NOBUGS 2026

The K04 project is an ultra-high throughput beamline project for XChem at Diamond Light Source (DLS) that aims to shift the scientific scope of crystallographic fragment screening by harnessing the increased brilliance of synchrotron light and high levels of automation (Fearon et al, 2025). This work describes some of the recent advancements in the automated data analysis of crystallographic...

The OSCARS project represents a unique European collaboration that unites Research Infrastructures across the European Science Clusters (SCs) representing the key domains: environmental research, physics and astronomy, photon and neutron, social, and life sciences. At its core, OSCARS focuses on promoting open science and FAIR data principles and addresses this challenge by three primary...

HEPS is scheduled to complete construction and enter operation in 2026. During operation, HEPS will generate massive, heterogeneous, and highly time-sensitive experimental datasets. Experimental workflows such as tomography imaging, diffraction and scattering analysis, and spectroscopy processing require large-scale data reconstruction, complex software environments, and intensive interactive...

At ESRF, tomography data processing is supported by a modular software ecosystem designed to connect acquisition, raw data standardization, reconstruction, visualization, automation, and online data availability. Tomotools, brings together several complementary components used across ESRF tomography beamlines to provide users with reliable and reproducible processing workflows.

The chain...

Light sources facilities depend on HDF5 to manage rapidly growing experimental datasets. At the same time, modern data analysis demand higher I/O performance, greater robustness for long-running acquisitions, improved interoperability with legacy scientific formats, efficient support for irregular data, and stronger data protection. This talk presents recent advances in HDF5 software inspired...

Modern beamlines and experimental endstations frequently require rapid integration of heterogeneous devices, ad-hoc analysis pipelines, and temporary control-system extensions. While large facility frameworks provide robust infrastructure, researchers and instrument scientists often still face the practical challenge of connecting new detectors, processing live data streams, or exposing...

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment are well established modern software development and deployment practices that greatly enhance software quality and development velocity.
They ensure that defects are found much earlier in the software development lifecycle, allow exhaustive testing of software on a wide variety of platforms. This poster presents the experiences gained...

Data derived from photon and neutron experiments are key to many scientific breakthroughs across disciplines ranging from medicine to engineering. Developments in data sources, instrumentation, and detectors lead to rapidly growing data volumes of increased complexity. These developments present both great opportunities and significant challenges to the community. Addressing them requires...

Effective data management infrastructure is essential to keep research data accessible, efficiently processed, and reusable.
This contribution presents the design and implementation data management solution adopted for European XFEL,
which delivers advanced data services through a four layer storage architecture, each addressing specific data handling challenges.

The Online storage layer...

The Endeavour programme [1] at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source will see both new and upgraded instruments brought online in the coming few years. With the use of new detector technology, projected increased data rates and a desire to collect much more data in event mode adapting the existing acquisition system components was judged impractical.

To address these challenges we are adopting...

The Beamline and Experiment Control (BEC) is a new solution for beamline operations developed for the Swiss Light Source upgrade (SLS 2.0) at the Paul Scherrer Institute.

We present a deployment strategy for BEC components and utility services, leveraging on-premise Gitea workflows, runners, and Ansible roles/playbooks. Gitea workflows orchestrate automated deployments, integrating version...

DonkiOrchestra is a data collection and experiment management framework developed at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste that takes full advantage of the ZeroMQ distributed messaging system. The intrinsic asynchronicity of its advanced software trigger-driven approach allows for concurrency and map-reduce strategies. The software architecture is extremely tunable and scalable, it can meet the needs...

The adoption of FAIR data principles in Photon and Neutron (PaN) science is promoted by the DAPHNE4NFDI consortium as part of German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) initiative. In the framework of the X-Ray Reflectivity use case, a FAIR data workflow has been established at beamline P08 at PETRA III, DESY. Dedicated data reduction and analysis packages are provided for the liquid...

X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) such as SwissFEL produce extremely intense, ultrashort X-ray pulses that enable experiments probing matter on the femtosecond timescale and Angstrom length scale. Unlike storage-ring light sources, XFEL pulses exhibit significant pulse-to-pulse variations in properties such as intensity, spectrum and arrival time. In addition, many experiments operate in...

