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Xi-cam: a versatile interface for data visualization and analysis...

by Ronald Pandolfi, Daniel Allan, Elke Arenholz, Singanallur V Venkatakrishnan, Alexander Hexemer
Publication Type
Journal
Journal Name
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
Publication Date
Page Numbers
1261 to 1270
Volume
25
Issue
4

Xi-cam is an extensible platform for data management, analysis and visualization. Xi-cam aims to provide a flexible and extensible approach to synchrotron data treatment as a solution to rising demands for high-volume/high-throughput processing pipelines. The core of Xi-cam is an extensible plugin-based graphical user interface platform which provides users with an interactive interface to processing algorithms. Plugins are available for SAXS/WAXS/GISAXS/GIWAXS, tomography and NEXAFS data. With Xi-cam's `advanced' mode, data processing steps are designed as a graph-based workflow, which can be executed live, locally or remotely. Remote execution utilizes high-performance computing or de-localized resources, allowing for the effective reduction of high-throughput data. Xi-cam's plugin-based architecture targets cross-facility and cross-technique collaborative development, in support of multi-modal analysis. Xi-cam is open-source and cross-platform, and available for download on GitHub.