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User's Guide to Macromolecular Crystallography Experiments at SSRL

  • How to become an SSRL user
    • Writing a proposal
    • Beamtime requests
    • Other requirements

  • Experiment policies
    • Beamtime shifts schedule
    • User responsibilities
    • Off-line use of computer resources
    • Use of the SAM robot for sorting samples between cassettes and/or unipucks
    • Heavy metal use
    • Propane and ethane use
    • Liquid nitrogen use
    • Compressed gas experiments

  • On-site experiments
    • On-site safety protocols
    • Safety in the experimental hutch
    • Mounting samples
    • Making room to safely mount samples
    • Mounting samples in the cryostream.
    • Mounting crystals in capillaries
    • Sample illumination
    • Checking out

  • Remote experiments
    • Preparing a remote experiment
    • Remote data collection
    • Remote experiment support

  • Using the SSRL Automated Mounting (SAM) system
    • Sample pin selection and preparation
    • Loading and shipping SSRL cassettes
    • Loading and shipping Uni-Pucks
    • Storing sample information: The Excel spreadsheet

  • Data collection and processing
    • Automated crystal screening
    • Setting up and starting data collection
    • Data processing

  • Referencing SSRL
    • References to supported software/hardware

  • Frequently Answered Questions
    • Data collection
    • Sample mounting
    • Detectors
    • Determining data collection strategy
    • Problems during data collection
    • Data processing and graphics software
    • Remote access
    • Computers

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Last modified:Wednesday, 07-Oct-2009 18:52:05 PDT.