Developments in fiber diffraction

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 615-619

  Stubbs, Gerald ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DIFFRACTION; FIBER; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABORATORY; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNCHROTRON;

EID: 0032846532     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(99)00014-7     Document Type: Review

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