About Us
Background
The Berkeley Center for Structural Biology (BCSB) is a national user facility operating under the aegis of LBNL’s Physical Biosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. An umbrella organization, the BCSB operates five protein crystallography beamlines at the Advanced Light Source (ALS). In June of 1998, BCSB staff welcomed the first research teams to Beamline 5.0.2; Beamline 5.0.1 came online in 1999, followed by Beamline 5.0.3 in 2000. Beamlines 8.2.1 and 8.2.2 began operation in 2003. Since inception the BCSB has represented an unusual partnership among industrial, academic, national laboratory, and non-profit researchers. These five beamlines have been uncommonly productive when considered across the metrics of publication record, number of solved structures, and scientific merit and significance of work.
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BCSB Acknowledgement and Attribution
Please include the following acknowledgement in any publications resulting from work
conducted at the BCSB:
Portions of this research were conducted at the Advanced Light Source a national user
facility operated by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, on behalf of the U.S.
Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences. The Berkeley Center for
Structural Biology is supported in part by the Department of Energy, Office of Biological
and Environmental Research, and by the National Institutes of Health, National
Institute of General Medical Sciences.
Please send us your citation -- we’d like to hear about your work: BCSBBeamtime@lbl.gov.
Also, authors please report publications resulting from work conducted at the ALS to the ALS Users' Office.
And congratulations on your publication!