Characterizing a crystal from an initial native dataset

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 364, Issue , 2007, Pages 95-120

  Sawaya, M R ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Matthew's coefficient; Merohedral twinning; Native Patterson map; Noncrystallographic symmetry; Self rotation function

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIMERIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ALGORITHMS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIMERIZATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 36549053563     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1385/1-59745-266-1:95     Document Type: Article

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