For those of you who came to NE-CAT in April, you may have noticed the new oven out on the beamline next to the C work area. This oven is for drying cryopucks and any equipment associated using cryopucks. This is intended to prevent melting of the Styrofoam transfer containers and make puck drying more efficient. Be careful using the oven, as it is very hot! Cryopucks placed inside will be dry within 30 minutes.
The new Remote program was recently tested by the Ealick lab at Cornell. A typical 22 hour shift was completed with only minor bugs. Of great benefit was the feedback from the remote users, which will be used to improve the interface before rollout in Run2 2012.Remote access for 24ID-E will be available for Run 2 of 2012.
At the beginning of March, it was noticed that at certain energies, the background was elevated in one module of the PILATUS-6MF. A site visit from Dectris was scheduled for module replacement at the end of the month. During the visit, it was found that the module had a loose connection. The connector was replaced, solving the elevated background issue, but the module was not changed. In addition, during the site visit, we received new software for the PILATUS-6MF which eliminates the 3 second shutterless exposure limit.
Data Quality Comparison Between the PILATUS-6MF and ADSC Q315
Biannual newsletter for winter 2011 is now available.
NIH establishes NCATS and dissolves NCRR
As a part the NIH plan to start a new center on translational medicine (NCATS), as of December 23, 2011, NCRR has been dissolved by order of Congress and the President of the United States. With the cessation of NCRR, NE-CAT has been transferred to the new Division of Biomedical Technology, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS).
PILATUS-6MF installation on 24-ID-C
Hardware has been built and software has been written to integrate the PILATUS-6MF with the beamline. Over the Thanksgiving weekend, the PILATUS-6MF was temporarily installed on 24-ID-C to test the hardware and software. The PILATUS was tested for 2 days. Data collection was performed in both shutterless and shuttered modes. Initial tests show almost no background, excellent statistics, and the possibility to detect crystal diffraction at higher resolution with lower x-ray dose.
References for programs used by RAPD have now been added to the RAPD wiki. Giving credit is now even easier!
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