This readme.txt file was generated on 2020-05-31 by Robert Henderson


GENERAL INFORMATION

1. Title of Dataset: Data Supporting ‘Modes of action of the archaeal Mre11-Rad50 DNA-repair complex revealed by Fast-scan atomic force microscopy’


2. Author Information
	A. Principal Investigator Contact Information
		Name: Robert M. Henderson
		Institution: University of Cambridge
		Address: Department of Pharmacology, Cambridge CB2 1PD, UK 
		Email: rmh1003@cam.ac.uk 

	B. Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information
		Name: Dr Nicholas P. Robinson
		Institution: Lancaster University
		Address: Department of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Faculty 		of Health and Medicine, Lancaster LA1 4YG, UK 
		Email: n.robinson2@lancaster.ac.uk

	
3. Date of data collection: 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31

4. Geographic location of data collection: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

5. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council grant BB/J018236/1; Medical Research Council Career Development Award (G0701443; Isaac Newton Trust Research Grant (Trinity College and Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge) 


SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION

1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence.

2. Links to publications that cite or use the data: Accepted for Publication in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.


DATA & FILE OVERVIEW

1. File List: 
Folder ‘Zabolotnaya et al Data’ contains 8 folders named Saci*.* and two folders named Supplementary Fig 5A and Supplementary Figure 5B. These contain sub-folders with raw atomic force microscope (AFM) data files (Bruker Nanoscope format) and preliminary AFM images (in *.tif or *.png format).
Folders ‘Supp Movie 1 Frames’ to ‘Supp Movie 4 frames’ contain Bruker Nanoscope files and derived *.jpg files that contribute to the four movies in the Supplementary Appendix. 

METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION

1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: 
Data collected using Bruker Dimension FastScan Bio Atomic Force Microscope.

2. Methods for processing the data: 
Processed using Bruker Nanoscope software, ImageJ image processing software and SPIP™ Scanning Probe Image Processor software.

3. Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data: Nanoscope Analysis software Version 1.5 


8. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: 

Authors are Ekaterina Zabolotnaya (designed and performed research), Ioanna Mela (designed and performed research), Mark Williamson (designed and performed research), Sian M. Bray (performed research), Siu Kei Yau (performed research), Dimitra Papatziamou (performed research), J. Michael Edwardson (designed research), Nicholas P. Robinson (designed and performed research), and Robert M. Henderson (designed research)..