Crystallography made crystal clear : a guide for users of macromolecular models / Gale Rhodes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Model and Molecule -- An Overview of Protein Crystallography -- Obtaining an image of a microscopic object -- Obtaining images of molecules -- A thumbnail sketch of protein crystallography -- Crystals -- The nature of crystals -- Growing crystals -- Collecting X-ray data -- Diffraction -- Simple objects -- Arrays of simple objects: Real and reciprocal lattices -- Intensities of reflections -- Arrays of complex objects -- Three-dimensional arrays -- Coordinate systems in crystallography -- The mathematics of crystallography: A brief description -- Wave equations: Periodic functions -- Complicated periodic functions: Fourier series -- Structure factors: Wave descriptions of X-ray reflections -- Electron-density maps -- Electron density from structure factors -- Electron density from measured reflections -- Obtaining a model -- Protein Crystals -- Properties of protein crystals -- Size, structural integrity, and mosaicity -- Multiple crystalline forms -- Water content -- Evidence that solution and crystal structures are similar -- Proteins retain their function in the crystal -- X-ray structures are compatible with other structural evidence -- Other evidence -- Growing protein crystals -- Growing crystals: Basic procedure -- Growing derivative crystals -- Finding optimal conditions for crystal growth -- Judging crystal quality -- Mounting crystals for data collection -- Collecting Diffraction Data -- Geometric principles of diffraction -- The generalized unit cell -- Indices of the atomic planes in a crystal