Automating crystal harvesting and mounting for high-throughput macromolecular crystallography

Proceedings of the World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA)

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 4650-4655

  Chen, Weidong ^a   Peddi, Avinash ^b   Zheng, Yuan F ^b   Caffrey, Martin ^b,c  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Capillary; Crystal harvesting; Protein crystallization; Vision based object tracking

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY; CRYSTAL HARVESTING; PROTEIN CRYSTALLIZATION; VISION-BASED OBJECT TRACKING;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CRYSTAL GROWTH; GENES; MOUNTINGS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROTEINS; VISION;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 4444243108     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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