Last year, researchers at Indiana University's Cryo-Transmission Electron Microscopy Facility (cryoEM) acquired a powerful new microscope capable of electron cryomicroscopy, a method of analyzing the structure of proteins at really low temperatures. However, the process often damages samples so researchers have to use a large number to ensure accurate results. This in turn means multiple images from hundreds of thousands of protein particles which then need to be made into composite images, requiring thousands of hours of compute time. So the analysis, movement, and management of all these image files quickly became an IT headache almost as soon as they flipped the on switch