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1 Introduction to Protein Crystallization |
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1.1.1 The Protein Molecule |
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1.3 The Second Virial Coefficient |
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1.3.1 Second Virial Coefficient Thought Experiments |
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1.3.2 But the Protein Still Does Not Crystallize! |
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1.4 Practical Considerations When Crystallizing Proteins |
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1.4.1 Other Factors Affecting Protein Crystallization |
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1.4.2 The Importance of the Protein |
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1.5 The Protein Crystallization Screening Process |
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1.5.2 Experimental Design in Introducing the Protein to Precipitant |
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1.5.3 Screening Data Analysis |
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1.6 Introducing the Protein to the Precipitant---How to Do It? |
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1.6.2 Liquid-Liquid Diffusion |
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1.7 Following the Crystallization Experiment |
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1.7.1 Methods for Viewing the Crystallization Screening Results |
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1.8 Results Interpretation |
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1.9 Crystallization of Complexes |
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1.10 Crystallization of Integral Membrane Proteins |
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2 Scoring and Phases of Crystallization |
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2.2 Why Score Crystallization Drop Results? |
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2.4 Our Scoring Procedure |
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2.4.1 What You See Is Not Always Simply Classified |
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2.4.2 Hierarchical Categories |
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2.5 Even if You Are Not Going to Process Your Scored Data |
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3 Computational Methods for Protein Crystallization Screening |
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3.2 Overview of Experimental Design Methods for Screening |
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3.3 Using Neural Networks for Experimental Design |
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3.4 Genetic Algorithm for Protein Crystallization Screening |
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3.5 Associative Experimental Design |
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3.6 Optimization of Cocktails |
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3.6.1 Elimination of Prohibited Combinations |
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3.6.2 Prioritization of Reagents |
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3.6.3 Ranking of Prioritized Conditions |
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3.6.4 Optimizing Concentration Values |
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3.7 Experiments and Evaluation |
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3.7.1 Proteins for Preliminary Experiments |
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3.7.2 Results for Preliminary Data |
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3.7.3 Expanded Screen Analysis |
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3.7.4 Evaluation of Ranked Results |
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4 Robotic Image Acquisition |
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4.2 Components of a Robotic Setup |
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4.2.2 Fluorescence Microscopy |
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4.4 Image Processing and Segmentation |
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4.4.1 Image Preprocessing |
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4.6 Accuracy and Timing Analysis |
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4.6.1 Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network (MLP) |
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4.6.2 Max-Class Ensemble Method |
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5 Classification of Crystallization Trial Images |
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5.1.1 Challenges of Protein Crystallization Classification |
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5.1.2 Factors for Classification |
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5.1.3 Feature Analysis for Building Real-Time Classifiers |
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5.2.1 Feature Normalization |
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5.2.2 Dimensionality Reduction and Feature Selection |
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5.4.6 Shape-Adaptive Features |
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5.5 Analysis of Feature Sets |
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5.5.2 Evaluating Features for Hierarchical Classification |
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5.5.3 First-Level (3-Class) Classification |
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5.5.4 Second-Level Classification |
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5.6 Timing Analysis for Classification |
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5.7 Deep Learning for Protein Crystallization Images |
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6 Crystal Growth Analysis |
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6.2 Is it a Protein---Rule of Thumb |
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6.2.1 Protein---Get it While it is Fresh |
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6.3 Temporal Analysis of Time Series Images |
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6.3.1 Stages of Temporal Analysis |
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6.3.2 Sample Dataset and Experimental Setup |
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6.4 Identifying Trials for Spatiotemporal Analysis |
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6.4.2 Canny Edge Detection |
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6.4.3 Merging Results of Thresholding and Canny Edge Detection |
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6.5 Spatiotemporal Analysis of Protein Crystal Growth |
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6.5.1 Identifying Crystallographically Important Regions |
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6.5.2 Image Registration and Alignment |
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6.5.3 Spatiotemporal Features |
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6.6 Determining Crystal Growth |
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6.7 Detection of New Crystals |
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6.8 Detection of Crystal Size Increase |
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6.9.1 Trace Fluorescent Labeling |
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6.9.2 Spatiotemporal Analysis |
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7 Focal Stacking for Crystallization Microscopy |
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7.2 Typical Viewing Area ~ 2 mm in Diameter |
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7.2.1 Objective Characteristics |
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7.2.3 Drop Depth and Your Crystal Probably Isn't Where You Are Looking |
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7.3 Take Multiple Images to See Through the Drop |
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7.4.1 Active Auto-Focusing |
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7.4.2 Passive Auto-Focusing |
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7.5.1 Pixel-Based Focal Stacking (PBFS) |
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7.5.2 Neighborhood-Based Focal Stacking (NBFS) |
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7.5.3 Transformation-Based Focal Stacking |
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7.6 Focal Stacking for Trace Fluorescently Labeling Microscopy |
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7.6.1 Modification of Harris Corner Response Measure (HCRM) |
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7.6.2 Calculating Representative HCRM Value |
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7.6.3 Generating Focused Image |
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7.7 Handling High-Resolution Images |
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7.8 Handling Varying Illumination |
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7.9 Evaluation of Focal Stacking Methods |
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7.9.1 Low-Resolution Image |
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7.9.2 High-Resolution Image |
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7.9.3 Varying Illumination Images |
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7.9.4 Comparison of Different Methods |
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8 Crystal Image Region Segmentation |
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8.2 Image Binarization Methods and Limitations |
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8.3 Supervised Thresholding |
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8.3.1 Building the Training Set |
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8.3.2 Correctness Measurement |
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8.4 Framework of Super-Thresholding |
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8.7 Evaluation of Super-Thresholding |
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9.4 Scoring Crystallization Trials |
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9.5 Multiple Crystallization Trial Analysis |
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9.5.1 Time Course Analysis |
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9.5.2 Support for Sequential View |
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9.5.3 Multiple Light Source Support |
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9.6 Chemical Space Mapping |
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10 Other Structure Determination Methods |
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10.2 Neutron Diffraction (ND) |
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10.3 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) |
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10.4 Cryogenic Electron Microscopy (Cryo-EM) |
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10.5 X-Ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) |
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10.6.1 Chemical Cross linking |
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10.6.2 Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer |
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10.6.3 Circular Dichroism (CD) |
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11 Future of Computational Protein Crystallization |
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11.2 Challenges and Future Directions |
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