Collaborative Computational Project No. 4
Software for Macromolecular X-Ray Crystallography
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CCP4 school: From data processing to structure refinement and beyond May 23 - May 28 2008

School Announcement

We are pleased to announce the 1st annual CCP4 USA Crystallography Summer School organized jointly with the General Medicine and Cancer Institute Collaborative Access Team (GM/CA-CAT). The 2008 workshop will take place at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) synchrotron site at Argonne National Laboratory, near Chicago.

School Dates

May 23 - May 28, 2008
The workshop will focus on structure solution, refinement and validation.

School Details

Purpose of the course and intended audience

The course is intended mainly for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the area of structural biology from all across the globe. In some cases, assistant -professor-level applicants can be accepted as well. The school is not meant as an introductory level course to protein crystallography. It is designed more for applicants with reasonable expertise in crystallography and experience with the CCP4 suite. The purpose of the school is to address specific problems that the applicants face while collecting diffraction data and while solving and refining novel structures. Applicants with crystals for data collection or with already collected data will be given strong consideration, although these are not mandatory requirements.

Several of the leading PX software developers from around the world will present lectures and tutorials on their software and will also be available to help with problems during hands-on sessions of the workshop.

Data Processing and Structure Solution Workshop

The aim of this workshop will be to cover all aspects of the structure solution process in macromolecular crystallography, starting from data processing, through phasing and refinement, and ending with validation and deposition.

The workshop will cover many popular programs used for data processing and structure solution with the software developers available to help throughout the week. Programs covered will include: Mosflm, Scala, HKL2000, Refmac, ArpWarp, PHENIX, Phaser, Coot, SHELXC/D/E, Balbes, Mrbump, Buccaneer and many more.