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Structure Validation in Phenix
08 Apr 2015 | Teaching Materials
Paul Adams describes how to use the Phenix crystallographic software package to assess the accuracy of crystallographic models.
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Structure Refinement in Phenix
08 Apr 2015 | Teaching Materials
Pavel Afonine describes an introduction to crystallographic structure refinement, structure refinement with Phenix.refine, and real space refinement tools for CryoEM and low resolution X-ray data
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Molecular Replacement in Phenix
08 Apr 2015 | Teaching Materials
Paul Adams describes molecular replacement methods to solve the phase problem of crystallography and how to evaluate success in Phenix. He also describes the latest advances in Phenix molecular replacement methods.
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Experimental Phasing
08 Apr 2015 | Teaching Materials
Tom Terwilliger introduces experimental phasing techniques for X-ray crystallography and describes recent developments in SAD phasing using the Phenix software package.
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Expression platforms for producing eukaryotic proteins: a comparison of E. coli cell-based and wheat germ cell-free synthesis, affinity and solubility tags, and cloning strategies
08 Apr 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): David J. Aceti, Craig A. Bingman, Russell L. Wrobel, Ronnie O. Frederick, Shin-ichi Makino, Karl W. Nichols, Sarata C. Sahu, Lai F. Bergeman, Paul G. Blommel, Claudia C. Cornilescu, Katarzyna A. Gromek, Kory D. Seder, Soyoon Hwang, John G. Primm, Grzegorz Sabat, Frank C. Vojtik, Brian F. Volkman, Zsolt Zolnai, George Phillips, John L. Markley, Brian G. Fox
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10969-015-9198-1 David J. Aceti and Craig A. Bingman and Russell L. Wrobel and Ronnie O. Frederick and Shin-ichi Makino and Karl W. Nichols and Sarata C. Sahu and Lai F. Bergeman and Paul G. Blommel and Claudia C. Cornilescu and Katarzyna A. Gromek and Kory D. Seder and …
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Making water-soluble integral membrane proteins in vivo using an amphipathic protein fusion strategy
08 Apr 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Dario Mizrachi, Yujie Chen, Jiayan Liu, Hwei-Ming Peng, Ailong Ke, Lois Pollack, Raymond J. Turner, Richard J. Auchus, Matthew P. DeLisa
journal-article http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7826 Mizrachi, D. et al., 2015. Making water-soluble integral membrane proteins in vivo using an amphipathic protein fusion strategy. Nature Communications, 6, p.6826. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7826.
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Phase Retrieval with Application to Optical Imaging: A contemporary overview
03 Apr 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Yoav Shechtman, Yonina C. Eldar, Oren Cohen, Henry Chapman, Jianwei Miao, Mordechai Segev
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/msp.2014.2352673 Yoav Shechtman and Yonina C. Eldar and Oren Cohen and Henry Nicholas Chapman and Jianwei Miao and Mordechai Segev Shechtman, Y. et al., 2015. Phase Retrieval with Application to Optical Imaging: A contemporary overview. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, …
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2015 Phenix Workshop at Rice University
03 Apr 2015 | Workshops | Contributor(s): Tom Grant, George Phillips
The Gulf Coast Consortia, BioXFEL, and Rice University present an instructional workshop on Phenix, the Python-based Hierarchical Environment for Intergrated Xtallography. Topics include experimental phasing, molecular replacement, model refinement and structure validation.
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Critical assessment of the emission spectra of various photosystem II core complexes
03 Apr 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Jinhai Chen, Adam Kell, Khem Acharya, Christopher Kupitz, Petra Fromme, Ryszard Jankowiak
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11120-015-0128-7 Jinhai Chen and Adam Kell and Khem Acharya and Christopher Kupitz and Petra Fromme and Ryszard Jankowiak Chen, J. et al., 2015. Critical assessment of the emission spectra of various photosystem II core complexes. Photosynthesis Research, 124(3), …
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stream2stats
01 Apr 2015 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Tom Grant
'stream2stats' makes quick work of calculating a variety of merging statistics from SFX data and plotting them
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Hit Rate Calculator
01 Apr 2015 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Tom Grant
Data Analysis Scripts 'hits' is a python script that can be used to quickly calculate hits and hit rates from a series of different experimental runs from an SFX experiment when using Cheetah for hit finding. It uses Cheetah's frames.txt file to calculate hits. By default it will use your own …
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peakogram
01 Apr 2015 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Tom Grant
'peakogram' is a script to plot a 2D histogram of peak intensities from SFX data. Using the Cheetah peaks.txt file from hit finding results, it will plot peak intensity as a function of resolution in pixels, binned by the number of peaks. This plot can be useful for estimating resolution, …
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Integrative, dynamic structural biology at atomic resolution—it's about time
31 Mar 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Henry Van Den Bedem, James Fraser
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3324 Henry van den Bedem and James S Fraser Van den Bedem, H. & Fraser, J.S., 2015. Integrative, dynamic structural biology at atomic resolution—it’s about time. Nat Meth, 12(4), pp.307–318. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3324.
