Abstract
Here, the establishment of Europe's largest high-throughput crystallization facility with open access to the general user community is reported. The facility covers every step in the crystallization process from the preparation of crystallization cocktails for initial or customized screens to the setup of hanging-drop vapour-diffusion experiments and their automatic imaging. In its first year of operation, 43 internal and 40 external users submitted over 500 samples for a total of 2985 crystallization plates. An electronic booking system for registration, the selection of experimental parameters (e.g. drop size, sample-to-reservoir ratio) and the reservation of time slots was developed. External users can choose from more than 1000 initial crystallization conditions. By default, experiments are kept for six months and are imaged 15 times during this time period. A remote viewing system is available to inspect experiments via the internet. Over 100 stock solutions are available for users wishing to design customized screens.
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