On behalf of CCP4 Organizing Committee, it is our privilege to invite you to the 5th CCP4 Workshop, Oct 26-31, 2017, in Guangzhou, China! The CCP4 workshop organised by the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health,Chinese Academy of Sciences. We are honored to host this event, for the 5th time, and look forward to welcoming our friends and colleagues from around the world.
The theme of CCP4 Workshop is to cover all aspects of the structure solution process in macromolecular crystallography, starting from data processing, through phasing and refinement, and ending with validation and deposition.
The course is intended mainly for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from China in the area of structural biology. The workshop is not meant as an introductory level course to protein crystallography. It is designed more for applicants with some expertise in crystallography and wanting to gain more experience with the CCP4 suite. The purpose of the workshop is to address specific problems that the applicants face while processing diffraction data and while solving and refining novel structures.
Several of the leading PX software developers from around the world will present lectures and tutorials on their software and will also be available to help with problems during hands-on sessions of the school.
The workshop will cover many popular programs used for data processing and structure solution with the software developers available to help throughout the week. Programs covered will include: Mosflm, Scala, Refmac, Coot, Crank, Balbes, Mrbump, Buccaneer and many more.

While attending CCP4 Workshop in Guangzhou, we hope that you feel completely at home, as we try our best to match the hospitality offered by earlier hosts of CCP4 workshop. We hope that you will take the opportunity to socialize and network with new acquaintances, and build upon those relationships which have already been established to sustain our collaboration. Registration is open on June 20, 2017, and hotel reservation may be made directly with the hotel by internet, phone or email. We extend the warmest welcome to all, and hope that you enjoy CCP4 Workshop, the associated Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health Institute and the CCP4 committee.