NSF-STC Biology …
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Two disparate ligand-binding sites in the human P2Y1 receptor
30 Mar 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Dandan Zhang, Zhan-Guo Gao, Kaihua Zhang, Evgeny Kiselev, Steven Crane, Jiang Wang, Silvia Paoletta, Cuiying Yi, Limin Ma, Wenru Zhang, Gye Won Han, Hong Liu, Vadim Cherezov, Vsevolod Katritch, Hualiang Jiang, Raymond C. Stevens, Kenneth A. Jacobson, Qiang Zhao, Beili Wu
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature14287 Dandan Zhang and Zhan-Guo Gao and Kaihua Zhang and Evgeny Kiselev and Steven Crane and Jiang Wang and Silvia Paoletta and Cuiying Yi and Limin Ma and Wenru Zhang and Gye Won Han and Hong Liu and Vadim Cherezov and Vsevolod Katritch and Hualiang Jiang and …
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Unique patterns of transcript and miRNA expression in the South American strong voltage electric eel (Electrophorus electricus)
25 Mar 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Lindsay L Traeger, Jeremy D Volkening, Howell Moffett, Jason R Gallant, Po-Hao Chen, Carl D Novina, George Phillips, Rene Anand, Gregg B Wells, Matthew Pinch, Robert Güth, Graciela A Unguez, James S Albert, Harold Zakon, Michael R Sussman, Manoj P Samanta
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-015-1288-8 Lindsay L Traeger and Jeremy D Volkening and Howell Moffett and Jason R Gallant and Po-Hao Chen and Carl D Novina and George N Phillips and Rene Anand and Gregg B Wells and Matthew Pinch and Robert Güth and Graciela A Unguez and James S Albert and Harold …
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Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching in Lipidic Cubic Phase (LCP-FRAP)
22 Mar 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Gustavo Fenalti, Enrique E. Abola, Chong Wang, Beili Wu, Vadim Cherezov
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.mie.2014.12.008 Gustavo Fenalti and Enrique E. Abola and Chong Wang and Beili Wu and Vadim Cherezov Fenalti, G. et al., 2015. Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching in Lipidic Cubic Phase (LCP-FRAP). Membrane Proteins—Engineering, Purification and Crystallization, …
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High Throughput Protein Nanocrystal Fractionation in a Microfluidic Sorter
20 Mar 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Bahige G. Abdallah, Shatabdi Roy-Chowdhury, Jesse David Coe, Petra Fromme, Alexandra Ros
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.5b00589 Bahige G. Abdallah and Shatabdi Roy-Chowdhury and Jesse Coe and Petra Fromme and Alexandra Ros Abdallah, B.G. et al., 2015. High Throughput Protein Nanocrystal Fractionation in a Microfluidic Sorter. Anal. Chem., 87(8), pp.4159–4167. Available at: …
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Mapping the Conformational Landscape of a Dynamic Enzyme by XFEL and Multitemperature Crystallography
20 Mar 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Daniel A Keedy, Lillian R Kenner, Matthew Warkentin, Rahel Woldeyes, Michael Thompson, Aaron S Brewster, Andrew H Van Benschoten, Elizabeth L Baxter, Jesse B Hopkins, Monarin Uervirojnangkoorn, Scott E McPhillps, Jinhu Song, Roberto Alonso-Mori, James Holton, William I Weis, Axel T Brunger, S. Michael Soltis, Henrik Lemke, Ana Gonzalez, Nicholas K Sauter, Aina E Cohen, Henry Van Den Bedem, Robert E Thorne, James Fraser
Determining the interconverting conformations of dynamic proteins in atomic detail is a major challenge for structural biology. Conformational heterogeneity in the active site of the dynamic enzyme cyclophilin A (CypA) has been previously linked to its catalytic function. Here we compare the …
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Solution to the phase problem for surface X-ray diffraction
14 Mar 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): P.F. Lyman, V.L. Shneerson, R. Fung, R.J. Harder, S.S. Parihar, H.T. Johnson-Steigelman, D.K. Saldin
http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/s0108767308096505 journal-article Lyman, P.F. et al., 2008. Solution to the phase problem for surface X-ray diffraction. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography, 64(a1), pp.C109–C109. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/s0108767308096505.
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GPCR structure, function, drug discovery and crystallography: report from Academia-Industry International Conference (UK Royal Society) Chicheley Hall, 1–2 September 2014
13 Mar 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Alexander Heifetz, Gebhard F.X. Schertler, Roland Seifert, Christopher G. Tate, Patrick M. Sexton, Vsevolod V. Gurevich, Daniel Fourmy, Vadim Cherezov, Fiona H. Marshall, R. Ian Storer, Isabel Moraes, Irina G. Tikhonova, Christofer S. Tautermann, Peter Hunt, Tom Ceska, Simon Hodgson, Mike J. Bodkin, Shweta Singh, Richard J. Law, Philip C. Biggin
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00210-015-1111-8 Alexander Heifetz and Gebhard F. X. Schertler and Roland Seifert and Christopher G. Tate and Patrick M. Sexton and Vsevolod V. Gurevich and Daniel Fourmy and Vadim Cherezov and Fiona H. Marshall and R. Ian Storer and Isabel Moraes and Irina G. Tikhonova …
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Fabrication of wedged multilayer Laue lenses
12 Mar 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): M. Prasciolu, A. F. G. Leontowich, J. Krzywinski, A. Andrejczuk, H. N. Chapman, S. Bajt
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ome.5.000748 M. Prasciolu and A. F. G. Leontowich and J. Krzywinski and A. Andrejczuk and H. N. Chapman and S. Bajt Prasciolu, M. et al., 2015. Fabrication of wedged multilayer Laue lenses. Opt. Mater. Express, 5(4), p.748. Available at: …
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Purification and assembly of thermostable Cy5 labeled γ-PNAs into a 3D DNA nanocage
11 Mar 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Justin D Flory, Trey Johnson, Chad R Simmons, Su Lin, Giovanna Ghirlanda, Petra Fromme
http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/1949095x.2014.992181 journal-article Flory, J.D. et al., 2014. Purification and assembly of thermostable Cy5 labeled γ-PNAs into a 3D DNA nanocage. Artificial DNA: PNA & XNA, 5(3), p.e992181. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/1949095x.2014.992181.
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Structure of CPV17 polyhedrin determined by the improved analysis of serial femtosecond crystallographic data
09 Mar 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Helen M. Ginn, Marc Messerschmidt, Xiaoyun Ji, Hanwen Zhang, Danny Axford, Richard J. Gildea, Graeme Winter, Aaron S. Brewster, Johan Hattne, Armin Wagner, Jonathan M. Grimes, Gwyndaf Evans, Nicholas K. Sauter, Geoff Sutton, David I. Stuart
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7435 Helen M. Ginn and Marc Messerschmidt and Xiaoyun Ji and Hanwen Zhang and Danny Axford and Richard J. Gildea and Graeme Winter and Aaron S. Brewster and Johan Hattne and Armin Wagner and Jonathan M. Grimes and Gwyndaf Evans and Nicholas K. Sauter and Geoff Sutton …
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Biostructural Science Inspired by Next-Generation X-Ray Sources
06 Mar 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Sol M. Gruner, Eaton E Lattman
http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-biophys-060414-033813
Sol M. Gruner and Eaton E. Lattman
Gruner, S.M. & Lattman, E.E., 2015. Biostructural Science Inspired by Next-Generation X-Ray Sources. Annual Review of Biophysics, 44(1), pp.33–51. Available at: …
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Investigation of femtosecond collisional ionization rates in a solid-density aluminium plasma
03 Mar 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): S. M. Vinko, O. Ciricosta, T. R. Preston, D. S. Rackstraw, C.R.D. Brown, T. Burian, J. Chalupský, B. I. Cho, H.-K. Chung, K. Engelhorn, R. W. Falcone, R. Fiokovinini, V. Hájková, P. A. Heimann, L. Juha, H. J. Lee, R. W. Lee, M. Messerschmidt, B. Nagler, W. Schlotter, J. J. Turner, L. Vysin, U. Zastrau, J. S. Wark
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7397 S. M. Vinko and O. Ciricosta and T. R. Preston and D. S. Rackstraw and C.R.D. Brown and T. Burian and J. Chalupský and B. I. Cho and H.-K. Chung and K. Engelhorn and R. W. Falcone and R. Fiokovinini and V. Hájková and P. A. Heimann and L. Juha and H. J. Lee …
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Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of the Giant Mimivirus Particle with an X-Ray Free-Electron Laser
02 Mar 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Tomas Ekeberg, Martin Svenda, Chantal Abergel, Filipe R. N. C. Maia, Virginie Seltzer, Jean-Michel Claverie, Max Hantke, Olof Jönsson, Carl Nettelblad, Gijs Van Der Schot, Mengning Liang, Daniel P. DePonte, Anton Barty, M. Marvin Seibert, Bianca Iwan, Inger Andersson, N. Duane Loh, Andrew V. Martin, Henry Chapman, Christoph Bostedt, John D. Bozek, Ken R. Ferguson, Jacek Krzywinski, Sascha W. Epp, Daniel Rolles, Artem Rudenko, Robert Hartmann, Nils Kimmel, Janos Hajdu
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.114.098102 Tomas Ekeberg and Martin Svenda and Chantal Abergel and Filipe R. N. C. Maia and Virginie Seltzer and Jean-Michel Claverie and Max Hantke and Olof Jönsson and Carl Nettelblad and Gijs van der Schot and Mengning Liang and Daniel P. DePonte and …
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Coronavirus envelope (E) protein remains at the site of assembly
26 Feb 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Pavithra Venkatagopalan, Sasha M. Daskalova, Lisa A. Lopez, Kelly A. Dolezal, Brenda Hogue
journal-article http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2015.02.005 Venkatagopalan, P. et al., 2015. Coronavirus envelope (E) protein remains at the site of assembly. Virology, 478, pp.75–85. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2015.02.005.
