Macromolecular Crystallography

The Molecular Observatory provides the Caltech community with exceptional capabilities in macromolecular crystallography.

• A high intensity, completely automated synchrotron radiation beam line at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) and funded by the Moore Foundation, provides state-of-the-art data collection capabilities.
• An on-campus Macromolecular Crystallization Laboratory housed in the Beckman Institute provides robotic and manual facilities for protein crystallization.
• An in-house generator for crystal screening and data collection in the Macromolecular X-ray Crystallography Facility.

Publications resulting from data collected through the support of the Molecular Observatory should acknowledge Donald and Judith Voet, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Beckman Institute for their generous support of the Molecular Observatory at Caltech. Operations at SSRL are supported by the US DOE and NIH.

Other Resources

• The Small Molecule X-ray Crystallography Facility at Caltech obtains X-ray diffraction data from crystalline materials and determines the structures of small molecules from single-crystal diffraction data.