Circular Dichroism allows biochemists, structural biologists, and biophysicists to determine folding (sheets and helices) in secondary and tertiary protein structure. Additionally, options for other types of biomolecules exist - helicity of DNA, thermal perturbation, and mechanistic time-course studies are possible.
Folding data impact both the research (target binding, structure) and development (consistency, fill-finish) steps of the pharmaceutical process. Integration with the TDP allows data capture of both raw and formatted spectra, and analysis of this data against other confirmatory spectroscopy or physical techniques.
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