Structural biology at the European X-ray free-electron laser facility

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1647, 2014, Pages

  Altarelli, Massimo ^a   Mancuso, Adrian P ^a  

^a EUROPEAN XFEL GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Free electron lasers; Structural biology; X ray instrumentation; X ray lasers

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER METHOD; MANUFACTURING; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EUROPE; GERMANY; HAMBURG [GERMANY];

BIOLOGY; DEVICES; ELECTRON; EUROPE; LASER; PROCEDURES; RESEARCH; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BIOLOGY; ELECTRONS; EUROPE; LASERS; RESEARCH; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84902668990     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0311     Document Type: Review

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