The morning was first spent with Raymund Fromme( the husband of Petra Fromme). We were preparing vapor diffusion plates for another protein. It was comforting that I knew what, why and how we were doing the technique.

I then spent an hour with Gabbi. She showed how software is used to analyse the data. First the X-ray diffaction data(1 exposure 8Mb, 500 exposures) is used to create the electron density map. Using more software the electron density map s then used to create an atom structure model. This can be very time consuming. One example took 1 1/2 years as it needed so many iterations.
Finally the atom model can be transfromed into a ribbon model.