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IUCr Journals and the International Year of Crystallography
The year 2014 has been declared by the United Nations as the International Year of Crystallography (IYCr2014) to celebrate 100 years of success following the first Nobel prize related to crystallography, awarded in 1914 to Max von Laue. The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), working with UNESCO, is proud to be the custodian of the IYCr2014 and has set up plans for major initiatives during the year. You can find out more about these activities by clicking here.
X-ray crystallographic techniques and methods have a broad range of applications across the sciences including physics, chemistry and biology. In the life sciences, the technique of X-ray crystallography has without a doubt been essential in allowing biologists to uncover the structures of proteins and to shed light on how proteins work and how our cells interact. Crystallographic methods are integral to research in areas such as drug development, nanotechnology and biotechnology, and in the development of new devices and materials.
IUCr Journals provide indepth coverage of new developments in crystallographic techniques and methods. A recent example is the advanced theoretical methods required for the use of X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) in crystallographic studies.
In celebration of IYCr2014 we are making a number of our most relevant papers from our biological, chemical and technique related journals free to download for a limited period of time.
For IYCr2014, the journals have published a number of special issues and collections of articles. For more information on special issues navigate through the special issues list in the sidebar on the right of this page.
The year also coincides with the launch of a fully open-access journal with the objective of attracting high-quality science papers of broad scientific significance from across all the scientific communities that use results obtained from diffraction methods. The journal is simply called IUCrJ. The journal has published six issues in 2014 and will publish a further six in 2015.
We strive for high quality and we encourage material scientists, biologists, chemists and physicists to report the best of their structural studies in IUCrJ. Major scientific advances require multidisciplinary research and very often these breakthrough papers report results covering a wide range of methods and technologies.
To keep up to date with these and many more activities of the International Union of Crystallography please sign-up or refresh your entry to the World Directory of Crystallographers. http://www.iucr.org/people/wdc
A selection of recent techniques and methods articles in IUCr journals that are currently free to download is given below.
XPAD X-ray hybrid pixel detector for charge density quality diffracted intensities on laboratory equipment
Wenger, E., Dahaoui, S., Alle, P., Parois, P., Palin, C., Lecomte, C. & Schaniel, D. (2014). Acta Cryst. B70, 783–791.
A highly hydrated α-cyclodextrin/1-undecanol inclusion complex: crystal structure and hydrogen-bond network from high-resolution neutron diffraction at 20 K
Gallois-Montbrun, D., Le Bas, G., Mason, S. A., Prangé, T. & Lesieur, S. (2013). Acta Cryst. B69, 214–227.
Deformable elastic network refinement for low-resolution macromolecular crystallography
Schröder, G. F., Levitt, M. & Brunger, A. T. (2014). Acta Cryst. D70, 2241–2255.
Anchoring protein crystals to mounting loops with hydrogel using inkjet technology
Shinoda, A., Tanaka, Y., Yao, M. & Tanaka, I. (2014). Acta Cryst. D70, 2794–2799.
Automation in biological crystallization
Shaw Stewart, P. & Mueller-Dieckmann, J. (2014). Acta Cryst. F70, 686–696.
Femtosecond X-ray diffraction from two-dimensional protein crystals
Frank, M., Carlson, D. B., Hunter, M. S., Williams, G. J., Messerschmidt, M., Zatsepin, N. A., Barty, A., Benner, W. H., Chu, K., Graf, A. T., Hau-Riege, S. P., Kirian, R. A., Padeste, C., Pardini, T., Pedrini, B., Segelke, B., Seibert, M. M., Spence, J. C. H., Tsai, C.-J., Lane, S. M., Li, X.-D., Schertler, G., Boutet, S., Coleman, M. & Evans, J. E. (2014). IUCrJ 1, 95–100.
Serial crystallography on in vivo grown microcrystals using synchrotron radiation
Gati, C., Bourenkov, G., Klinge, M., Rehders, D., Stellato, F., Oberthür, D., Yefanov, O., Sommer, B. P., Mogk, S., Duszenko, M., Betzel, C., Schneider, T. R., Chapman, H. N. & Redecke, L. (2014). IUCrJ 1, 87–94.
Room-temperature serial crystallography using a kinetically optimized microfluidic device for protein crystallization and on-chip X-ray diffraction
Heymann, M., Opthalage, A., Wierman, J. L., Akella, S., Szebenyi, D. M. E., Gruner, S. M. & Fraden, S. (2014). IUCrJ 1, 349–360.
The indexing ambiguity in serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) resolved using an expectation maximization algorithm
Liu, H. & Spence, J. C. H. (2014). IUCrJ 1, 393–401.
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Journal of Applied Crystallography
Journal of Applied Crystallography |
The Bio-SANS instrument at the High Flux Isotope Reactor of Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Heller, W. T., Urban, V. S., Lynn, G. W., Weiss, K. L., O'Neill, H. M., Pingali, S. V., Qian, S., Littrell, K. C., Melnichenko, Y. B., Buchanan, M. V., Selby, D. L., Wignall, G. D., Butler, P. D. & Myles, D. A. (2014). J. Appl. Cryst. 47, 1238–1246.
Cheetah: software for high-throughput reduction and analysis of serial femtosecond X-ray diffraction data
Barty, A., Kirian, R. A., Maia, F. R. N. C., Hantke, M., Yoon, C. H., White, T. A. & Chapman, H. (2014). J. Appl. Cryst. 47, 1118–1131.
MARTINI bead form factors for the analysis of time-resolved X-ray scattering of proteins
Niebling, S., Björling, A. & Westenhoff, S. (2014). J. Appl. Cryst. 47, 1190–1198.
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Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation |
The MAX IV storage ring project
Tavares, P. F., Leemann, S. C., Sjöström, M. & Andersson, Å. (2014). J. Synchrotron Rad. 21, 862–877.
