The collection of MicroED data for macromolecular crystallography

Nature Protocols

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 895-904

  Shi, Dan ^a   Nannenga, Brent L ^a   De La Cruz, M Jason ^a   Liu, Jinyang ^a   Sawtelle, Steven ^a   Calero, Guillermo ^b   Reyes, Francis E ^a   Hattne, Johan ^a   Gonen, Tamir ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ETHANE; NANOCRYSTAL; MACROMOLECULE; NANOPARTICLE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MACROMOLECULAR CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MICROED DATA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEVICES; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MACROMOLECULE; PROCEDURES;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DATA COLLECTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; NANOPARTICLES; PROTEINS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84983516276     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2016.046     Document Type: Article

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