Network for Advanced NMR Use Cases

Authored by Chris Bontempi. 

This brief document is a description of a few of the challenges involved in harvesting key information from scientific instruments spread across a wide geographical area with complex ownership concerns and diverse drivers of interest. The instrument context in this case is nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers, which attract usage across disciplines such as Biology, Chemistry, Material Science, and Metabolomics, among others; as well as significant variation in modalities and key areas of focus. Several use cases are followed by a summary of general considerations that help to frame some of the concerns of modern research infrastructure, data engineering, data sharing, and publication.