BMC Bioinformatics

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Calculation of accurate small angle X-ray scattering curves from coarse-grained protein models

Kasper Stovgaard1, Christian Andreetta1, Jesper Ferkinghoff-Borg2 and Thomas Hamelryck1*

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1 The Bioinformatics Centre, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

2 Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

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BMC Bioinformatics 2010, 11:429 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-429

Published: 18 August 2010

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Additional file 1:

Data set of selected protein structures from the Top500 data set [34] used in the form factor estimation. Each column contains PDB identifier, primary sequence length and radius of gyration calculated from the atomic structure.

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Additional file 2:

Scattering form factor centroids for the one-body model. Form factor centroids for each amino acid in the q-range [0, 0.750] Å-1.

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Additional file 3:

Scattering form factors for the two-body model. Form factor centroids for the generic backbone component and each amino acid in the q-range [0, 0.750] Å-1. An asterisk is used to mark the residues where the form factor includes both the backbone and side chain scatterers.

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