EMBL Hamburg’s Sample Preparation and Characterisation (SPC) Facility offers scientists access to almost all available biophysics technologies. The SPC Facility staff provides advice and helps users, including those without a background in biophysics or structural biology, to perform measurements.
Located at the Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB), the facility is just a few meters away from the EMBL beamlines for crystallography and SAXS, and from the CSSB’s cryo-EM facility. Being able to prepare samples and conduct X-ray or cryo-EM experiments during a single visit gives the users the flexibility to quickly adjust their sample preparation protocol for their measurements.
Users can also send their samples to EMBL Hamburg to use the SPC Facility and the EMBL beamlines remotely.
The SPC Facility is part of several European transnational access programs, such as iNEXT-Discovery, Instruct-ERIC, and MOSBRI, which facilitate scientists’ access to research infrastructures.
The facility also created the eSPC platform, where users can analyse data from biophysics experiments, for free and from home .
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eSPC data analysis platform: [ Ссылка ]
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