DIALS: Diffraction Integration for Advanced Light Sources

Registration link: indico.classe.cornell.edu/event/2530/overview

The program will start with a combined morning plenary session for participants of both workshops, followed by an afternoon parallel session with hands-on tutorials specific to X-CITE and DIALS. When registering, please select “X-CITE” or “DIALS” for the hands-on tutorial.

We welcome participants of all levels of experience! For those who are new to scientific computing, we will distribute pre-workshop introductory lessons about two weeks before the workshop (mid-May) covering topics including: remote access, Linux, Python, and the CHESS research workflow. We will also address any questions about these topics during virtual office hours to be scheduled before June 4. The workshop materials on June 4 will assume familiarity with Linux and Python at the level of the pre-workshop introductory lessons.

DIALS will teach beginning and intermediate data processing for protein crystallography. We will introduce the use of DIALS through two hands-on examples. First, we will perform routine processing of a typical single-crystal dataset. Second, we will explore an advanced example with multiple small-rotation sweeps in which several closely related forms are present. Participants will gain a practical understanding of the DIALS workflow and will be ready to start applying it to their own datasets. After the organized tutorial, we will provide an office hours session for participants to continue experimenting with the tutorial data or discuss their own DIALS questions.

While the workshop is suitable for anyone who has a basic awareness of macromolecular crystallography, we also encourage experienced users to attend, including beamline scientists who wish to automate DIALS processing for their users. The office hours session will be for all experience levels. We especially hope to provide enough information for crystallographers who are "DIALS-curious" to evaluate whether it could be a valuable part of their tool set.

Tutorial data and DIALS installers will be provided in advance.