Important Definitions

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List of Defined Words:

-A-

Accession Number

Airlie agreement

ALS - Advanced Light Source

ASAP - Automated Structural Analysis of Proteins system

-B-

BIC - Bioinformatics Core

-C-

CC - Crystallomics Core

Caenorhabditis elegans

Cysteine

-D-

-E-

End Sequence

-F-

-G-

Gene ID

GNF - Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation

Gravy

-H-

-I-

Information management

Isoelectric Point

-J-

JCSG -Joint Center for Structural Genomics

-K-

-L-

LBNL - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

-M-

Methionine

Microcrystallization system

Molecular Weight

-N-

NIH - National Institutes of Health

Non-Transmembrane

-O-

-P-

PDB - Protein Data Bank

Photon Factory

Pichia system

Post-structural analysis

Protein sequences

-Q-

-R-

Residue

-S-

Salk Institute

SDC - Structure Determination Core

SDSC - San Diego Supercomputer Center

Sequence ID

SLAC - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

SSRL - Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory

Start Sequence

Steering Committee

Structural Genomics

Structure validation

-T-

Target selection

Thermotoga maritima

TSRI - The Scripps Research Institute

Transmembrane

-U-

UCSD - University of California at San Diego

-V-

-W-

-X-

XML - eXtensible Markup Language

-Y-

-Z-