Beamline Attributes
| Maximum resolution | 0.66 Å @ 24.0 keV 0.93 Å @ 17.0 keV 1.3 Å @ 12.7 keV 2.7 Å @ 6.0 keV |
| Typical exposure time | 2 ms / frame (rotation method) |
News at BioMAX
- BioMAX remote users can test a new VPN-less application to run the remote server from a browser window. The url is ras.maxiv.lu.se . This tool is still undergoing testing, so make sure that VPN access works before your beamtime.
- Current software used by the autoprocessing pipelines:
- XDS build from Nov 2025, except AutoPROC, running the July 2025 build.
- CCP4-9.0.13
- Dials-v3-25-0
- autoProc-20250717
- For a recent example data set collected at BioMAX, see https://scicat.maxiv.lu.se/datasets/20.500.14080%2F0fbfa164-9de6-46d0-9bce-b2b252f42df8
- Recommended values for data collection in MXCuBE :
- Energy: 17 keV.
- Exposure time for rotation data collection: 2 ms (with 0.1 degree rotation per frame) . For mesh scans and characterization shots use 10 ms or longer.
- Note on manually processing Eiger2 XE CdTe 16M data: Beware that the program generate_XDS.INP does not generate the correct SILICON keyword for the CdTe sensor. You need to add the correct SILICON keyword in your XDS.INP file or use the MAX IV XDS.INP generated by the autoprocessing; this file can be found in the biomax data disk under ‘proposal’/’date’/process/’protein’/’sampleid’/xds_sampleid’. You can use the same value for different data sets as long as the X-ray wavelength is the same.
Experiments at BioMAX
For information about proposal submission, beamtime application and experiment preparation please see Roadmap to beamtime at BioMAX
For shared facilities and procedures between BioMAX and the sister MX beamline MicroMAX, see MX User Information