E pluribus unum, no more: From one crystal, many conformations

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 56-62

  Woldeyes, Rahel A ^a   Sivak, David A ^a   Fraser, James S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DIFFRACTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LASER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; ROOM TEMPERATURE; X RAY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS; ELECTRON DENSITY MAP; ENTROPY; MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; X RAY FREE ELECTRON LASER; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFORMATION;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION;

EID: 84905640736     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2014.07.005     Document Type: Review

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