Paul Emsley

Paul Emsley is the creator and lead developor of COOT, a widely used software for visualizing, manipulating, refining and validating structural models produced by X-ray crystallography. An interesting history of events leading to the creation of COOT can be found here, and and interesting perspective of the ongoing journey to develop COOT can be found here.

During his talk, Paul covered recent efforts to develop tools within COOT to analyze protein:ligand complexes, specifically to assist with the editing and design of ligand coordinates, as well as the automated scoring of protein:ligand complexes.

Paul’s presentation can be viewed here.

Acknowledgements

This venture would not be possible without generous funding from the ACA. We are grateful for the financial support. In addition, we would like to thank James Holton for continuing to provide logistical support. We are also indebted to our speakers for their time sharing experience and advice. Finally, thank you to Ms. Alyssa Crick for graphic design.