A Medipix quantum area detector allows rotation electron diffraction data collection from submicrometre three-dimensional protein crystals

An ultrasensitive Medipix2 detector allowed the collection of rotation electron-diffraction data from single three-dimensional protein nanocrystals for the first time. The data could be analysed using the standard X-ray crystallography programs MOSFLM and SCALA.

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