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ArticleIUCrJ2026

A picture is worth a thousand diffraction spots: using photometry and computer vision to perform rapid high-throughput sample-versatile serial crystallography.

Ben A Coulson, Sam G Lewis, Christian Orr, Lauren E Hatcher, David R Allan, Mark Warren

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Article in IUCrJ, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Ben A CoulsonDiamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-5115-2555
Sam G LewisDiamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, United Kingdom.ORCID 0009-0008-1572-3988
Christian OrrDiamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, United Kingdom.
Lauren E HatcherSchool of Chemistry, Cardiff University Main Building, Park Place, CF10 3AT, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-1549-9727
David R AllanDiamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-9670-1885
Mark WarrenDiamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-1326-0744

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Royal Society URF\R1\191104Royal Society URF\R\251017
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The `photometric selection' approach as a high throughput, sample tolerant, low cost and highly automatable method of carrying out serial crystallography is presented. Crystalline samples are loaded and distributed onto a simple transparent substrate and an in-line camera identifies crystals using image recognition algorithms from the computer vision project OpenCV. In contrast to established serial techniques, which generally require that crystal samples be refined with narrow size distributions and defined habits, the sample requirements when using photometric selection are shown to be minimal. We demonstrate how broadly effective photometric selection can be by collecting high-quality datasets from three exemplar systems: a small-molecule organometallic, a small-molecule organic and a metal-organic framework system. In contrast to previously established grid-scanning techniques, data collection using photometric selection can be up to six times faster.

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computer visionhigh throughputphotometryserial crystallography

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PMID42148736
PMCPMC13324597

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