Overview

The DNA project is a collaboration initially between the ESRF, the CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory and MRC-LMB in Cambridge, with the aim of completely automating the collection and processing of X-Ray protein crystallography data. Travel funds for encouraging this collaboration are provided by the ec MAX_INF project (see www.ccp4.ac.uk/maxinf).

The version 1.0.0 of DNA was released on the 1st of December 2004. There is a (slightly old) project description written by Andrew Leslie available here.

The DNA system contains a number of modules, where each module is specialised in a particular task:

The DNA 1.0.0 flow diagram shows in detail how the DNA system works today.

More detail on the different packages within the DNA project will shortly be available here. Information on how to run the DNA system will also soon be added (here's a page describing the various configuration parameters.)

Although the core DNA team is rather small, we are open to including more collaborators, and to ensuring compatibility between the DNA project and other projects with a similar aim.