Paul Emsley (crystallographer)
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Paul Emsley is a British crystallographer at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.[1] He works as an independent scientist and is a member of the Computational Crystallography Group headed by Garib Murshudov.[2]
Emsley is the primary author of the model-building software Coot,[3][4] a tool for building models of proteins whose three dimensional structures are determined via X-ray crystallography or cryo-EM. These protein structures are deposited at the Worldwide Protein Data Bank for collaboration among scientists.[5] Since its introduction in 2004, Coot has remained as free software for use in industrial and academic research groups.
Emsley has given lectures and tutorials on model-building and validation at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and as CCP4 courses, where he is also a developer and contributor.[6]