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The technology that enables synchrotron structural biology

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Synchrotron sources and the instrumentation of crystallography have improved together to ease macromolecular structure determination by diffraction methods.

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Figure 1: The experimental apparatus at beamline X12-C at the NSLS.
Figure 2: The Java-based tool for remote operation of a beamline.

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This work, and beamline X12-C at Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source, are supported by the United States Department of Energy Offices of Health and Environmental Research and of Basic Energy Sciences, and by the National Science Foundation.

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Sweet, R. The technology that enables synchrotron structural biology. Nat Struct Mol Biol 5 (Suppl 8), 654–656 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/1344

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