[EN] Revealing the structure of crystals and proteins with CrystFEL - Thomas White

About this episode

Thomas White discusses the CrystFEL tool for analyzing the structure of crystals and proteins.

English Edition: Meet Thomas White from DESY (German Electron Synchrotron) who is the creator and maintainer of the tool CrystFEL. The tool to help understand and analyse the structure of materials such as crystals and proteins. Thomas and I dive into the details of the science and experimental setup - and, of course, the software tool he created. Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_diffraction https://www.cfel.de https://www.desy.de/~twhite/crystfel/ https://...

People in this episode

Host: Peter Schmidt

Guest: Thomas White

Topics covered

• crystal structure
• protein analysis
• X-ray diffraction
• scientific tools
• experimental setup

Keywords

• CrystFEL
• crystals
• proteins
• X-ray diffraction
• DESY
• scientific software

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DESY, CrystFEL, German Electron Synchrotron, CFEL, Wikipedia

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