Paul Emsley (crystallographer)

This article is about the scientist. For the artist, see Paul Emsley.
Paul Emsley
2016
Born (1966-03-16) 16 March 1966 (age 58)
NationalityBritish
Known forCoot (software)

Paul Emsley is a British crystallographer at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.[1] He works as an independent scientist and is a member of the Computational Crystallography Group headed by Garib Murshudov.[2]

Emsley is the primary author of the model-building software Coot,[3][4] a tool for building models of proteins whose three dimensional structures are determined via X-ray crystallography or cryo-EM. These protein structures are deposited at the Worldwide Protein Data Bank for collaboration among scientists.[5] Since its introduction in 2004, Coot has remained as free software for use in industrial and academic research groups.

Emsley has given lectures and tutorials on model-building and validation at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and as CCP4 courses, where he is also a developer and contributor.[6]

  1. ^ Paul Emsley publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. ^ "Murshudov Group". www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  3. ^ Emsley, P. and Cowtan, K., 2004. Coot: model-building tools for molecular graphics. Acta Crystallographica Section D, 60(12), pp.2126-2132.
  4. ^ Emsley, P., Lohkamp, B., Scott, W.G. and Cowtan, K., 2010. Features and development of Coot. Acta Crystallographica Section D, 66(4), pp.486-501.
  5. ^ "wwPDB: Worldwide Protein Data Bank". www.wwpdb.org. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  6. ^ "CCP4 People". www.ccp4.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2020.