mx cryo-em computational software-dev glycoscience
University of York / York Structural Biology Laboratory
Info
Royal Society Olga Kennard Research Fellow at the York Structural Biology Laboratory (YSBL), Department of Chemistry, University of York. Lead developer of Privateer, the carbohydrate structure validation, refinement, and analysis tool - described as “the Swiss Army knife for carbohydrate structure validation.” Privateer has been routinely used in SARS-CoV-2 structure determination that informed mRNA vaccines and inhibitor design. Serves as CCP4 Working Group 2 co-chair.
Key Relationships
- CCP4 Executive Committee — WG2 co-chair
- Privateer — lead developer; successor in spirit to Thomas Lütteke’s pdb-care for glycan validation
- Glycan validation community: Thomas Lütteke (pdb-care historical), PDB-REDO glycan handling
- Co-author on the 2023 CCP4 suite publication
Sources
- CCP4 People page: https://www.ccp4.ac.uk/about/people/
- York profile: https://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/research/ysbl/people/staff/jagirre/
- Privateer software: https://github.com/glycojones/privateer