by Peter Nollert
August 26, 2009 15:03
A while ago I lost a bet to Mark here at Emerald: in my foolishness I had predicted that structure determination programs (molecular replacement, SAD phasing and so forth) could be done on a cell phone within a year. I lost the bet, but Mark was a good sport and shared the bottle with the team here at Emerald (wondering though whether anybody has done the feat in the meantime).
The topic of hand held computing in crystallography is still fascinating, nevertheless. Cell phones are used for so many different things now but I'm still waiting a bona fide crystallography application, though. Anything out there?
The closest to what I have seen in this regard was recently at the 2009 ACA meeting in Toronto, Canada. Mark Warren from the University of Bath had cut a rectangular hole in his poster and managed to stick his iPhone right behind it, showing a "Crystallograhic Movie".
Well done, Mark!
Peter