The MORPHEUS protein crystallization screen

MORPHEUS is an initial protein crystallization screen with a unique organization which integrates components and ligands selected after analysing all crystal structure data deposited with the Protein Data Bank and local data gathered at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England (MRC-LMB). Three challenging proteins from the MRC-LMB have already been crystallized exclusively using MORPHEUS.

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