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Toxicity of Eosinophil MBP Is Repressed by Intracellular Crystallization and Promoted by Extracellular Aggregation
26 Feb 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Alice Soragni, Shida Yousefi, Christina Stoeckle, Angela B. Soriaga, Michael R. Sawaya, Evelyne Kozlowski, Inès Schmid, Susanne Radonjic-Hoesli, Sebastien Boutet, Garth J. Williams, Marc Messerschmidt, M. Marvin Seibert, Duilio Cascio, Nadia A. Zatsepin, Manfred Burghammer, Christian Riekel, Jacques-Philippe Colletier, Roland Riek, David S. Eisenberg, Hans-Uwe Simon
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2015.01.026 Alice Soragni and Shida Yousefi and Christina Stoeckle and Angela B. Soriaga and Michael R. Sawaya and Evelyne Kozlowski and Inès Schmid and Susanne Radonjic-Hoesli and Sebastien Boutet and Garth J. Williams and Marc Messerschmidt and M. Marvin …
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Protein dielectrophoresis and the link to dielectric properties
20 Feb 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Fernanda Camacho-Alanis, Alexandra Ros
http://dx.doi.org/10.4155/bio.14.306 Fernanda Camacho-Alanis and Alexandra Ros Camacho-Alanis, F. & Ros, A., 2015. Protein dielectrophoresis and the link to dielectric properties. Bioanalysis, 7(3), pp.353–371. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.4155/bio.14.306.
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Indications of radiation damage in ferredoxin microcrystals using high-intensity X-FEL beams
16 Feb 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Karol Nass, Lutz Foucar, Thomas R. M. Barends, Elisabeth Hartmann, Sabine Botha, Robert L. Shoeman, R. Bruce Doak, Roberto Alonso-Mori, Andrew Aquila, Saša Bajt, Anton Barty, Richard Bean, Kenneth R. Beyerlein, Maike Bublitz, Nikolaj Drachmann, Jonas Gregersen, H. Olof Jönsson, Wolfgang Kabsch, Stephan Kassemeyer, Jason E. Koglin, Michael Krumrey, Daniel Mattle, Marc Messerschmidt, Poul Nissen, Linda Reinhard, Oleg Sitsel, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Garth J. Williams, Stefan Hau-Riege, Nicusor Timneanu, Carl Caleman, Henry Chapman, Sébastien Boutet, Ilme Schlichting
Proteins that contain metal cofactors are expected to be highly radiation sensitive since the degree of X-ray absorption correlates with the presence of high-atomic-number elements and X-ray energy. To explore the effects of local damage in serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX),Clostridium …
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Structural basis for bifunctional peptide recognition at human δ-opioid receptor
16 Feb 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Gustavo Fenalti, Nadia Zatsepin, Cecilia Betti, Patrick Giguere, Gye Won Han, Andrii Ishchenko, Wei Liu, Karel Guillemyn, Haitao Zhang, Daniel James, Dingjie Wang, Uwe Weierstall, John Spence, Sébastien Boutet, Marc Messerschmidt, Garth J Williams, Cornelius Gati, Oleksandr M Yefanov, Thomas A White, Dominik Oberthuer, Markus Metz, Chun Hong Yoon, Anton Barty, Henry Chapman, Shibom Basu, Jesse David Coe, Chelsie E Conrad, Raimund Fromme, Petra Fromme, Dirk Tourwé, Peter W Schiller, Bryan L Roth, Steven Ballet, Vsevolod Katritch, Raymond C Stevens, Vadim Cherezov
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.2965 Gustavo Fenalti and Nadia A Zatsepin and Cecilia Betti and Patrick Giguere and Gye Won Han and Andrii Ishchenko and Wei Liu and Karel Guillemyn and Haitao Zhang and Daniel James and Dingjie Wang and Uwe Weierstall and John C H Spence and Sébastien Boutet and …
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Direct Phasing of Finite Crystals Illuminated with a Free-Electron Laser
12 Feb 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Richard Kirian, Richard J. Bean, Kenneth R. Beyerlein, Miriam Barthelmess, Chun Hong Yoon, Fenglin Wang, Flavio Capotondi, Emanuele Pedersoli, Anton Barty, Henry Chapman
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevx.5.011015
Richard A. Kirian and Richard J. Bean and Kenneth R. Beyerlein and Miriam Barthelmess and Chun Hong Yoon and Fenglin Wang and Flavio Capotondi and Emanuele Pedersoli and Anton Barty and Henry N. Chapman
Kirian, R.A. et al., 2015. Direct Phasing of …
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Imaging single cells in a beam of live cyanobacteria with an X-ray laser
11 Feb 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Gijs Van Der Schot, Martin Svenda, Filipe R. N. C. Maia, Max Hantke, Daniel P. DePonte, M. Marvin Seibert, Andrew Aquila, Joachim Schulz, Richard Kirian, Mengning Liang, Francesco Stellato, Bianca Iwan, Jakob Andreasson, Nicusor Timneanu, Daniel Westphal, F. Nunes Almeida, Dusko Odic, Dirk Hasse, Gunilla H. Carlsson, Daniel S. D. Larsson, Anton Barty, Andrew V. Martin, Sebastian Schorb, Christoph Bostedt, John D. Bozek, Daniel Rolles, Artem Rudenko, Sascha Epp, Lutz Foucar, Benedikt Rudek, Robert Hartmann, Nils Kimmel, Peter Holl, Lars Englert, Ne-Te Duane Loh, Henry Chapman, Inger Andersson, Janos Hajdu, Tomas Ekeberg
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6704 Gijs van der Schot and Martin Svenda and Filipe R. N. C. Maia and Max Hantke and Daniel P. DePonte and M. Marvin Seibert and Andrew Aquila and Joachim Schulz and Richard Kirian and Mengning Liang and Francesco Stellato and Bianca Iwan and Jakob Andreasson and …
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Side-chain-directed model and map validation for 3D Electron Cryomicroscopy
09 Feb 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Benjamin A Barad, Nathaniel Echols, Ray Yu-Ruei Wang, Yifan Cheng, Frank DiMaio, Paul D Adams, James Fraser
Advances in electron cryomicroscopy allow for the building of de novo atomic models into high resolution Coulomb potential maps. While established validation metrics independently assess map quality and model geometry, methods to assess the precise fitting of an atomic model into the map and to …
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Nanocrystallography
04 Feb 2015 | Teaching Materials
Joe Luft describes the theory and practice behind crystallography and nanocrystallography and discuss recent advances in the production, characterization, and optimization of nanocrystals.
