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Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron facility, located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire. Produces intense beams of X-rays, UV, and infrared light. Seven MX beamlines plus the electron Bio-Imaging Centre (eBIC) for cryo-EM. ~10,000 researcher visits per year. Co-located with CCP4 core team at the Research Complex at Harwell.
Key Relationships
- Home of DIALS development (UK side); Gwyndaf Evans leads MX group
- CCP4 core team (Eugene Krissinel, Charles Ballard) based at Research Complex at Harwell, same campus
- eBIC provides cryo-EM access through Instruct-ERIC
- XChem fragment screening facility on I04-1 beamline
- Robert Rambo (ScAtter developer) is at Diamond
- Peter Chang (NIAC Documentation Release Manager) is at Diamond
- ISPyB information management system used across European synchrotrons
Funding
- STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council) / UKRI
- Wellcome Trust
Key Reference
Diamond website: https://www.diamond.ac.uk