Abstract

Crystallography at subatomic resolution permits the observation and measurement of the non-spherical character of the atomic electron density. Charge density studies are being performed on molecules of increasing size. The MOPRO least-squares refinement software has thus been developed, by extensive modifications of the program MOLLY , for protein and supramolecular chemistry applications. The computation times are long because of the large number of reflections and the complexity of the multipolar model of the atomic electron density; the structure factor and derivative calculations have thus been parallelized. Stereochemical and dynamical restraints as well as the conjugate gradient algorithm have been implemented. A large number of the normal matrix off-diagonal terms turn out to be very small and the block diagonal approximation is thus particularly efficient in the case of large structures at very high resolution.

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Subatomic particleDiagonalResolution (logic)ComputationBlock (permutation group theory)Electron densityConjugate gradient methodSupramolecular chemistryPhysicsMatrix (chemical analysis)ChemistryComputational chemistryCrystallographyElectronMoleculeComputer scienceQuantum mechanicsAlgorithmMathematicsGeometryElementary particle

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Year
2001
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Volume
34
Issue
2
Pages
214-223
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158
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Benoı̂t Guillot, Laurence Viry, Régis Guillot et al. (2001). Refinement of proteins at subatomic resolution with<i>MOPRO</i>. Journal of Applied Crystallography , 34 (2) , 214-223. https://doi.org/10.1107/s0021889801001753

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10.1107/s0021889801001753