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Towards RIP using free-electron laser SFX data
04 Feb 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Lorenzo Galli, Sang-Kil Son, Thomas A. White, Robin Santra, Henry Chapman, Max H. Nanao
Here, it is shown that simulated native serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) cathepsin B data can be phased by rapid ionization of sulfur atoms. Utilizing standard software adopted for radiation-damage-induced phasing (RIP), the effects on both substructure determination and phasing of the …
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A microfabricated fixed path length silicon sample holder improves background subtraction for cryoSAXS
29 Jan 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Jesse B. Hopkins, Andrea Katz, Steve P. Meisburger, Matthew A. Warkentin, Robert E. Thorne, Lois Pollack
http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/s1600576714027782 The application of small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) for high-throughput characterization of biological macromolecules in solution is limited by radiation damage. By cryocooling samples, radiation damage and required sample volumes can be reduced by …
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Molecular dynamics simulation of a psychrophilic adenylate kinase
29 Jan 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Euiyoung Bae, Sojin Moon, George Phillips
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13765-015-0033-y Euiyoung Bae and Sojin Moon and George N. Phillips Bae, E., Moon, S. & Phillips, G.N., 2015. Molecular dynamics simulation of a psychrophilic adenylate kinase. Journal of the Korean Society for Applied Biological Chemistry, 58(2), pp.209–212. Available …
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Crystal structure of the chemokine receptor CXCR4 in complex with a viral chemokine
23 Jan 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): L. Qin, I. Kufareva, L. G. Holden, C. Wang, Y. Zheng, C. Zhao, G. Fenalti, H. Wu, G. W. Han, V. Cherezov, R. Abagyan, R. C. Stevens, T. M. Handel
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1261064 L. Qin and I. Kufareva and L. G. Holden and C. Wang and Y. Zheng and C. Zhao and G. Fenalti and H. Wu and G. W. Han and V. Cherezov and R. Abagyan and R. C. Stevens and T. M. Handel Qin, L. et al., 2015. Crystal structure of the chemokine receptor CXCR4 in …
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Ultrafast self-gating Bragg diffraction of exploding nanocrystals in an X-ray laser
20 Jan 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Carl Caleman, Nicuşor Tîmneanu, Andrew V. Martin, H. Olof Jönsson, Andrew Aquila, Anton Barty, Howard A. Scott, Thomas A. White, Henry Chapman
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/oe.23.001213 Carl Caleman and Nicuşor Tîmneanu and Andrew V. Martin and H. Olof Jönsson and Andrew Aquila and Anton Barty and Howard A. Scott and Thomas A. White and Henry N. Chapman Caleman, C. et al., 2015. Ultrafast self-gating Bragg diffraction of exploding …
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Career Trends: Exploring Careers Beyond the Bench
20 Jan 2015 | Publications
Last month, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) released a report* with some grim news that confirmed what is painfully obvious to recent Ph.D. graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields: Unemployment for this cohort is on the rise (at 2.4% in 2010, up …
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Investigation of NO2 adsorption on reduced graphene oxide
15 Jan 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): E.C. Mattson, K. Pande, S. Cui, M. Weinert, J.H. Chen, C.J. Hirschmugl
journal-article http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2015.01.018 Mattson, E.C. et al., 2015. Investigation of NO2 adsorption on reduced graphene oxide. Chemical Physics Letters, 622, pp.86–91. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2015.01.018.
