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Article: Automation Lends Crystallographers a Hand.(protein crystallography)
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- Genomics and Proteomics
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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By Alisa Woods, PhD
Research is accelerating many steps in the protein crystallography process, but bottlenecks can still be a challenge. Robots that can handle crystals and improved tools for diffraction data should help speed output.
Defining the three-dimensional structure of proteins through X-ray crystallography can lead to better understanding of basic biology and greatly aid drug development. Unfortunately, technical challenges and time constraints limited this technique in the past. That's why scientists across academia, government, and industry are collectively conducting a high-throughput upgrade. Spurred by prior discoveries and the promise ...