'Cool' crystals: Macromolecular cryocrystallography and radiation damage

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 545-551

  Garman, Elspeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

CRYOBIOLOGY; CRYOPROTECTION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIFFRACTION; EXPERIMENT; HEATING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOW TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; MACROMOLECULE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SAMPLE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNCHROTRON;

EID: 0141987861     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2003.09.013     Document Type: Review

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