Special arrangements exist for some research groups wishing to do protein crystallography. Applicants requiring longer-term or continued access to ISIS should apply for beamtime through a research grant, specifying the number of days required and giving full justification for this access. In all cases, applications for time on ISIS will be reviewed by the Biology Neutron Advisory Panel. It is possible to apply for beamtime-only grants, although the application must describe a research project and justify the beamtime requested. Help is available to users via telephone and email.
Registration is free to academic users.
Access to information resources is free of charge. A small charge is made for seeds to cover the cost of production, storage and postage. Physcomitrella patens offers a powerful tool to study the function of plant genes. A PMS-funded project at the University of Leeds will sequence 30,000 ESTs from the moss and provide a valuable resource for functional genomics in plants, complementing those provided under the IGF Initiative . Potentially interesting gene sequences identified in other plants may be tested rapidly for function in the moss system.