International
Tables for
Crystallography
Volume F
Crystallography of biological macromolecules
Edited by M. G. Rossmann and E. Arnold

International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. F. ch. 4.1, pp. 81-93   | 1 | 2 |
https://doi.org/10.1107/97809553602060000660

Chapter 4.1. General methods

R. Giegéa* and A. McPhersonb

a Unité Propre de Recherche du CNRS, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, 15 rue René Descartes, F-67084 Strasbourg CEDEX, France, and bDepartment of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92717, USA
Correspondence e-mail:  R.Giege@ibmc.u-strasbg.fr

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