The Leeuwenhoek lecture 2006. Microscopy goes cold: Frozen viruses reveal their structural secrets

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1502, 2008, Pages 2441-2451

  Crowther, R A ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electron cryomicroscopy; Hepatitis B virus; Image processing; Virus structure

Indexed keywords

FREEZING; HEPATITIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROSCOPY; MODELING; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRUS;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 45249115226     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2150     Document Type: Review

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