Handy links and resources

PROTEIN CRYSTALLOGRAPHY:
Good article for basics of PX

Protein Crystallography for Non-Crystallographers
10.1111/j.1742-4658.2007.06178.x

BEAMLINE:
MX1 paper

MX1: a bending-magnet crystallography beamline serving both chemical and macromolecular crystallography communities at the Australian Synchrotron
https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577514021717

BEAMLINE:
MX2 paper

MX2: a high-flux undulator microfocus beamline serving both the chemical and macromolecular crystallography communities at the Australian Synchrotron
https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577518003120

TOOLS:
Metal edges and X-ray absorption diagrams

X-ray Absorption Edges
http://skuld.bmsc.washington.edu/scatter/AS_periodic.html

RESOURCES:
Space groups (diagrams)

High-Resolution Space Group Diagrams and Tables

RESOURCES:
Space groups (list)

Space Group Symbols and Corresponding Space Group Numbers

CRYSTAL BASICS:
32 classes, 14 lattices, 230 space groups / crystal symmetry = 7 crystal systems

The symmetry of crystals

TOOLS:
CCP4 online - BALBES pipeline is good for molecular replacement

CCP4 Online

RESOURCES:
PyMOL wiki - make your figures look nice

PyMOL Wiki

CRYSTAL GROWTH:
The Hampton pages are helpful and hilarious

Crystal Growth 101 Literature

PHASING:
Phenix Phaser Tutorial

Tutorial: solving a structure with Phaser-MR

PHASING:
Very useful table showing best combinations of buffers/pHs and heavy atoms for derivatization

A rapid and rational approach to generating isomorphous heavy‐atom phasing derivatives

CRYSTAL BASICS:
Intro to crystals, symmetry, space groups, unit cells, etc etc, all told in a vaguely comforting German accent

Fascination of Crystals and Symmetry youtube course:

CHEMICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY:
The history of chemical crystallography

Chemical crystallography before X-ray diffraction

TOOLS:
The symmetry challenge! Test your symmetry determination skills.

Symmetry Challenge
https://symotter.org/challenge

PHASING:
EMBL-Hamburg XTutor phasing tutorials. Includes example datasets for SAD, MAD, SIRAS, UV-RIP, MR.

http://www.embl-hamburg.de/xtutor/

SYNCHROTRONS:
Demystifying the synchrotron trip: a first time user's guide

UNDERSTANDING CRYSTALLOGRAPHY:

Video resource