Access Modes

• Beamtime access – You request beamtime for remote data collection and ship your samples to Diamond. We will schedule a visit for you, and you can collect your data by connecting through your home lab.
• Mail-in bespoke service – You request beamtime for service work and confirm the number of samples. You then ship your samples and send us instructions for data collection. Our team of Industrial Liaison MX experts will collect data on your behalf.
• Unattended data collection (UDC) service – You select a suitable protocol and data collection parameters, and after your samples arrive at Diamond the data will be collected, in automated mode, at the nearest opportunity.
• Data analysis – The downstream structural analysis of collected and processed data can be done by the user by remotely connecting to Diamond servers, providing you have the relevant software licences. Alternatively, data analysis can be performed by our team of Industrial Liaison MX experts as a further extension of the mail-in service.
• Membrane protein platform – Scientists involved in membrane protein structural biology projects can use the upstream services of the Membrane Protein Laboratory (MPL) at Diamond, which include membrane protein purification and biophysical analysis, crystallisation and structural analysis. The work can be done at the MPL either by yourself or by our dedicated Diamond experts.
• Crystallisation platform - This platform provides users with an easy route into protein crystallisation for experiments using Diamond's MX beamlines. The crystallisation plates can be set up at Diamond's crystallisation facility, either by our team of Industrial Liaison MX experts or by you.

Please contact the Industrial Liaison MX team to discuss which access modes would best suit your planned experiment.