You would hope one learns something from failed experiments. I feel prehistoric now after Liz comment. Jürgen
...................... Jürgen Bosch Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute 615 North Wolfe Street, W8708 Baltimore, MD 21205 Phone: +1-410-614-4742 Lab: +1-410-614-4894 Fax: +1-410-955-3655 http://web.mac.com/bosch_lab/ On Feb 17, 2012, at 8:30, "jens Preben Morth" <j.p.mo...@ncmm.uio.no> wrote: > After putting up your quote in the lab, a student quickly replied "To do > and fail is to remember and to understand" :-) > > On 2/17/12 1:43 PM, Harry Powell wrote: >> Hi >> >> In addition to what Poul and Graeme have said, it may be worthwhile >> attending one of the fine protein crystallography schools that are run, >> where you will hear lectures on integration& scaling etc that attempt to >> explain the basics of what's being done, and probably have a couple of >> practical sessions where you get to use the programs under the watchful eye >> of an expert. Or you could ask someone who has taught on (or attended) one >> of these schools if you could see their lecture slides and notes... >> >> "to read is to forget, to write is to remember, to do is to understand" . >> >> On 17 Feb 2012, at 11:31, Theresa H. Hsu wrote: >> >>> Dear crystallographers >>> >>> I would like to get some opinion. For someone beginning to learn basic >>> crystallography including indexing, scaling ..., should I start with >>> automated tool like Xia2? Or is manual method for each step better for >>> learning? >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >>> Theresa >> Harry >> -- >> Dr Harry Powell, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MRC Centre, Hills >> Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QH > > -- > J. Preben Morth, Ph.D > Group Leader > Membrane Transport Group > Nordic EMBL Partnership > Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM) > University of Oslo > P.O.Box 1137 Blindern > 0318 Oslo, Norway > > Email: j.p.mo...@ncmm.uio.no > Tel: +47 2284 0794 > > http://www.jpmorth.dk
