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Biological Crystallography Online is a service for subscribers to Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography allowing access to navigable HTML and PDF versions of the full contents of issues of the journal. Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography welcomes the submission of papers covering any aspect of structural biology, with a particular emphasis on the structures of biological macromolecules and the methods used to determine them. Reports on new protein structures are particularly encouraged, as are structure-function papers that could include crystallographic binding studies, or structural analysis of mutants or other modified forms of a known protein structure. The key criterion is that such papers should present new insights into biology, chemistry or structure. Papers on crystallographic methods should be oriented towards biological crystallography, and may include new approaches to any aspect of structure determination or analysis. Papers on the crystallization of biological molecules will be accepted only if these focus on new methods or other features that are of general importance or applicability. Those that report routine crystallization results will not be accepted and should be submitted instead to Acta Crystallographica Section F. For all structural papers, sufficient information should be provided to convince the referees that the interpretations of the diffraction data and electron-density maps are correct, within the resolution of the analysis.
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`Acta is intended to offer a central place for publication and discussion of all research in this vast and ever-expanding field. It borders, naturally, on pure physics, chemistry, biology, mineralogy, technology and also on mathematics, but is distinguished by being concerned with the methods and results of investigating the arrangement of atoms in matter, particularly when that arrangement has regular features.' Paul P. Ewald, Acta Crystallographica (1948), 1, 2. |