KAUST Open Access Week 2024
Controlling experiments and recording FAIR data with NOMAD CAMELS – Demonstrating FAIR data pipelines
What is it all about?
NOMAD CAMELS (Configurable Application for Measurements, Experiments and Laboratory Systems) is an open-source measurement software that records FAIR and fully self-describing measurement data. It enables the definition of measurement protocols via a graphical user interface without requiring programming knowledge or deeper understanding of instrument communication. Coming from the field of experimental physics, CAMELS provides the flexibility of controlling a large variety of measurement instruments in frequently changing experimental setups. The user-defined measurement protocols are translated into stand-alone executable Python code, providing full transparency of the actual measurement sequences.
This hands-on tutorial demonstrates how to set up and control an experiment, and how to obtain FAIR experimental data using CAMELS.
We also show how automatic uploading and connectivity with ELNs enables simple research data pipelines.
Preparation
Please install NOMAD CAMELS on your own system (see our installation guide for instructions).
For Windows computers, you may simply download and run the NOMAD CAMELS installer.
Materials and exercises for the hands-on tutorial
- Step-by-step guide PDF: Exercises_KAUST_NOMAD CAMELS
- Evaluation in NOMAD
Single JV curve
Temperature dependent JV curves
Further information:
- NOMAD CAMELS webpage
- Documentation and instructions for installation and use
- GitHub repository
- A. D. Fuchs, J. A. F. Lehmeyer, H. Junkes, H. B. Weber, M. Krieger (2024). NOMAD CAMELS: Configurable Application for Measurements, Experiments and Laboratory Systems. Journal of Open Source Software, 9(95), 6371. DOI: 10.21105/joss.06371
Want to know more about NOMAD CAMELS? We look forward to hearing from you!
Write to lap-nomad-camels@fau.de or start a discussion on GitHub.
