Dear all, As part of Diamond's effort to combat COVID-19, we are offering fragment screening expertise and infrastructure to users working on COVID-19 related targets (as demonstrated by the recent fragment screening campaign against SAR-CoV-2 Main proteasehttps://www.diamond.ac.uk/covid-19/for-scientists/Main-protease-structure-an...). In order to submit a proposal for COVID-19 related research please complete the Rapid Access Formhttps://fs3.formsite.com/DiamondLightSource/nynlkya9ks/index.html and send a completed XChem Application Formhttps://www.diamond.ac.uk/dam/jcr:690e7c9d-7b4c-4a7d-bc58-9101e9af4df8/XChem... to [email protected]mailto:[email protected]. Due to access and travel restrictions, experienced XChem staff will prepare samples on-site, organise unattended data collection and analyse the data using the XCE pipeline. All data will then be made available to the users and as open access through Fragalysis https://fragalysis.diamond.ac.uk/viewer/react/landing and the Diamond webpage. Further details regarding crystal system requirements, available fragment libraries and screening protocols can be found herehttps://www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/Mx/Fragment-Screening.html. Kind regards, Daren Dr Daren Fearon XChem Beamline Scientist Diamond Light Source Ltd Harwell Science & Innovation Campus Didcot Oxfordshire OX11 0DE Tel: 01235 778936 Email: [email protected]mailto:[email protected] Web: www.diamond.ac.ukhttp://www.diamond.ac.uk/ -- This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential, copyright and or privileged material, and are for the use of the intended addressee only. If you are not the intended addressee or an authorised recipient of the addressee please notify us of receipt by returning the e-mail and do not use, copy, retain, distribute or disclose the information in or attached to the e-mail. Any opinions expressed within this e-mail are those of the individual and not necessarily of Diamond Light Source Ltd. Diamond Light Source Ltd. cannot guarantee that this e-mail or any attachments are free from viruses and we cannot accept liability for any damage which you may sustain as a result of software viruses which may be transmitted in or with the message. Diamond Light Source Limited (company no. 4375679). Registered in England and Wales with its registered office at Diamond House, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, United Kingdom