17-ID-B: Sector 17 - Insertion Device
IMCA-CAT
Life Sciences
Life Sciences
Optimized for proprietary structure-based drug design, IMCA-CAT is dedicated to high-throughput macromolecular crystallography for the pharmaceutical industry. The beamline is equipped with industrial-strength high-speed robotics and automated for sample mounting, diffraction centering, data acquisition, and data processing. Mail-in access, only.
Beamline Specifications
Source : 3.3 Undulator (Undulator A)
Monochromator Type : Si(111)
Energy Range : 6-20 keV
Resolution : 1.5 x 10-4
Flux : 8 x 1012 @12.4 keV
Beam Size Hxv :
Focused : 5µm x 5µm
Monochromator Type : Si(111)
Energy Range : 6-20 keV
Resolution : 1.5 x 10-4
Flux : 8 x 1012 @12.4 keV
Beam Size Hxv :
Focused : 5µm x 5µm
Quick Stats
Current Status
Commissioning
Commissioning
Access Mode
Mail-in
Mail-in
Special Capabilities
Pharmaceutical drug discovery. Proprietary structure-based drug design.
Pharmaceutical drug discovery. Proprietary structure-based drug design.
Beamline Contacts
Beamline Techniques
Macromolecular crystallography
Multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion
Microbeam
Single-wavelength anomalous dispersion
Large unit cell crystallography
Subatomic (<0.85 Å) resolution
Endstations
17-ID-B
monochromatic beam station (3.5m x 7m)
monochromatic beam station (3.5m x 7m)
17-ID-B
macromolecular crystallography
macromolecular crystallography
Detectors
Dectris Eiger2 X 9M Pixel Array
Rontec X-Flash SDD for fluorescence spectroscopy
Equipment
Rigaku ACTOR2S industrial robot (Unipucks only; capacity for 672 samples)
Oxford Instruments cryojet
AIM Concepts air bearing goniometer
On-axis sample visualization system
Automatic filling of liquid nitrogen dewars
User-accessible computers for data processing
Biochemistry Laboratory for sample preparation
>60 TB Storage System
Additional Information
Additional Information
https://www.imca-cat.org
https://www.imca-cat.org
Software
Epics; GUI for beamline control (including energy or wavelength, energy scans for MAD, attenuation, beam size); auto and manual data collection; Global Phasing autoPROC for auto data processing; and SynchWeb/ISPyB for communicating sample information.
Epics; GUI for beamline control (including energy or wavelength, energy scans for MAD, attenuation, beam size); auto and manual data collection; Global Phasing autoPROC for auto data processing; and SynchWeb/ISPyB for communicating sample information.
Beamline Controls and Data Acquisition
Epics; GUI for beamline control (including energy or wavelength, energy scans for MAD, attenuation, beam size); auto and manual data collection; Global Phasing autoPROC for auto data processing; and SynchWeb/ISPyB for communicating sample information.
Epics; GUI for beamline control (including energy or wavelength, energy scans for MAD, attenuation, beam size); auto and manual data collection; Global Phasing autoPROC for auto data processing; and SynchWeb/ISPyB for communicating sample information.