Synchrotrons
For a list of synchrotrons please see Synchrotron beamlines
The following beamlines offer mail-in service or remote access: (compiled from the CCP4 BB July 2008)
1. The ALS BCSB beamlines http://bcsb.lbl.gov/beamlines.htm have a mail-in type program name collaborative crystallography on beamlines 5.0.2 (MAD) and 5.0.1 (Se-SAD/ Fixed Wavelength). Remote access is currently available on the sector 5 stations (5.0.1 5.0.2 and 5.0.3) for PRT members only. ALS 4.2.2 beamline has remote capability
2. Beamline 3BM1 at the Australian Synchrotron http://www.synchrotron.org.au has full remote access available for users. We use the same Blu-Ice gui as SSRL and use the SAM robot. When 3ID is available for general user program (2009) it will also have full remote access capabilities.
3. BNL / NSLS Mail-in program http://www.px.nsls.bnl.gov/, where three scientists spend about one full-time equivalent of effort, employing about one full-time beamline among the six PXRR beamlines. Access to Beam Time http://www.px.nsls.bnl.gov/beamtime_requests.html Mail-in Program http://www.px.nsls.bnl.gov/Mailin.html
4. The canadian light source http://www.lightsource.ca/ has at least mail in protein crystallography.
5. MacCHESS http://www.macchess.cornell.edu/ does "mail-in" collection on all PX beamlines.
6. All the ESRF MX/PX beamlines (ID14-1, ID14-2, ID14-4, ID23-1, ID29), and the CRG beam-line BM14, have remote access. http://www.esrf.eu/UsersAndScience/Experiments/MX/How_to_use_our_beamlines/remote-access For industrial users there is also the MXpress mail in service: http://www.esrf.eu/Industry/our_services/xpress-service/xpress-service
7. SEC-CAT 22-ID and 22-BM at APS http://www.ser-cat.org/ will do both mail-in (for CAT members) and remote
8. SPring8 in Japan http://www.spring8.or.jp/en/about_us/organization/research_utilization/biology has a mail-in system.
9. SSRL http://smb.slac.stanford.edu/ all PX beamlines have remote capability. About 75% of the users use fully remote data collection routinely
10. CAMD's PX beamline http://www.camd.lsu.edu/gcpcc/GCPCChome.htm has a mail-in program for both consortium members and outside users.
11. BESSY BL14.1 and BL14.2 http://www.mx.bessy.de, The BESSY-MX group is offering the "mail-in" service for industrial collaborators.
12. SLS (http://sls.web.psi.ch/): For industrial users there is a Mail-In Service available since more than 3 years. For technical questions please contact Joachim Diez (Joachim.Diez@psi.ch) or Clemens Schulze-Briese (clemens.schulze@psi.ch), for questions about contracts please contact Philipp Dietrich (philipp.dietrich@psi.ch). Remote operation is in preparation for all beamlines.
A useful link from PDB containing synchrotron info: http://biosync.rcsb.org/ e.g. to find info on number of solved structures, method, and so on: choose one of the structure galleries, for example Europe:
http://biosync.sbkb.org/stats.do?stats_sec=GALLRY&stats_focus_lvl=RGNL&stats_region=European
Then choose a beamline, say ID23-1:
Then, near the top of the page, see the line "Table of general information (software, resolution, R-factors, etc) in tab delimited text format"
http://biosync.sbkb.org/biosync_pdbtext/measureESRFID23-1.txt
You'll get a table where the solution method and software follows the PDB_ID. There's a RELEASE DATE at the end on which you may sort.
Please copy and paste the empty row for the next person to fill in
See also the robosync page on automounters at synchrotrons.