Techniques¶
What the modelled part of P13 is designed to do, as intent. First cut.
A technique is a portable Catalog Method; a Practice is how a facility adapts it. P13 runs macromolecular crystallography, reusing a Method the fleet already carries pending, so the Method below renders unlinked until a technique enters scope (TECH-1).
Macromolecular crystallography¶
P13 mounts a crystal on the EMBLMiniDiff microdiffractometer (with cryostream cooling), rotates it through an oscillation, and reads frames on the Eiger or Pilatus area detector. It is a high-throughput rotation-MX beamline, with an XRF detector for anomalous-edge identification.
| Technique | Catalog method | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Rotation MX data collection | mx_data_collection |
oscillation collection on the EMBLMiniDiff reading the Eiger / Pilatus, with cryostream cooling; reuses the i03 Method (also at FMX / AMX / MX3 / MANACA / TPS / P11), a further consumer (TECH-1) |
A familiar beamline on an unfamiliar floor¶
P13 is the fleet's seventh macromolecular-crystallography beamline and CORA's first at EMBL Hamburg. It ties into the MX lineage CORA already models: the same goniometer / detector / cryostream anatomy. What is new is not the technique but the floor it runs on: where P11 drives MX through the DESY Tango / Sardana stack, P13 drives it through EMBL's MXCuBE over Exporter + TINE (SEAM-1). It reuses the mx_data_collection Method directly (carried pending across the MX fleet); it forces no new device Family. The automated sample changer is a Procedure, not a new device (the i03 / MX3 / MANACA ROBOT-1 precedent).
Not modelled yet¶
The concrete acquisition recipes (the oscillation sequences and their exposures, the anomalous-edge scans, the sample-changer custody loop) are not written yet; they join as the deployment approaches the point where CORA drives P13. Whether the MX Method enters CORA's catalog is an owner-scope decision on Model; see Open questions for the world-facts to confirm first.