[3dem] Homemade solutions for reporting from CryoSPARC Live session anyone?

[Paolo Swuec]

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for a practical workaround (or best practice) to generate a PDF report from a CryoSPARC Live session. In our facility, we routinely run overnight CryoSPARC Live sessions (almost every night) for both internal and external users. The next morning, we need a quick and consistent way to share results and general outcomes with users who may not have direct access to the CryoSPARC instance.

At the moment, there doesn’t seem to be a built-in way to export a structured report from a Live session, so we’re trying to understand how others are handling this. Ideally, the report should include:


  1.
Details  → Information
  2.
Configuration → Parameters (full acquisition and processing settings)
  3.
Overview plots (motion, CTF, ice thickness, etc.)
  4.
A selection of ~10 random micrographs with picks overlaid (points visible)
  5.
Picking settings (thresholds, model, parameters used)
  6.
2D classification results (PNG output or similar summary)

Our goal is to have something that: is easy to generate (preferably automated or one-click), is consistent across sessions, and can be shared as a standalone PDF with users. So far, I’ve experimented with: browser “Print to PDF” (not very clean or reproducible) and scripting with Playwright to capture the Live UI (works, but feels fragile). Before investing more time into custom tooling, I wanted to ask:


  *
Are there hidden/export features I might be missing?
  *
Has anyone built a custom reporting pipeline (e.g., via CryoSPARC Tools or scripts)?

Any suggestions or shared experiences would be really appreciated.

Thanks!

Paolo


 
Paolo Swuec
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Human Technopole
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