GM/CA's Mission

The GM/CA @ APS project was established by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop and operate a national user facility for structure determination of biological macromolecules by X-ray crystallography. Our mission is to support challenging biomedical problems by providing a resource with state-of-the-art synchrotron technology.

GM/CA provides beam time on a peer-reviewed basis to the biological research community for investigations requiring advanced synchrotron capabilities. The scientific and technical goals of the GM/CA @ APS emphasize streamlined, efficient throughput for a variety of sample types, sizes and qualities, representing the cutting edge of structural biology research. The GM/CA @ APS facility offers X-ray beams of exceptional stability and tunability, equipment to reliably manipulate samples in the X-ray beam and record diffraction data, a powerful biologist-friendly user interface, and a pipeline for data processing with modern software.

 

 


GM/CA @ APS Sponsors: National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) and National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

  APS is an Office of Science User Facility operated for the U.S. Department of Energy by Argonne National Laboratory

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