Research
Prism shares Astera Institute’s commitment to radical transparency. By publishing our work as it happens, we aim to maximize its potential for broad impact and reuse.
All of our research outputs are completely open, exist outside of traditional scientific journals, and aim to be FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.
Below are our research posts, where we share our methods, tools, and results. In addition, we maintain the DiffUSE Logbook, a separate and continuously updated record of X-ray datasets, synchrotron notes, data processing reports, and preliminary analysis, published as experiments are completed. Explore the DiffUSE Logbook →
- Diffuse Scattering
- and Modeling
Don't just do something, sit there: Mindful of the MD Model
Proteins can "shift in their seats" depending on where they sit in the lattice.
- Blog
- Data Collection
- and Diffuse Scattering
Varying crystallization conditions to study lattice effects on diffuse scattering
My summer research project in the Ando Lab
- Blog
- Diffuse Scattering
Revealing hidden signals in raw X-ray crystallography data with mdx2
Mdx2 is a powerful and open-source toolkit for diffuse data processing.
- Blog
- Modeling
- and Diffuse Scattering
Is it all just the lattice?
Taylor's update on his work in the diffUSE project and the roadmap to a complete forward model of diffuse scattering.
- Blog
- Diffuse Scattering
Shake It Up!
MD simulations of changes in diffuse scattering depending on ligand binding
- Blog
- Modeling
- and Data Collection and Diffuse Scattering
3-2-1 Contact: Comparing MD simulations with diffuse data
Insights from the first comparisons of MD simulations to diffuse data
- Blog
- Data Collection
- and Diffuse Scattering
Let's dance!
Molecular-dynamics simulations of diffuse scattering
- Blog