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Science 13 April 2001:
Vol. 292. no. 5515, pp. 187 - 188
DOI: 10.1126/science.292.5515.187a
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STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY:
Robots Enter the Race to Analyze Proteins

Robert F. Service

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA--Earlier this week, researchers at the Advanced Light Source here were scheduled to begin using a new robot to automate the laborious process of mounting protein crystals in a synchrotron's x-ray beamline and then collecting and analyzing the data. Once fully operational, the robot could boost the number of protein structures that can be solved at a beamline nearly 10-fold to about 1000 per year.

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