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About Paul Emsley (crystallographer)
- Paul Emsley is a British crystallographer and a member of the Computational Crystallography Group headed by Garib Murshudov at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.Emsley is the primary author of the model-building software Coot, a tool for building models of proteins whose three dimensional structures are determined via X-ray crystallography or cryo-EM.
- These protein structures are deposited at the Worldwide Protein Data Bank for collaboration among scientists.
- Since its introduction in 2004, Coot has remained as free software for use in industrial and academic research groups. Emsley has given lectures and tutorials on model-building and validation at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and as CCP4 courses, where he is also a developer and contributor.
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