Science Highlights

High Throughput Crystal Screening at HWI

a resource for HTS of crystallization conditions.

Our detector is gone!

It’s gone! We boxed up our Q315 yesterday and sent it back to ADSC for an upgrade to the Q315r model.     Essentially this is an upgrade to the amplifiers that read out the CCDs and the other associated electronics for getting the raw images to the detector computers for processing. The fiber optic…
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NIH now requires open-access to manuscripts

As of Monday April 7th – The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no…
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Crystals webapp Installed

The [crystals](http://bl1231.als.lbl.gov/crystals) server (an Apache Tomcat webapp) has been installed. The crystals webapp will allow you to upload an excel spreadsheet, containing a list of samples, to the SIBYLS beamline for use with DOMO. The spreadsheet will be automatically converted to an XML file and will become available to you via Blu-Ice once you start…
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Yeast Topoisomerase II bound to DNA

As recently [reported](http://www-als.lbl.gov/als/science/sci_archive/160topoII.html) in the ALSNews: > “The veil has finally been lifted on an enzyme that is critical to the process of DNA transcription and replication and is a prime target of antibacterial and anticancer drugs. Researchers at Berkeley Lab and the University of California, Berkeley, have produced the first three-dimensional structural images of…
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The Wonderful World of Early Computing

[Brief but interesting history of early computers](http://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/the-wonderful-world-of-early-computing/) > On September 9, 1945, U.S. Navy officer Grace Hopper found the first computer “bug”: a moth stuck between the relays on the Harvard Mark II. She noted it on her log as the “first actual case of bug being found.” Though the term “bug” had meant a…
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The Protein Data Bank now requires your experimental data

The Protein Data Bank is requiring, effective February 1, 2008 (i.e. tomorrow), that structure factor amplitudes/intensities for crystal structures [must be deposited](http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/static.do?p=general_information/news_publications/news/news_2007.html#20071204) along with model coordinates. So if you need some structure factors to go along with your PDBs we can help you out. Apply for beamtime via the red “[GENERAL USER PROPOSAL](http://www-als.lbl.gov/als/quickguide/independinvest.html)” link in…
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New DOMO Sample Dewar Lid

We’ve installed a sweet new blue anodized aluminum air dam on the pneumatic lid for the DOMO sample dewar (with color coordinated electric blue CPU fans). The air dam helps to draw off frozen ice crystals from the air above the liquid nitrogen when the dewar lid is open. This will hopefully prevent the ice…
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