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Welcome to the Network for Advanced NMR (NAN)
What is NAN?
NAN is a collaborative initiative involving the Gregory P. Mullen Structural Biology Facility at UConn Health, the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (CCRC) at UGA, and the National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison (NMRFAM) at UW-Madison. Its mission is to democratize the utilization of high-field NMR in biomedicine, materials science, and chemistry and provide data stewardship through the NAN Archive. NAN offers open-access to two 1.1 GHz NMR instruments specialized for solids (UW-Madison) and solutions (UGA), along with a roster of additional NMR instruments at the three participating institutions and is expanding to add additional facilities in 2025.
NAN provides a suite of four Knowledgebases (KBs) in Bio Solids, Material Solids, Bio Solution, and Metabolomics that comprehensively guide users through all stages of an NMR experiment; sample preparation, vetted pulse programs, experimental setup, and data processing and analysis. Through the NAN portal, users can discover facilities, instruments, and KB resources to help users of all experience levels utilize NMR in their research. On the portal, dashboards provide data input forms for (1) facility staff to enter facility and instrument information, (2) principal investigators to create projects and manage lab members, and (3) a virtual network operations center for monitoring NAN. A distinguishing feature is the NAN Data Transport System (NDTS), which harvests experimental data and archives it in a secure repository. Datasets are linked with rich metadata such as instrument, parameters, user, project, sample, and other information. Users view and manipulate data in an advanced data browser where they can edit experiments, add notes, classify experiments, and organize data into projects, studies, and collections. PIs own data collected in their lab and control access. Users can create detailed sample records and link samples with datasets.
NAN Resources
The NAN portal is composed of a Resource Connector which is accessible publicly as well as pages for Facility Dashboard, Lab Administration, Ultra-High-Field (UHF) Access, and an advanced Category:Data Browser for organizing, searching, and viewing datasets and samples. In addition, a virtual Network Operations Center (vNOC) provides Operations Dashboards for the public, users, PIs, and facility managers providing near real-time status of the network and rich metrics. NAN provides the NAN Data Transport System (NDTS) which provides a fully-configurable system for automatically harvesting datasets from Varian and Bruker NMR spectrometers.
Help & Support
Support Tickets
Support tickets may be created from within the NAN Portal by selecting the NMRhub widget in the top right corner of all NAN portal pages, entering a message, and selecting Submit. This is ideal as your NMRhub username and what page you are submitting the ticket from is included in the message automatically. However, support tickets may also be generated by sending an email to support@usnan.org
FAQ
A FAQ page on this wiki provides answers to frequently asked questions
Wiki Documentation
This wiki provides the written documentation for the NAN portal
