Inspection of DESY and SLS: Bolstering Operations of the Pharmaceutical Industrial Beamline And Making the XFEL Plan a Reality in Japan

摘要

In view of the future plan to operate the SPring-8 pharmaceutical industrial beamline (BL), the Pharmaceutical Consortium for Protein Structure Analysis (PCProt) held its third overseas inspection in April this year. This inspection included a visit to Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, Germany, which engages in research into synchrotron radiation on the basis of research in high-energy physics, to gather information about the current situation and its future development. At the Zur- ich-based Swiss Light Source (SLS), which had started a commissioned protein diffraction data measurement service, the PCProt mission performed actual measurement using a protein specimen that it supplied as a user to obtain useful information about the capabilities of the facility and its operating system.