Progresses on developing screening kits for protein crystallization

Progress in Biochemistry and Biophysics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 280-287

  Zhang, Xian Fang ^a   Liu, Jun ^a   Guo, Yun Zhu ^a   Ma, Xiao Liang ^a   Yin, Da Chuan ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Incomplete factorial design; Protein crystallization; Screening kits; Sparse matrix sampling; Systematic screening

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955810996     PISSN: 10003282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1206.2010.00361     Document Type: Article

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