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The ultimate protein crystallographer's companion 

Ever despaired as a practicing structural biologist turned crystallographer about texts that were either too technical, not technical enough, or did not have any relevance to how things are done in practice? Here is the solution: A text written by a an experienced academic teacher with ample of routine in the grunt work of structure determination and analysis. Many applications and examples ranging from fundamental biochemical questions to structure based drug discovery. Read the reviews below.

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The book follows the recommended curriculum established by the US National Academies Committee for Crystallography with BR as a curriculum panel member of this committee.

See the 2006 study group and USNCCr/ACA whitepaper on crystallographic education here. 

Citation

BMC Reference in EndNote format here - BibTex here

Reviews

Mitchell Guss' (Australia) Review in Crystallography Reviews
Patrick Bryant's review in the British Crystallographic Association Newsletter
Sir Thomas Blundell's review in J. Appl. Crystallogr.

Reviews on Amazon
ACA Reflexions/Rigaku Newsletter (Joe Ferrara)
Review in Acta Crystallographica D (Manfred Weiss)

Chapters and contents

A table of contents and sample pages of each Chapter.

 Figures

 

Downloadable high resolution figures by Chapter

E-density of mods and ligands

 

Annotated images of some covalent modifications and a few common ligands, from various book chapter, in zip file.

 Classroom Powerpoints

 

Samples of classroom PowerPoint presentations by Chapter

 Errata and updates

 

Various corrections and a few updated figures (availabe from the page for download)

Web resources

Supplemental material, sample data, new developments, and links to other resources and web sites are available online.

For now

You can still use the web tutorial while it is upgraded for free!