Determining crystal structures through crowdsourcing and coursework

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Horowitz, Scott ^a   Koepnick, Brian ^b   Martin, Raoul ^a,c   Tymieniecki, Agnes ^a   Winburn, Amanda A ^d,e   Cooper, Seth ^f   Flatten, Jeff ^g   Rogawski, David S ^h   Koropatkin, Nicole M ^h   Hailu, Tsinatkeab T ^a,i   Jain, Neha ^a   Koldewey, Philipp ^a   Ahlstrom, Logan S ^a   Chapman, Matthew R ^a   Sikkema, Andrew P ^h   Skiba, Meredith A ^h   Maloney, Finn P ^a   Beinlich, Felix R M ^a,j   Popovic, Zoran ^g   Baker, David ^b,k   Khatib, Firas ^l   Bardwell, James C A ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g University of Washington   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

ⁱ PROQR THERAPEUTICS   (Netherlands)

^j Institute of Complex Systems   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^l University of Massachusetts Dartmouth   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; HISTIDINE; HISTIDINE TRIAD PROTEIN; HYDROLASE;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON DENSITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CROWDSOURCING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DENSITY; ELECTRON; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; STRUCTURAL MODEL; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT; VIDEO GAME; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CURRICULUM; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SOFTWARE;

CROWDSOURCING; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CURRICULUM; HYDROLASES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84988024265     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12549     Document Type: Article

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