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Synchrotrons have long been the preferred X-ray sources for crystallography, but competition has arrived with the advent of X-ray free-electron lasers. A synchrotron expert and an advocate of free-electron lasers discuss the prospects of the respective source types for applications in structural biology.

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Figure 1: Protein structures from micrometre-sized crystals.

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  1. Sean McSweeney is in the Department of Photon Sciences, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA.,

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  2. Petra Fromme is in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, USA.,

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