Dear Scott, We had a UV inspection microscope from KORIMA to look at crystals by UV fluorescence. It works relatively well but it is expensive ( way too much in my opinion), you pay for the microscope, the UV source and the software (named Wasabi) that comes with it An alternative to that is described in the paper from Alan D'Arcy and coll. Acta Cryst D63 (2007) p550-554. They use a DUVI 204 LIght source (from PLS design GmbH , in germany) adapted to their Crystal Score system. If I understood well, this is a just a UV source light adapted to your microscope of choice. It is probably much cheaper and as efficient.
Hope this helps. -- Pascal F. Egea, PhD Assistant Professor UCLA, David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Biological Chemistry 314 Biomedical Sciences Research Building office (310)-983-3515 lab (310)-983-3516 email pe...@mednet.ucla.edu