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Soft x-ray free-electron laser induced damage to inorganic scintillators
07 Jan 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Tomáš Burian, Věra Hájková, Jaromír Chalupský, Luděk Vyšín, Pavel Boháček, Martin Přeček, Jan Wild, Cigdem Özkan, Nicola Coppola, Shafagh Dastjani Farahani, Joachim Schulz, Harald Sinn, Thomas Tschentscher, Jérôme Gaudin, Saša Bajt, Kai Tiedtke, Sven Toleikis, Henry Chapman, Rolf A. Loch, Marek Jurek, Ryszard Sobierajski, Jacek Krzywinski, Stefan Moeller, Marion Harmand, Germano Galasso, Mitsuru Nagasono, Karel Saskl, Pavol Sovák, Libor Juha
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ome.5.000254 Tomáš Burian and Věra Hájková and Jaromír Chalupský and Luděk Vyšín and Pavel Boháček and Martin Přeček and Jan Wild and Cigdem Özkan and Nicola Coppola and Shafagh Dastjani Farahani and Joachim Schulz and Harald Sinn and Thomas Tschentscher and …
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From deep TLS validation to ensembles of atomic models built from elemental motions
02 Jan 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Alexandre Urzhumtsev, Pavel Afonine, Andrew H Van Benschoten, James Fraser, Paul D Adams
The widely used Translation Libration Screw (TLS) approximation describes concerted motions of atomic groups in X-ray refinement. TLS refinement often provides a better interpretation of diffraction data and the resulting rigid body motions may subsequently be assigned biochemical significance. In …
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Predicting X-ray Diffuse Scattering from Translation Libration Screw Structural Ensembles
02 Jan 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Andrew Van Benschoten, Pavel Afonine, Thomas Terwilliger, Michael Wall, Colin Jackson, Nicholas Sauter, Paul Adams, Alexandre Urzhumtsev, James Fraser
Identifying the intramolecular motions of proteins and nucleic acids is a major challenge in macromolecular X-ray crystallography. While Bragg diffraction describes the average positional distribution of crystalline atoms, many different models can fit this distribution equally well. Diffuse X-ray …
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Lipidic cubic phase serial millisecond crystallography using synchrotron radiation
02 Jan 2015 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Przemyslaw Nogly, Daniel James, Dingjie Wang, Thomas A. White, Nadia Zatsepin, Anastasya Shilova, Garrett Charles Nelson, Haiguang Liu, Linda Johansson, Michael Heymann, Kathrin Jaeger, Markus Metz, Cecilia Wickstrand, Wenting Wu, Petra Båth, Peter Berntsen, Dominik Oberthuer, Valerie Panneels, Vadim Cherezov, Henry Chapman, Gebhard F.X. Schertler, Richard Neutze, John Spence, Isabel Moraes, Manfred Burghammer, Joerg Standfuss, Uwe Weierstall
journal-article
Przemyslaw Nogly and Daniel James and Dingjie Wang and Thomas A. White and Nadia Zatsepin and Anastasya Shilova and Garrett Nelson and Haiguang Liu and Linda Johansson and Michael Heymann and Kathrin Jaeger and Markus Metz and Cecilia Wickstrand and Wenting Wu and Petra Båth and …
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Keep on Moving: Discovering and Perturbing the Conformational Dynamics of Enzymes
24 Dec 2014 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Gira Bhabha, Justin T. Biel, James Fraser
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ar5003158 Gira Bhabha and Justin T. Biel and James S. Fraser Bhabha, G., Biel, J.T. & Fraser, J.S., 2015. Keep on Moving: Discovering and Perturbing the Conformational Dynamics of Enzymes. Acc. Chem. Res., 48(2), pp.423–430. Available at: …
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The accurate assessment of small-angle X-ray scattering data
24 Dec 2014 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Thomas D. Grant, Joseph Luft, Lester G. Carter, Tsutomu Matsui, Thomas M. Weiss, Anne Martel, Edward Snell
Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) has grown in popularity in recent times with the advent of bright synchrotron X-ray sources, powerful computational resources and algorithms enabling the calculation of increasingly complex models. However, the lack of standardized data-quality metrics presents …
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Generic GPCR residue numbers – aligning topology maps while minding the gaps
22 Dec 2014 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Vignir Isberg, Chris De Graaf, Andrea Bortolato, Vadim Cherezov, Vsevolod Katritch, Fiona H. Marshall, Stefan Mordalski, Jean-Philippe Pin, Raymond C. Stevens, Gerrit Vriend, David E. Gloriam
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tips.2014.11.001 Vignir Isberg and Chris de Graaf and Andrea Bortolato and Vadim Cherezov and Vsevolod Katritch and Fiona H. Marshall and Stefan Mordalski and Jean-Philippe Pin and Raymond C. Stevens and Gerrit Vriend and David E. Gloriam Isberg, V. et al., 2015. Generic …
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2015 BioXFEL International Conference Invited Speakers Abstracts
17 Dec 2014 | Downloads
This is a compilation of the abstracts of the Invited Speakers of the 2015 BioXFEL Conference in Ponce, Puerto Rico. For more information please visit the event page www.bioxfel.org/events/details/6
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Time-resolved serial crystallography captures high-resolution intermediates of photoactive yellow protein.
05 Dec 2014 | Publications
Authors: Tenboer, J., Basu, S., Zatsepin, N., Pande, K., Milathianaki, D., Frank, M., Hunter, M., Boutet, S., Williams, G. J., Koglin, J. E., Oberthuer, D., Heymann, M., Kupitz, C., Conrad, C., Coe, J., Roy-Chowdhury, S., Weierstall, U., James, D., Wang, D., Grant, T., Barty, A., Yefanov, O., …
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2nd International BioXFEL Conference Detailed Agenda
05 Dec 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Tom Grant
This is a detailed agenda for the 2nd International BioXFEL Conference to be held in Ponce, Puerto Rico in January 2015. For more details about the event and to register, visit https://www.bioxfel.org/events/details/6
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Time-resolved serial crystallography captures high-resolution intermediates of photoactive yellow protein
04 Dec 2014 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Jason Tenboer, Shibom Basu, Nadia Zatsepin, Kanupriya Pande, Despina Milathianaki, Matthias Frank, Mark S. Hunter, Sébastien Boutet, Garth J. Williams, Jason E. Koglin, Dominik Oberthuer, Michael Heymann, Christopher Kupitz, Chelsie E Conrad, Jesse David Coe, Shatabdi Roy-Chowdhury, Uwe Weierstall, Daniel James, Dingjie Wang, Thomas Grant, Anton Barty, Oleksandr Yefanov, Jennifer Scales, Cornelius Gati, Carolin Seuring, Vukica Srajer, Robert Henning, Peter Schwander, Raimund Fromme, Abbas Ourmazd, Keith Moffat, Jasper J. Van Thor, John Spence, Petra Fromme, Henry Chapman, Marius Schmidt
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1259357
Jason Tenboer and Shibom Basu and Nadia Zatsepin and Kanupriya Pande and Despina Milathianaki and Matthias Frank and Mark Hunter and Sébastien Boutet and Garth J. Williams and Jason E. Koglin and Dominik Oberthuer and Michael Heymann and Christopher …
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Trajectories of the ribosome as a Brownian nanomachine
24 Nov 2014 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Ali Dashti, Peter Schwander, Robert Langlois, Russell Fung, Wen Li, Ahmad Hosseinizadeh, Hstau Y. Liao, Jesper Pallesen, Gyanesh Sharma, Vera A. Stupina, Anne E. Simon, Jonathan D. Dinman, Joachim Frank, Abbas Ourmazd
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1419276111 Ali Dashti and Peter Schwander and Robert Langlois and Russell Fung and Wen Li and Ahmad Hosseinizadeh and Hstau Y. Liao and Jesper Pallesen and Gyanesh Sharma and Vera A. Stupina and Anne E. Simon and Jonathan D. Dinman and Joachim Frank and Abbas Ourmazd …
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Measuring the temporal structure of few-femtosecond free-electron laser X-ray pulses directly in the time domain
24 Nov 2014 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): W. Helml, A. R. Maier, W. Schweinberger, I. Grguraš, P. Radcliffe, G. Doumy, C. Roedig, J. Gagnon, M. Messerschmidt, S. Schorb, C. Bostedt, F. Grüner, L. F. DiMauro, D. Cubaynes, J. D. Bozek, Th. Tschentscher, J. T. Costello, M. Meyer, R. Coffee, S. Düsterer, A. L. Cavalieri, R. Kienberger
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2014.278 journal-article Helml, W. et al., 2014. Measuring the temporal structure of few-femtosecond free-electron laser X-ray pulses directly in the time domain. Nature Photonics, 8(12), pp.950–957. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2014.278.
