What can we Learn from Anisotropic Temperature Factors

anisotropic temperature factors provide an interesting new piece of information: the direction dependence of the atomic mean square displacements. Some basic concepts to access this information and their application to models of protein molecules in the crystalline state will be described in this article. More comprehensive introductions can be found in the articles by Dunitz et al. [3, 4] and Trueblood [5] and in the book by Willis & Pryor [6].

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