Abstract
Today Scientific Data launched a collection of publications describing data from X-ray free-electron lasers under the theme ‘Structural Biology Applications of X-ray Lasers’. The papers cover data on nanocrystals, single virus particles, isolated cell organelles, and living cells. All data are deposited with the Coherent X-ray Imaging Data Bank (CXIDB) and available to the scientific community to develop ideas, tools and procedures to meet challenges with the expected torrents of data from new X-ray lasers, capable of producing billion exposures per day.
Highlights
Today Scientific Data launched a collection of publications describing data from X-ray free-electron lasers under the theme ‘Structural Biology Applications of X-ray Lasers’
The six data descriptors in the Collection come from the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS)[3], the first hard X-ray FEL in the world
LCLS delivers just over 10 million X-ray pulses per day and the peak brightness of these pulses exceeds that of present synchrotrons by 1010
Summary
Today Scientific Data launched a collection of publications describing data from X-ray free-electron lasers under the theme ‘Structural Biology Applications of X-ray Lasers’. The European X-ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL)[2] offers the possibility to record a billion diffraction patterns in a single working day on objects as small as single macromolecules or as big as nanocrystals and living cells. The Collection of Data Descriptors launched today at Scientific Data will help this process and heralds the beginning of an explosive new era[4,5,6,7,8,9] (http://www.nature.com/sdata/collections/ xfel-biodata).
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