Fully automated, sequential tilt-series acquisition with Leginon

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-18

  Suloway, Christian ^a   Shi, Jian ^a   Cheng, Anchi ^b   Pulokas, James ^b   Carragher, Bridget ^b   Potter, Clinton S ^b   Zheng, Shawn Q ^c   Agard, David A ^c   Jensen, Grant J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automation; Cryo electron microscopy; Electron microscopy; TEM; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGING SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 67349173210     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2009.03.019     Document Type: Article

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