Automating tasks in protein structure determination with the clipper python module

Protein Science

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 207-216

  McNicholas, Stuart ^a   Croll, Tristan ^b   Burnley, Tom ^c   Palmer, Colin M ^c   Hoh, Soon Wen ^a   Jenkins, Huw T ^a   Dodson, Eleanor ^a   Cowtan, Kevin ^a   Agirre, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

automation; Clipper; crystallography; electron cryo microscopy; libraries; NumPy; pipelines; Python; scripting; SWIG

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DOCUMENTATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DATABASE;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS;

EID: 85032919033     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.3299     Document Type: Article

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