Benchmarks are useful, quick tools for measuring the perfomance of a given system.
While they certainly do not provide an absolute measurement of all of the capabilities of the system, they do provide useful information. Since area detectors have become one of the dominant methods employed for solving protein structures in many macromolecular crystallography laboratories we thought it would be useful to develop a method for benchmarking these detectors. We have developed such a benchmark based on peak heights measured on anomalous difference Pattersons. More information is available about the benchmark . Return to Area Detector Benchmarking Home Page .