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Guide to Understanding PDB Data: 3D ED/MicroED

08/03 

The constantly-growing PDB is a reflection of the research that is happening in laboratories across the world. This can make it both exciting and challenging to use the database in research and education.

PDB-101's Guide to Understanding PDB Data was created to help users navigate through the contents of the archive without having a detailed background in structural biology.

Topics cover biological assemblies, molecular graphics programs, R-value and R-free, and more.

A section on Microcrystal Electron Diffraction has been added to the chapter on Methods for Determining Structure.

<I>PDB entry pdb_00006cpv: MicroED structure of NaK ion channel reveals a process of Na+ partition into the selectivity filter</I>PDB entry pdb_00006cpv: MicroED structure of NaK ion channel reveals a process of Na+ partition into the selectivity filter

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