Industrial Liaison Office
Our Beamlines
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I03 is a high throughput tuneable beamline. In addition, containment infrastructure allows experiments on biological agents in Hazard Groups 2 and 3.
Best for:
- Standard data collection
- Experimental SAD and MAD phasing
- In situ experiments
- Hazard Groups 2/3 biological samples
Benefits:
- High photon flux
- Fast data collection, up to 24 samples per hour
- Fully automated data collection via X-ray centring
I04 is a high throughput tuneable beamline with a variable beam focus from 5 to 100 microns.
Best for:
- Standard data collection
- Experimental SAD and MAD phasing
- Small or disordered samples
- Samples in LCP
Key benefits:
- Microfocus beam
- Fast data collection, up to 20 samples per hour
- Fully automated data collection via X-ray centring
I04-1 is a high throughput fixed wavelength beamline associated with the XChem platform.
Best for:
- Standard data collection
- Experimental SAD phasing
- Fragment screening (XChem)
Key Benefits:
- Fast and fully automated data collection, up to 32 samples per hour
I24 is a high throughput tuneable beamline with variable microfocus beam from 6 to 50 microns. The beamline has a dual goniometer endstation allowing for both cryo and in situ modes of data collection.
Best for:
- Standard data collection
- Experimental SAD and MAD phasing
- Small and disordered samples
- Samples in LCP
- Serial synchrotron crystallography
Key Benefits:
- High photon flux density
- Fixed target crystallography
- Flexible data collection mode
- Fast data collection, up to 24 samples per hour
VMXm is a micro/nanofocus MX beamline aimed at atomic structure determination in cases where the production of significant quantities of protein material and crystals is problematic.
Best for:
Atomic structure determination. It is a micro/nanofocus MX beamline.
Benefits:
Can be used in cases where the production of significant quantities of protein material and crystals is problematic.
Status:
Under construction
This Versatile Macromolecular Crystallography in situ (VMXi) beamline is an entirely automated facility for characterisation of, and data collection directly from, crystallisation experiments in situ.
Best for:
Characterisation of crystallisation experiments
In situ data collection
Key Benefits:
Entirely automated facility and for experiments performed in situ.
Status:
Commissioning.
I23 is a long-wavelength tuneable beamline dedicated to phasing experiments. The whole endstation, including I23 bespoke pilatus detector, is under vaccuum to minimise absorption and scattering effects.
Best for:
- Experimental phasing on native samples (i.e. S and P)Phasing of large macrolecular complexes
- Ion binding characterisation (e.g. Ca, K or Cl)
Key benefits:
- Operational wavelength range from 1.5 to 4 Angstrom
- Access to the absorption egdes of physiologically important elements
Status:
Commissioning
