Beamline 17-ID-B: Sector 17 - Insertion Device
IMCA-CAT
Life Sciences
Description
Optimized for proprietary structure-based drug design, IMCA-CAT is dedicated to high-throughput macromolecular crystallography for the pharmaceutical industry. The beamline is equipped with industrial-strength high-speed robotics and automated for sample mounting, diffraction centering, data acquisition, and data processing. Mail-in access, only.
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Supported Techniques
- Macromolecular crystallography
- Multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion
- Microbeam
- Single-wavelength anomalous dispersion
- Large unit cell crystallography
- Subatomic (<0.85 Å) resolution
Beamline Controls and Data Acquisition
Epics; GUI for beamline control (including energy or wavelength, energy scans for MAD, attenuation, beam size); auto and manual data collection; Global Phasing autoPROC for auto data processing; and SynchWeb/ISPyB for communicating sample information.
Detectors
- Dectris Eiger2 X 9M Pixel Array
- Rontec X-Flash SDD for fluorescence spectroscopy
Additional Equipment
- Rigaku ACTOR2S industrial robot (Unipucks only; capacity for 672 samples)
- Oxford Instruments cryojet
- AIM Concepts air bearing goniometer
- On-axis sample visualization system
- Automatic filling of liquid nitrogen dewars
- User-accessible computers for data processing
- Biochemistry Laboratory for sample preparation
- >60 TB Storage System
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Local Contacts
Beamline Specs
Source |
3.3 Undulator (Undulator A) |
Monochromator Type |
Si(111) |
Energy Range |
6-20 keV |
Resolution (ΔE/E) |
1.5 x 10 -4 |
Flux (photons/sec) |
8 x 10 12 @12.4 keV |
Beam Size (HxV) |
Focused |
5µm x 5µm
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For additional information see:
https://www.imca-cat.org
Current Status:
Commissioning
Access Mode:
Mail-in
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