Congratulations on your amazing discovery, which immediately suggests many new lines of inquiry:
Does dark matter affect macromolecular stability? Can it explain the difficulty some students have in sample preparation? Is it found in higher concentrations in brains that are thought to be denser (we won't say by whom)? ===================================== Phoebe A. Rice Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology The University of Chicago phone 773 834 1723 http://bmb.bsd.uchicago.edu/Faculty_and_Research/01_Faculty/01_Faculty_Alphabetically.php?faculty_id=123 http://www.rsc.org/shop/books/2008/9780854042722.asp ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:06:47 -0700 >From: CCP4 bulletin board <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> (on behalf of Ethan Merritt ><merr...@u.washington.edu>) >Subject: [ccp4bb] Crystallographic Breakthrough - DarkMatter Version 1.0 >To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > >Hi to all on ccp4bb: > >What better day to announce the availability of a breakthrough technique >in macromolecular crystallography? > >Given recent discussion and in particular James Holton's suggestion that >the problem of disordered sidechains is a problem akin to the difficulty >of describing dark matter and dark energy... > >I am happy to announce a new crystallographic tool that can improve your >model by accounting for an often-neglected physical property. A detailed >explanation, references, and a preliminary implementation of the program >can be downloaded from > > http://skuld.bmsc.washington.edu/DarkMatter > >-- >Ethan A Merritt >Karmic Diffraction Project >Fine crystallography since April 1, 2011 >"What goes around, comes around - usually as a symmetry equivalent"
