Molecular Structure Laboratory

Useful Links

Dr. Sabat’s Personal Web Page.

X-Ray Crystallography

Introduction to X-ray crystallography prepared by the Commission on Crystallographic Teaching, International Union of Crystallography:

http://www.iucr.org/iucr-top/comm/cteach/pamphlets.html

Introduction to X-ray diffraction:

http://www-wilson.ucsd.edu/education/pchem/xraydiff

Another tutorial on X-ray diffraction:

http://www.pa.msu.edu/~proffen/teaching/teaching.html

An interesting presentation of Fourier transforms in X-ray Crystallography:

http://www.yorvic.york.ac.uk/~cowtan/fourier/fourier.html

Crystallization Techniques

Tips from the Hampton Research Company specializing in crystallization:

http://www.hamptonresearch.com

Excellent introduction to crystallization techniques by Dr. Paul Boyle, North Carolina State University:

http://laue.chem.ncsu.edu/web/GrowXtal.html

Crystallization of biological macromolecules:

http://www.bioc.rice.edu/~berry/papers/crystallization/crystallization.html

Structural Databases

Protein Data Bank.

http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/

Nucleic Acid Data Base.

http://ndbserver.rutgers.edu/

Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center.

http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk