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ArticleJournal of synchrotron radiation2019

VMXi: a fully automated, fully remote, high-flux in situ macromolecular crystallography beamline.

Juan Sanchez-Weatherby, James Sandy, Halina Mikolajek, Carina M C Lobley, Marco Mazzorana, Jon Kelly, Geoff Preece, Rich Littlewood, Thomas L M Sørensen

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Article in Journal of synchrotron radiation, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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41 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Juan Sanchez-WeatherbyDiamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5893-9641
James SandyDiamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6271-2084
Halina MikolajekDiamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0776-9974
Carina M C LobleyDiamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3673-2767
Marco MazzoranaDiamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9414-4547
Jon KellyDiamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK.
Geoff PreeceDiamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK.
Rich LittlewoodDiamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK.
Thomas L M SørensenDiamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7992-8976

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

VMXi is a new high-flux microfocus macromolecular crystallography beamline at Diamond Light Source. The beamline, dedicated to fully automated and fully remote data collection of macromolecular crystals in situ, allows rapid screening of hundreds of crystallization plates from multiple user groups. Its main purpose is to give fast feedback at the complex stages of crystallization and crystal optimization, but it also enables data collection of small and delicate samples that are particularly difficult to harvest using conventional cryo-methods, crystals grown in the lipidic cubic phase, and allows for multi-crystal data collections in drug discovery programs. The beamline is equipped with two monochromators: one with a narrow band-pass and fine energy resolution (optimal for regular oscillation experiments), and one with a wide band-pass and a high photon flux (optimal for fast screening). The beamline has a state-of-the-art detector and custom goniometry that allows fast data collection. This paper describes the beamline design, current status and future plans.

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automated beamline operationin situ diffraction experimentsroom-temperature data collectionserial crystallography

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PMID30655497
PMCPMC6337891

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