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Most of the macromolecules that we study relate to one or more of a few broad biological areas: cellular signal transduction, metalloproteins, infectious diseases, antibiotic resistance, etc. We are currently members of the Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Disease, an NIAID project focused on human pathogens. We use the proteins we study as test cases for methodology development. Our tools are used throughout the world and address a wide range of scientific problems, from diffraction image processing to metal environment geometries to various applications of big data concepts. 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