Figure 4
A gallery of some cryopins currently available. (a) Pins used at SPring-8, Japan (Ueno et al., 2004), (b) Oxford Cryosystems nickel pin, (c) Hampton Research brass pin on stainless base, and (d) SPINE (Structural Proteomics in Europe) pin machined for use with robotic sample changers and having a data matrix barcode on its base to allow tracking of a sample through the experimental structure-determination process. |