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Together at last: crystallography and NMR

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In a collaborative high-throughput effort to determine the three-dimensional structures of small proteins, two studies demonstrate that X-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy are complementary techniques.

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Doerr, A. Together at last: crystallography and NMR. Nat Methods 3, 6 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0106-6

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