Dear colleageus, I would like to bring to your attention that as a result of a workshop on "Diffraction Data Collection Using Synchrotron Radiation" held last year, we have developed a tutorial for X-ray crystallography. The tutorial consists of five experiments, and contains all relevant information needed to reproduce the experiments. The sources of the chemicals are given, the procedures described in detail, the diffraction images provided and the path to structure solution outlined.
One may use the tutorial to teach X-ray crystallography within a practical course or in class, or interested students can work independently with the material to learn all the steps of structure determination by various methods. The five experiments are: 1) S-SAD on cubic insulin 2) Br-MAD on thaumatin 3) Molecular replacement on monoclinic lysozyme 4) Solvent ion identification in tetragonal lysozyme 5) Identification of a weakly bound ligand in lysozyme Except for experiment 2, data collection may also be performed on home sources. The tutorial has been described in a paper (open access) in the most recent issue of J. Appl. Cryst. See: http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S0021889808032494 All material can be downloaded from either one of the two sites: http://www.embl-hamburg.de/Xray_Tutorial/ http://www.mx.bessy.de/bessy-ws/bessy.html In case you want to use it or have used it already, I would of course appreciate any feedback, so that we can continue to improve it. With best wishes, Manfred Weiss (on behalf of the tutorial team) Annette Faust, Santosh Panjikar, Uwe Mueller, Venkat Parthasarathy, Andea Schmidt & Victor Lamzin. ******************************************************************** * * * Dr. Manfred S. Weiss * * * * Team Leader * * * * EMBL Hamburg Outstation Fon: +49-40-89902-170 * * c/o DESY, Notkestr. 85 Fax: +49-40-89902-149 * * D-22603 Hamburg Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * GERMANY Web: www.embl-hamburg.de/~msweiss/ * * * ********************************************************************
