Ink-jet printer heads for ultra-small-drop protein crystallography

BioTechniques

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1302-1306

  Howard, E I ^a,b,e   Cachau, R E ^c,d  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b Grupo de Fisica del Solido   (Argentina)

^c SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e Instituto de Fisica de Liquidos y Sistemas Biologicos   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PROTEINS;

INK JET PRINTER HEADS;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRINTING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEOMICS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036918605     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/02336pt03     Document Type: Article

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