A review of the strategies for obtaining high-quality crystals utilizing nanotechnologies and microgravity

Critical Reviews in Eukaryotic Gene Expression

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 325-339

  Pechkova, Eugenia ^a,b,c   Bragazzi, Nicola ^a,b,c   Bozdaganyan, Marine ^a   Belmonte, Luca ^a,b   Nicolini, Claudio ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b Nanoworld Institute Fondazione ELBA Nicolini (FEN)   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Clustering algorithm; Langmuir Blodgett (LB); Microgravity; Protein alignment; Space grown crystals

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CRYSTAL; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFUSION; GEL; LANGMUIR BLODGETT FILM; METHODOLOGY; MICROGRAVITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; VAPOR; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; STANDARDS; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

PROTEIN;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CRYSTALLIZATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROTEINS; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 84903621858     PISSN: 10454403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevEukaryotGeneExpr.2014008275     Document Type: Article

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