Dusko Odic

TL;DR: This work shows that high-quality diffraction data can be obtained with a single X-ray pulse from a non-crystalline biological sample, a single mimivirus particle, which was injected into the pulsed beam of a hard-X-ray free-electron laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source.

TL;DR: It is shown that a beam of aerosolised cyanobacteria can be introduced into the focus of the Linac Coherent Light Source and record diffraction patterns from individual living cells at very low noise levels and at high hit ratios, and it is demonstrated that it is possible torecord diffraction data to nanometer resolution on live cells with X-ray lasers.

TL;DR: The dataset used for the first 3D reconstruction of a biological object from an X-ray FEL, which was the giant Mimivirus, is presented and could boost algorithm development and provide a benchmark dataset for new algorithms.

TL;DR: This paper presents two data sets from micron-sized cyanobacteria obtained at the Linac Coherent Light Source, containing a total of 199,000 diffraction patterns, requiring the development of new analysis methods and algorithms for studying structure and structural variability in large populations of cells and to create abstract models.