FAIR data management at large-scale research facilities requires more than high-level principles: it depends on practical workflows that connect planning, metadata quality, traceability, data reduction, archiving, access, and reuse. At European XFEL, myMdC is being developed as the production service through which these requirements can progressively be translated into operational...

Recent advancements in cloud-based architectures are transforming control systems in large-scale scientific facilities. At J-PARC MLF, the instrument control framework IROHA2 has been widely adopted for neutron experiments across many instruments. Although it has served as a standard framework for over a decade, its tightly coupled, synchronous communication model limits flexibility, making it...

DESY accelerator and beamline GUI applications have evolved over many years and now cover a mix of technologies.
These technologies range from older Windows ActiveX, to .NET, Java-, and Python-based, as well as modern web frameworks like React, with specific cases of using LabView and MATLAB GUI tools.
Some of these solutions depend on proprietary software or heavyweight runtimes such as...

Single-particle imaging (SPI) experiments at European XFEL generate massive volumes of data that require fast and reliable pre-processing for efficient experiment optimization and further downstream analysis.
In this contribution, we present the in-house developed SPI pipeline, which is available to the users of European XFEL. This is deployed in both online and offline settings, and includes...

The neutron macromolecular crystallography instrument (NMX) at the European Spallation Source (ESS), is now under cold commissioning. As ESS evaluates user interface options for NMX scientific users, MXCuBE-Web — the latest generation of the widely adopted data acquisition software MXCuBE (Macromolecular Xtallography Customized Beamline Environment) — has been selected as the primary UI,...

Experimental and operational activities at European XFEL depend on timely communication between instrument scientists, users, and support teams. While electronic logbooks have traditionally served as passive records, day-to-day facility operation requires a platform that also supports structured communication, coordinated team access, and automated information flow.

This contribution...

Automated data analysis at synchrotron beamlines is often limited by the
complexity of managing many processing parameters across large sets of related
measurements. Although the conversion of raw detector data into physically
meaningful representations is largely deterministic, existing approaches
typically embed parameter handling directly in analysis scripts, making
automation,...

The OSCARS project represents a unique European collaboration that unites Research Infrastructures across the European Science Clusters (SCs) representing the key domains: environmental research, physics and astronomy, photon and neutron, social, and life sciences. At its core, OSCARS focuses on promoting open science and FAIR data principles and addresses this challenge by three primary...

Machine learning (ML) tools hold the promise of transforming scientific research by accelerating analysis and enabling new experimental capabilities, including real-time data analysis, informed decision-making during measurements, optimized experimental conditions, and ultimately closed-loop experimental workflows. While the development of functional algorithms represents an important step,...

SIRIUS is the 4th generation synchrotron facility operated by LNLS/CNPEM, with multiple beamlines currently in operation and others under commissioning. To support the growing need for scalable, maintainable, and user-centered experiment control interfaces across these beamlines, sophys-web was developed as a monorepo for building web applications integrated with the SIRIUS Ophyd and Bluesky...

The increasingly large volumes of data generated at different synchrotron sources, such as PETRA III and the European XFEL, require a crucial shift from traditional bulk data transfers toward remote and slice-based selective data access. As part of the PHOTONIC (Photon Science - Harmonized Online Tools for Open, Navigable, Interactive Computing Framework) project, this work focuses on...

Online analysis refers to data analysis pipelines based on processing of live data streams in near-real-time during an experiment. Such analysis provides rapid feedback, helping in understanding outcomes and optimizing steering of the experiment. At European XFEL, the high data rates generated by MHz detectors make live data processing challenging in terms of both computational intensity as...

It is essential to have effective tools to diagnose emerging issues for the stable operation of control systems in a large experimental facility. This task becomes even more challenging in distributed systems, as the source of problems may appear in different subsystems and at different times.

The control system at MAX IV is based on Tango Controls, and several tools are used for monitoring...

Description

As baseline for a satisfaction of the FAIR4RS principles, research software must be published with metadata in publication repositories that assign persistent identifiers and make the metadata accessible. Additionally, published software metadata must be correct, and rich enough to further improve findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability. Metadata curation...

Recent advances in coherent hard X-ray sources, including X-ray free-electron lasers and diffraction-limited storage rings, have significantly expanded the capabilities of X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) for probing protein and molecular dynamics over length scales from angstroms to micrometers. The unique burst-mode pulse structure at the European X-ray Free Electron Laser...