News from the Structural Biology Group
Up one levelFirst beam taken on BM29
The new highly automated Structural Biology SAXS beamline located at BM29 has taken its first beam…
First beam taken on ID30
The new MASSIF beamlines for Structural Biology located at ID30 have taken their first beam…
Bio-SAXS beamline news
ID14-3 bio-SAXS beamline will remain open until December 2011. …
Pilatus 6M integration on ID29
The newly installed pixel detector Pilatus 6M operates in shutterless mode. …
New apertures on ID23-1 (of 10, 20, 30, 50 microns)
Apertures are now accessible from the hutch TAB in expert mode.…
Burn strategy in EDNA
Automatically characterise the sensitivity of your crystals to radiation by sacrificing a crystal or part of a crystal.…
Autoproc
is now accessible to all academic users and industrials members of the Global phasing consortium.…
New Remote access scripts
New icons are available that allow any user in remote access to open all necessary software for the experiment on the beamline of choice by double clicking on the desktop icon with several passwords prompts.…
New file architecture on all beamlines (except ID29)
A new file architecture has been implemented on the beamlines to separate Raw data from processed data in order to facilitate data backup.…
Auto processing results are now displayed in ISPyB
The results of autoprocessing are now displayed with the data in ISPyB. …
DNA Tab removed from MXCuBE
The DNA tab has been removed from MXCuBE to make way for EDNA on-line data analysis and data collection strategy that uses the measured flux on the beamline to account for radiation damage.…
Dehydration Device
The dehydration device (HC1b) is available on 14-1 and can dramatically improve the diffraction characteristics of some crystals.…
EDNA now embedded in MXCuBE
The online data analysis package EDNA is now embedded in MXCuBE. EDNA is the latest version of DNA that now accounts for the flux in real time and uses this information to calculate the optimum data collection strategy without radiation damage.…
Helical data collection and mesh scan interface in MXcube
The helical data collection protocol and mesh scans are now implemented in the 'hutch' tab of MXCuBE on all beamlines.…