| Paul Emsley | |
| Birth Date: | 1966 3, df=yes |
| Nationality: | British |
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| Known For: | Coot (software) |
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Paul Emsley is a British crystallographer at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. He works as an independent scientist and is a member of the Computational Crystallography Group headed by Garib Murshudov.[1]
Emsley is the primary author of the model-building software Coot,[2] [3] 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.[4] 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.[5]