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Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr
; 62(Pt 1): 12-8, 2006 Jan.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-16369089
ABSTRACT
X-ray diffraction is an extremely important tool for structure determination of biological macromolecules, to the extent that currently around 85% of Protein Data Bank entries result from X-ray measurements. Many of these structure determinations use synchrotron radiation for data collection. This article aims to give synchrotron users an overview of the functioning of a synchrotron beamline and how the performance of various instruments combines to allow the collection of diffraction data.