The BCA/CCP4 Protein Crystallography Summer School was intended for students and researchers new to crystallography. Its dual aims were to provide comprehensive training in crystallography and to promote best practise within the British crystallographic community.
The lectures covered the gamut of techniques required for a structure solution, from protein expression through to structure validation. Intensively supervised computer tutorials enabled students to relate the theory presented in the lectures to practice.
Although CCP4 programs were primarily be used in these tutorials, the aim was to approach crystallographic questions in a software-agnostic manner. There was also a crystal manipulation and cooling workshop. (Note that the course was scheduled during Diamond synchrotron downtime, so there was not active data collection at the Diamond beamlines.)