Written by D. Svergun1, C. Barberato, M. Malfois, V. Volkov2, P. Konarev1 & M. Petoukhov1 1European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hamburg Outstation
EMBL c/o DESY
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Germany
2Institute of Crystallography
Russian Academy of Sciences
Leninsky pr. 59
119333 Moscow
Russia
CRYSOL is a program for evaluating the solution scattering from
macromolecules with known atomic structure and fitting it to experimental
scattering curves from small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). As an input one
can use a PDB file with an X-ray or NMR structure of a protein or a protein-DNA(RNA)
complex.
If you use CRYSOL 2.x in your work, please cite:
Svergun D.I., Barberato C. and Koch M.H.J. (1995) CRYSOL - a Program to Evaluate X-ray Solution Scattering of Biological Macromolecules from Atomic Coordinates. J. Appl. Cryst. 28, 768-773. DOI
CRYSOL 3.0 evaluates the hydration shell and its scattering in a different way: instead of using an envelope function, CRYSOL 3.0 "incrusts" the surfaces and interiors (were possible) of atomic structure with the dummy water beads. This way of the shell representation is more suitable for macromolecules with complex non-globular shapes and/or with cavities.
If you use CRYSOL 3.0 in your work, please cite:
Franke, D., Petoukhov, M.V., Konarev, P.V., Panjkovich, A., Tuukkanen, A., Mertens, H.D.T., Kikhney, A.G., Hajizadeh, N.R., Franklin, J.M., Jeffries, C.M. and Svergun, D.I. (2017) ATSAS 2.8: a comprehensive data analysis suite for small-angle scattering from macromolecular solutions. J. Appl. Cryst. 50(4), 1212-1225. DOI