PETRA-III Webcam
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EMBL Hamburg will build an integrated infrastructure for life science applications using synchrotron radiation. The future facilities will be situated at the PETRA storage ring, which is operated by Helmholtz Research Centre DESY in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld. The ring will be converted into a dedicated low emittance synchrotron radiation facility with expected leading optical parameters, named PETRA-III.
EMBL will be in charge of building and operating three undulator beamlines of which two will be dedicated to macromolecular X-ray crystallography and one to small angle X-ray scattering applications of biological material. The future beamlines will be integrated into advanced facilities for biological sample preparation and characterisation as well as for X-ray data processing and evaluation. The EMBL beamlines are expected to be operational in 2010. Access to these beamlines will be selected and prioritised based on scientific criteria only. The project is open for specific partnerships with other academic organisations and industrial enterprises.
