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All models, computed scattering curves and reconstructions presented in this manuscript are available in Supplementary Data 1.
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The program DENSS is available open source at https://github.com/tdgrant1/denss. EMAN2 software is available at https://hpc.nih.gov/apps/EMAN2.html. The programs DAMMIN, MONSA, CRYSOL and SUPALM are included in the ATSAS software, which is freely available to academic users at https://www.embl-hamburg.de/biosaxs/software.html.
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P.V.K. acknowledges support from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation within the State assignment FSRC ‘Crystallography and Photonics’ of the Russian Academy of Sciences. D.I.S. acknowledges support from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant SAS-BSOFT (16QK10A)).
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Konarev, P.V., Svergun, D.I. Limitations of the iterative electron density reconstruction algorithm from solution scattering data. Nat Methods 18, 244–245 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01082-x
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