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SUBMITTER: Wang J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5338243 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society 20160613 9
It is common knowledge that macromolecular crystals are damaged by the X-rays they are exposed to during conventional data collection. One of the claims made about the crystallographic data collection now being collected using X-ray free-electron lasers (XFEL) is that they are unaffected by radiation damage. XFEL data sets are assembled by merging data obtained from a very large number of crystals, each of which is exposed to a single femtosecond pulse of radiation, the duration of which is so s ...[more]