Useful Websites


Crystallography tutorials

Isomorphous Replacement   (a splendid site maintained by Ian Tickle and Huub Driessen)
http://sanda.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/xtal/mir/index.htm

MAD Phasing   (Merritt's site BSC, Washington U. School of Medicine)
http://www.bmsc.washington.edu/scatter/

Difference Patterson Tutorial   (Charles Brenner, Thomas Jefferson University)
http://asterix.jci.tju.edu/brenner/pr613.html

Courses in Crystallography   (at Birkbeck College)
http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/teaching.html

Space groups (crystallographic space-group symmetry tables)
http://citron.caltech.edu/~art/info/spacegroup.html#3

Bragg's Law of Diffraction (change the wavelength, or distance, and see what happens)
http://www.journey.sunysb.edu/ProjectJava/Bragg/home.html

Crystallography 101 (excellent website maintained at LLNL)
http://www-structure.llnl.gov/Xray/101index.html


Crystallography Resources

Richard's Favourite Crystallographic WWW Sites--database links (Stroud's site at UCSF)
http://util.ucsf.edu/stroud/morse/xstal_db.html

Sincris Information Server for Crystallography (biology, chemistry, minerology, physics, diffraction theory, software, laboratories, etc)
http://iucr.sdsc.edu/sincris-top/index.html

Protein Crystallization Database (has some bugs, but useful)
http://ibm4.carb.nist.gov:4400

Protein Databank (PDB)
http://pdb.pdb.bnl.gov

The Scripps Research Institute Metalloprotein Database and Browser
http://fe.scripps.edu/mdb


Vendors

Area Detector Systems Corporation
http://www.adsc-xray.com

Bruker Analytical X-ray Systems
http://www.bruker-axs.com

Charles Supper Company (instruments and accessories for x-ray diffraction)
http://www.charles-supper.com

Enraf-Nonius
http://www.enraf-nonius.delftny.com

Hampton Research (crystallization research tools)
http://www.hamptonresearch.com

Mar-Research
http://www.marresearch.com

Molecular Structure Corporation
http://www.msc.com

Oxford Crysystems (crystream cooler)
http://www.OxfordCryosystems.co.uk

Polycrystal Book Service (excellent source of crystallography books, some out of print)
http://www.dnaco.net/~polybook/

Rigaku
http://www.rigaku.com




Crystallography for Chemists