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Role of DNA sequence in chromatin remodeling and the formation of nucleosome-free regions
17 Nov 2014 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Yahli Lorch, Barbara Maier-Davis, Roger Kornberg
journal-article http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/gad.250704.114 Lorch, Y., Maier-Davis, B. & Kornberg, R.D., 2014. Role of DNA sequence in chromatin remodeling and the formation of nucleosome-free regions. Genes & Development, 28(22), pp.2492–2497. Available at: …
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Trace phase detection and strain characterization from serial X-ray free-electron laser crystallography of a Pr0.5Ca0.5MnO3 powder
17 Nov 2014 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Kenneth R. Beyerlein, Christian Jooss, Anton Barty, Richard Bean, Sébastien Boutet, Sarnjeet S. Dhesi, R. Bruce Doak, Michael Först, Lorenzo Galli, Richard Kirian, Joseph Kozak, Michael Lang, Roman Mankowsky, Marc Messerschmidt, John Spence, Dingjie Wang, Uwe Weierstall, Thomas A. White, Garth J. Williams, Oleksandr Yefanov, Nadia Zatsepin, Andrea Cavalleri, Henry Chapman
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0885715614001171 We report on the analysis of virtual powder-diffraction patterns from serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) data collected at an X-ray free-electron laser. Different approaches to binning and normalizing these patterns are discussed with respect to the …
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Production and Properties of XFEL Radiation
13 Nov 2014 | Teaching Materials
Dr. Pietro Musumeci (UCLA) discusses an introduction to the physics and characteristics of X-ray free electron lasers.
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BioXFEL Lecture Series
13 Nov 2014 | Courses
The BioXFEL Lecture Series is an online colloquium featuring lectures on various topics related to XFEL science in biology. Prominent experts in their respective fields, lecturers will present a broad range of materials from an introduction to XFEL radiation to more advanced topics of time-resolved …
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A hybrid NMR/SAXS-based approach for discriminating oligomeric protein interfaces using Rosetta
12 Nov 2014 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Paolo Rossi, Lei Shi, Gaohua Liu, Christopher M. Barbieri, Hsiau-Wei Lee, Thomas D. Grant, Joseph Luft, Rong Xiao, Thomas B. Acton, Edward Snell, Gaetano T. Montelione, David Baker, Oliver F. Lange, Nikolaos G. Sgourakis
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/prot.24719 journal-article Rossi, P. et al., 2014. A hybrid NMR/SAXS-based approach for discriminating oligomeric protein interfaces using Rosetta. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 83(2), pp.309–317. Available at: …
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Insulator-based dielectrophoresis with β-galactosidase in nanostructured devices
12 Nov 2014 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Asuka Nakano, Fernanda Camacho-Alanis, Alexandra Ros
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4an01503g Asuka Nakano and Fernanda Camacho-Alanis and Alexandra Ros Nakano, A., Camacho-Alanis, F. & Ros, A., 2015. Insulator-based dielectrophoresis with β-galactosidase in nanostructured devices. Analyst, 140(3), pp.860–868. Available at: …
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Goniometer-based femtosecond crystallography with X-ray free electron lasers
01 Nov 2014 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Aina E. Cohen, S. Michael Soltis, Ana González, Laura Aguila, Roberto Alonso-Mori, Christopher Barnes, Elizabeth L. Baxter, Winnie Brehmer, Aaron S. Brewster, Axel T. Brunger, Guillermo Calero, Joseph F. Chang, Matthieu Chollet, Paul Ehrensberger, Thomas L. Eriksson, Yiping Feng, Johan Hattne, Britt Hedman, Michael Hollenbeck, James Holton, Stephen Keable, Brian K. Kobilka, Elena G. Kovaleva, Andrew C. Kruse, Henrik T. Lemke, Guowu Lin, Artem Y. Lyubimov, Aashish Manglik, Irimpan I. Mathews, Scott E. McPhillips, Silke Nelson, John W. Peters, Nicholas K. Sauter, Clyde A. Smith, Jinhu Song, Hilary P. Stevenson, Yingssu Tsai, Monarin Uervirojnangkoorn, Vladimir Vinetsky, Soichi Wakatsuki, William I. Weis, Oleg A. Zadvornyy, Oliver B. Zeldin, Diling Zhu, Keith O. Hodgson
journal-article http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1418733111 Cohen, A.E. et al., 2014. Goniometer-based femtosecond crystallography with X-ray free electron lasers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(48), pp.17122–17127. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1418733111.
