Advances in the field of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy over the last decade

Nature Protocols

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 209-212

  Frank, Joachim ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; SINGLE PARTICLE CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOFTWARE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEVICES; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 85010949829     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2017.004     Document Type: Review

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