Site Map

Home. SMB group home page.

• SSRL Beamlines
• Spear status
• Beamline support staff schedule
• Robosync. A mailing list dealing with automated sample mounting systems.
• Structural Molecular Biology at SSRL
• SSRL home page
• LCLS home page
• SLAC home page
• Stanford University home page
• Staff area. Secure site for SMB staff.

Facilities. Experimental facilities for users.

• Resource policies. Beamline use policies and rules for using heavy metals, cryogenics and compressed gases.
• Hardware. Beamline equipment available to users.
  • SAM. Stanford Automated Sample Mounting System.
  • SAM cassette loading tools.
  • SSRL cryotools.
  • Sample cryocooler.
  • Detectors.
  • Gas pressurization. Preparation of Xe and Kr derivatives.
  • Other hardware. Information on crystal offset, beamstops, heating shield, ice removal tool, microscopes and tool board items.
• Software. Beamline control and data analysis software.
  • Blu-Ice user documentation.
  • Web-Ice.
  • Mosflm and Scala tutorial.
  • HKL2000 tutorial.
  • XDS tutorial.
  • MAD scripts. Shell scripts to solve the structure by MAD or SAD.
  • COOT quick reference.
  • CCP4 documentation.
  • Crystallographic space group tables.
  • Other software: A complete list of software installed on SMB computers.
• Computing. Computing environment at the beamlines.
  • Computing account request form.
  • Password change form.
  • Remote Unix desktop. Remote access to the beamline software.
• Remote access.
  • User's guide to remote access.
  • Sample spreadsheet database. Web interface to spreadsheet uploads.
  • Remote Unix desktop.
  • Web-Ice. Web interface to experiments.

Staff. PX group directory.

• Beamline cell phones.

Links. Travel, accommodation, eating and other useful links for SSRL visitors.

• Trip Planning.
• Restaurants and Stores.
• Experiment Related.

User's guide.

• User's Guide (PDF).
• FAQ
• How to become an SSRL user
• Experiment policies
• On-site experiments
• Remote experiments
• Using the SAM system
• Data collection and processing
• Referencing SSRL
• Video tutorials

Schedule.

• Support Staff Schedule.
• Beam Line Schedule.
• Operating Schedule.
• SPEAR3 Status.
• Rapid Access Availability.

Forms. Forms and administration procedures.

• Requesting Beam Time.
• Becoming an SSRL user.
• Pre-Trip Requirements for On-Site Users.
• User Shipments.
• Check-in Process.
• End-of-Run Summary.
• Reporting Requirements.
• User Research Administration Database.
• Forms A-Z.

Research. Users'and staff research and developments.

• Science highlights. Exciting structures solved with data collected at SSRL.
• Developments.
  • Blu-Ice/DCS.User and developer documentation.
  • The Web-Ice project.
  • SAM robot.
  • Remote access tools.
  • Xe-Kr pressure cell.
  • X-ray sensing beamstop.
  • MAD scripts. Shell scripts to solve structures by SAD or MAD.
• Staff publications.
• User publications.
• Student projects.

News. News and announcements.

• RapiData course
• SSRL Headlines.
• SLAC Today.
• Stanford Report.