May 2024 Newsletter

May 21, 2024

YASARA is a molecular-graphics, -modeling and -simulation program for Windows, Linux, MacOS and Android developed since 1993, that finally makes it really easy to answer your questions. With an intuitive user interface, photorealistic graphics and support for virtual reality headsets, shutter glasses, autostereoscopic displays and input devices, YASARA creates a new level of interaction with the 'artificial reality', that allows you to focus on your goal and forget about the details of the program.

YASARA is powered by PVL (Portable Vector Language), a new development framework that provides performance way above traditional software. PVL allows you to visualize even the largest proteins and enables true interactive real-time simulations with highly accurate force fields on standard PCs, making use of GPUs if available (see benchmarks). You can push and pull molecules around and work with dynamic models instead of static pictures.

Employee spotlight

Chun-Liang (Chun) Chen began his journey in Structural Biology as an undergraduate student. He received training in Structural Biology and Biophysics during his graduate and postdoctoral programs. He has experience in utilizing X-ray crystallography and cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to determine macromolecular structures (proteins and viruses). He has acquired techniques for protein production in prokaryotic and eukaryotic expression systems, protein purification using various strategies, enzyme kinetics, and structure determination of macromolecules.

Featured services

MX Data Collection Service

Helix is a world leader in synchrotron X-ray data collection. We make it extremely simple to schedule your desired data collection using our booking website. Helix takes care of the entire process, including handling all the shipping logistics (including making shipping paperwork), synchrotron agreements/forms, and storage of raw/processed data. With over 50 years of combined synchrotron and industrial data collection experience, our customers rely on Helix for X-ray data collection and stick with us due to our quality, reliability, and continuous access to beamtime. We offer by-the-crystal pricing, so whether you have a few samples or hundreds per week, we can help with your x-ray data collection and help optimize your structure solution process.

Helix Happy Hour

Every month, the Helix team has a Happy Hour. The team gets together, has some snacks and drinks, talks and laughs, having so much fun. The team is dedicated to providing the best quality work and services to our customers, also having fun at work, enjoying each other, and maximizing teamwork. :-)

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Instrument Review

The BiacoreTM T200 & 8K high sensitivity surface plasmon resonance (SPR) systems enable efficient screening, characterization, process optimization, and quality control of small molecules and biotherapeutics.

Helix now has access to the BiacoreTM T200 & 8K instruments and offers custom kinetic binding profiling & analysis, Fab/Ag kinetic binding profile & analysis, and antibody screen services.

We are excited to provide our clients with various biophysical characterization services (ITC, SPR, BLI, MST, DLS, TSA, CD, LC/MS, SEC-MALS, Mass Photometry, and more).