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Crystal Structure of Human Protein N-Terminal Glutamine Amidohydrolase, an Initial Component of the N-End Rule Pathway
30 Oct 2014 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Mi Seul Park, Eduard Bitto, Kyung Rok Kim, Craig A. Bingman, Mitchell Miller, Hyun-Jung Kim, Byung Woo Han, George Phillips
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111142 journal-article NSF-STC Biology with X-ray Lasers (NSF-1231306) Park, M.S. et al., 2014. Crystal Structure of Human Protein N-Terminal Glutamine Amidohydrolase, an Initial Component of the N-End Rule Pathway T. J. Boggon, ed. PLoS ONE, 9(10), …
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Structure of a cupin protein Plu4264 from
Photorhabdus luminescens
subsp. laumondii TTO1 at 1.35 Å resolution
30 Oct 2014 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): R. Sophia Weerth, Karolina Michalska, Craig A. Bingman, Ragothaman M. Yennamalli, Hui Li, Robert Jedrzejczak, Fengbin Wang, Gyorgy Babnigg, Andrzej Joachimiak, Michael G. Thomas, George Phillips
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/prot.24705 journal-article Weerth, R.S. et al., 2014. Structure of a cupin protein Plu4264 from Photorhabdus luminescens subsp. laumondii TTO1 at 1.35 Å resolution. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 83(2), pp.383–388. Available at: …
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Tabletop source for intense hard X-rays: toward a compact XFEL
28 Oct 2014 | Seminars
Dr. William Graves
ASU Biophysics Seminar Series
Today x-ray science is pursued either at major facilities housed in national labs, where the large synchrotrons and x-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) produce an x-ray brilliance of at least 1020 photons/(sec mm2 mrad2 0.1%), or else it is pursued …
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European XFEL Users Meeting
28 Oct 2014 | Downloads
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Crystallographic Methods - Crystallographic Symmetry - Part III
22 Oct 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Edward Snell
Dr. Edward Snell
Diffraction measurements
Crystal classes and Laue groups; Diffraction symmetry – Friedel and Bijvoet pairs; Space group determination – Systematic extinctions; Reading the International Tables; Non-crystallographic symmetry
Rupp, chs. 8, 6 (§6.5), and 5 (§5.2)
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Crystallographic Methods - Crystallographic Symmetry - Part II
20 Oct 2014 | Teaching Materials
Dr. Edward Snell
Diffraction measurements
Crystal classes and Laue groups; Diffraction symmetry – Friedel and Bijvoet pairs; Space group determination – Systematic extinctions; Reading the International Tables; Non-crystallographic symmetry
Rupp, chs. 8, 6 (§6.5), and 5 (§5.2)
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Crystallographic Methods - Crystallographic Symmetry - Part I
20 Oct 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Edward Snell
Dr. Edward Snell
Diffraction measurements
Crystal classes and Laue groups; Diffraction symmetry – Friedel and Bijvoet pairs; Space group determination – Systematic extinctions; Reading the International Tables; Non-crystallographic symmetry
Rupp, chs. 8, 6 (§6.5), and 5 (§5.2)
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XRayView
09 Oct 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): George Phillips
XRayView : A Virtual X-Ray Crystallography Laboratory This software uses interactive computer graphics to introduce basic concepts of X-ray diffraction by crystals, including the reciprocal lattice, the Ewald sphere construction, Laue cones, the wavelength dependence of the reciprocal lattice, …
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Solving protein nanocrystals by cryo-EM diffraction: Multiple scattering artifacts
07 Oct 2014 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): GANESH SUBRAMANIAN, Shibom Basu, Haiguang Liu, Jian-Min Zuo, John Spence
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2014.08.013 Ganesh Subramanian and Shibom Basu and Haiguang Liu and Jian-Min Zuo and John C.H. Spence Subramanian, G. et al., 2015. Solving protein nanocrystals by cryo-EM diffraction: Multiple scattering artifacts. Ultramicroscopy, 148, pp.87–93. Available …
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Double-focusing mixing jet for XFEL study of chemical kinetics
06 Oct 2014 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Dingjie Wang, Uwe Weierstall, Lois Pollack, John Spence
Several liquid sample injection methods have been developed to satisfy the requirements for serial femtosecond X-ray nanocrystallography, which enables radiation-damage-free determination of molecular structure at room temperature. Time-resolved nanocrystallography would combine structure analysis …
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Probing the Nature of Charge Transfer at Nano–Bio Interfaces: Peptides on Metal Oxide Nanoparticles
03 Oct 2014 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Pilarisetty Tarakeshwar, Julio L. Palma, Gregory P. Holland, Petra Fromme, Jeffery L. Yarger, Vladimiro Mujica
journal-article http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jz501854x Tarakeshwar, P. et al., 2014. Probing the Nature of Charge Transfer at Nano–Bio Interfaces: Peptides on Metal Oxide Nanoparticles. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 5(20), pp.3555–3559. Available at: …
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Crystallographic Methods - X-ray Diffraction Physics - Part IX
03 Oct 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Robert H Blessing
Dr. Bob Blessing
X-Ray diffraction physics
X-Ray sources; Wave nature of X-rays; X-Ray scattering by an electron, an atom, a molecule, by a lattice row, a lattice plane, by a crystal – Laue diffraction / Bragg reflection; The crystal structure factor
Rupp, ch. 6
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Crystallographic Methods - X-ray Diffraction Physics - Part VIII
01 Oct 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Robert H Blessing
Dr. Bob Blessing
X-Ray diffraction physics
X-Ray sources; Wave nature of X-rays; X-Ray scattering by an electron, an atom, a molecule, by a lattice row, a lattice plane, by a crystal – Laue diffraction / Bragg reflection; The crystal structure factor
Rupp, ch. 6
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Accurate small and wide angle x-ray scattering profiles from atomic models of proteins and nucleic acids
29 Sep 2014 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Hung T. Nguyen, Suzette A. Pabit, Steve P. Meisburger, Lois Pollack, David Case
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4896220 journal-article Nguyen, H.T. et al., 2014. Accurate small and wide angle x-ray scattering profiles from atomic models of proteins and nucleic acids. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 141(22), p.22D508. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4896220.
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Crystallographic Methods - X-ray Diffraction Physics - Part VII
28 Sep 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Robert H Blessing
Dr. Bob Blessing
X-Ray diffraction physics
X-Ray sources; Wave nature of X-rays; X-Ray scattering by an electron, an atom, a molecule, by a lattice row, a lattice plane, by a crystal – Laue diffraction / Bragg reflection; The crystal structure factor
Rupp, ch. 6
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Crystallographic Methods - X-ray Diffraction Physics - Part VI
25 Sep 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Robert H Blessing
Dr. Bob Blessing
X-Ray diffraction physics
X-Ray sources; Wave nature of X-rays; X-Ray scattering by an electron, an atom, a molecule, by a lattice row, a lattice plane, by a crystal – Laue diffraction / Bragg reflection; The crystal structure factor
Rupp, ch. 6
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Discovery and Characterization of Gut Microbiota Decarboxylases that Can Produce the Neurotransmitter Tryptamine
25 Sep 2014 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Brianna B. Williams, Andrew H. Van Benschoten, Peter Cimermancic, Mohamed S. Donia, Michael Zimmermann, Mao Taketani, Atsushi Ishihara, Purna C. Kashyap, James S. Fraser, Michael A. Fischbach
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2014.09.001 journal-article Williams, B.B. et al., 2014. Discovery and Characterization of Gut Microbiota Decarboxylases that Can Produce the Neurotransmitter Tryptamine. Cell Host & Microbe, 16(4), pp.495–503. Available at: …
