New approaches to high-throughput phasing

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 674-678

  Dauter, Zbigniew ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INORGANIC SALT; PHOSPHORUS; SULFUR;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHM; ATOM; CHEMICAL REACTION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DERIVATIZATION; DIFFRACTION; DISPERSION; ELECTRON; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACROMOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNCHROTRON;

EID: 0036815756     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(02)00372-X     Document Type: Review

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