Assessing and maximizing data quality in macromolecular crystallography

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 34, Issue , 2015, Pages 60-68

  Karplus, P Andrew ^a   Diederichs, Kay ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; DATA QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACROMOLECULE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM ERROR; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

MACROMOLECULE;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DATA ACCURACY; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84939446536     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2015.07.003     Document Type: Review

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