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Microfluidic Platforms for Bimolecular and Nanocrystal Separation
23 Sep 2014 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Alexandra Ros
Dr. Alexandra Ros
Analytical and bioanalytical applications of microfluidic devices or so called Lab-on-a-Chip Systems have been an extensive field of research over the past two decades. In many instances, integration of (bio)chemical analyses onto microfluidic platforms has been inspired by …
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The indexing ambiguity in serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) resolved using an expectation maximization algorithm
23 Sep 2014 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Haiguang Liu, John Spence
Crystallographic auto-indexing algorithms provide crystal orientations and unit-cell parameters and assign Miller indices based on the geometric relations between the Bragg peaks observed in diffraction patterns. However, if the Bravais symmetry is higher than the space-group symmetry, there will …
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Crystallographic Methods - X-ray Diffraction Physics - Part V
22 Sep 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Robert H Blessing
Dr. Bob Blessing
X-Ray diffraction physics
X-Ray sources; Wave nature of X-rays; X-Ray scattering by an electron, an atom, a molecule, by a lattice row, a lattice plane, by a crystal – Laue diffraction / Bragg reflection; The crystal structure factor
Rupp, ch. 6
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Crystallographic Methods - Geometrical Crystallography - Part I
19 Sep 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Robert H Blessing
Dr. Bob Blessing
Geometrical crystallography
Laws of classical crystallography; Lattices, point groups, space groups; Crystal faces, lattice planes, and Miller indices; The Bragg equation and the Ewald construction; Reciprocal space and the reciprocal lattice
Rupp, ch. 5
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Crystallographic Methods - X-ray Diffraction Physics - Part IV
18 Sep 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Robert H Blessing
Dr. Bob Blessing
X-Ray diffraction physics
X-Ray sources; Wave nature of X-rays; X-Ray scattering by an electron, an atom, a molecule, by a lattice row, a lattice plane, by a crystal – Laue diffraction / Bragg reflection; The crystal structure factor
Rupp, ch. 6
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Structure and Function of REP34 Implicates Carboxypeptidase Activity inFrancisella tularensisHost Cell Invasion
18 Sep 2014 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Geoffrey K. Feld, Sahar El-Etr, Michele H. Corzett, Mark S. Hunter, Kamila Belhocine, Denise M. Monack, Matthias Frank, Brent W. Segelke, Amy Rasley
http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m114.599381 journal-article Feld, G.K. et al., 2014. Structure and Function of REP34 Implicates Carboxypeptidase Activity inFrancisella tularensisHost Cell Invasion. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 289(44), pp.30668–30679. Available at: …
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Crystallographic Methods - X-ray Diffraction Physics - Part III
15 Sep 2014 | Teaching Materials
Dr. Bob Blessing
X-Ray diffraction physics
X-Ray sources; Wave nature of X-rays; X-Ray scattering by an electron, an atom, a molecule, by a lattice row, a lattice plane, by a crystal – Laue diffraction / Bragg reflection; The crystal structure factor
Rupp, ch. 6
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Crystallographic Methods - X-ray Diffraction Physics - Part II
11 Sep 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Robert H Blessing
Dr. Bob Blessing
X-Ray diffraction physics
X-Ray sources; Wave nature of X-rays; X-Ray scattering by an electron, an atom, a molecule, by a lattice row, a lattice plane, by a crystal – Laue diffraction / Bragg reflection; The crystal structure factor
Rupp, ch. 6
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Serial time-resolved crystallography of photosystem II using a femtosecond X-ray laser.
11 Sep 2014 | Publications
Authors: Kupitz, C., Basu, S., Grotjohann, I., Fromme, R., Zatsepin, N. A., Rendek, K. N., Hunter, M. S., Shoeman, R. L., White, T. A., Wang, D., James, D., Yang, J. H., Cobb, D. E., Reeder, B., Sierra, R. G., Liu, H., Barty, A., Aquila, A. L., Deponte, D., Kirian, R. A., Bari, S., Bergkamp, J. J., …
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Crystallographic Methods - X-ray Diffraction Physics - Part I
08 Sep 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Robert H Blessing
Dr. Bob Blessing
X-Ray diffraction physics
X-Ray sources; Wave nature of X-rays; X-Ray scattering by an electron, an atom, a molecule, by a lattice row, a lattice plane, by a crystal – Laue diffraction / Bragg reflection; The crystal structure factor
Rupp, ch. 6
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Silicon single crystal as back-reflector for high-intensity hard x-rays
05 Sep 2014 | BioXFEL Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Pardini, Sébastien Boutet, Joseph Bradley, Tilo Doeppner, Luke B. Fletcher, Dennis F. Gardner, Randy M. Hill, Mark S. Hunter, Jacek Krzywinski, Marc Messerschmidt, Arthur E. Pak, Florian Quirin, Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten, Garth J. Williams, Stefan Hau-Riege
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2061087 proceedings-article Pardini, T. et al., 2014. Silicon single crystal as back-reflector for high-intensity hard x-rays S. P. Hau-Riege, S. P. Moeller, & M. Yabashi, eds. X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers: Beam Diagnostics, Beamline Instrumentation, and Applications …
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Crystallographic Methods - Geometrical Crystallography - Part II
04 Sep 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Robert H Blessing
Dr. Bob Blessing
Geometrical crystallography
Laws of classical crystallography; Lattices, point groups, space groups; Crystal faces, lattice planes, and Miller indices; The Bragg equation and the Ewald construction; Reciprocal space and the reciprocal lattice
Rupp, ch. 5
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Psana Tutorial
03 Sep 2014 | Teaching Materials
Chris O'Grady (SLAC)
Psana is the main analysis tool developed by LCLS, upon which some other tools are based. It uses a combination of C++ and python. I will discuss recent psana developments and future plans. Recent developments include the ability to express complex analysis ideas with simple …
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Cheetah Tutorial
03 Sep 2014 | Teaching Materials
Anton Barty (CFEL)
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CASS and SFX SAD Tutorial
03 Sep 2014 | Teaching Materials
Karol Nass (MPI)
Extraction of diffraction images of the lysozyme Gadolinium derivative (Barends et al. Science 2013) from the raw LCLS format to HDF5 format. Integration of CrystFEL analysis with CASS start-up scripts. Ab initio SAD phasing of SFX data.
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CrystFEL Tutorial
03 Sep 2014 | Teaching Materials
Tom White (CFEL)
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cctbx.xfel Tutorial
03 Sep 2014 | Teaching Materials
Nick Sauter (LBNL)
Aaron Brewster (LBNL)
Oliver Zeldin (Stanford)
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Data Analysis and Sample Delivery
29 Aug 2014 | Teaching Materials
John Spence (ASU/LBNL)
How XFEL MX differs from MX and why we do it.
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Free Electron Lasers and Crystallography
29 Aug 2014 | Teaching Materials
Paul Adams (LBNL)
BioXFEL in the greater context of crystallography
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SFX Data Reduction and Preprocessing
29 Aug 2014 | Teaching Materials
Anton Barty (CFEL)
Photons, detectors and data streams: how to get at the data and what it records. Data reduction and pre-processing: how it works and how to optimize it.
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Rapid Data Quality Feedback and Online Monitoring using CASS
29 Aug 2014 | Teaching Materials
Karol Nass (MPI)
Description of the layout of CASS software suite and its functionality on the LCLS online and offline data streams. Real time monitoring of the SFX experiment: hit rate, resolution, pixel saturation, 2D powder pattern. Rapid offline processing of the raw LCLS data: crystal hit …