Educational Tools for X-Ray Crystallography

The experience of learning a discipline as complex as X-ray crystallography can be significantly enhanced by the use of appropriate didactical tools. Many researchers around the globe have dedicated time and resources to the development of text or VRML oriented courses of both general and macromolecular crystallography. In this page we list several sites that we have found and enjoyed. We apologize for the inevitable omissions in our list and we welcome suggestions for new additions.

	http://www.us.iucr.org/comm/cteach/pamphlets.html These are the official IUCr teaching pamphlets: technical, not for beginners.
	http://www.journey.sunysb.edu/ProjectJava/Bragg/home.html An elegant Java applet on Bragg's law.
	http://ylp.icpet.nrc.ca/SGHT/ On line International Tables of Crystallography
	http://www-structure.llnl.gov/Xray/101index.html Bernard Rupp's course in macromolecular crystallography.
	http://perch.cimr.cam.ac.uk/course.html The amazing course of the University of Cambridge on everything related to crystallography
	http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/ccp/web-mirrors/llnlrupp/crystal_lab/cystalmake.html Bernard Rupp's "How to Grow Protein Crystals" containing links to his lectures and programs
	http://www.mpibp-frankfurt.mpg.de/~johan.zeelen//xtal.html Johan Zeelen's X-tal Protocols
	http://bmbsgi13.leeds.ac.uk/wwwprg/stura/cryst.html Enrico Stura's Crystallization Techniques
	http://www-bioc.rice.edu/~berry/papers/crystallization/crystallization.html Michael Berry's Protein Crystallization: Theory and Practice
	http://xray.bmc.uu.se/~terese/ Terese Bergfors' Protein Crystallization - Manuals, incredibly useful links, everything you want for crystallization
	http://www.hamptonresearch.com/techcenter/techcenter.html Hampton's Technical Bulletins
	http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/grz/pub/surfexp/SXinput.html A surface explorer for all space groups useful for visualing packing along various axes.
	http://www.us.iucr.org/cww-top/int.index.html Crystallographers guide to internet tools and resources: technical, a "must" for programmers.
	http://www.ornl.gov/ortep/topology.html Advanced topics in crystallographic topology
	http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/crystal/teaching/teaching.html An excellent general course on diffraction.
	http://www.yorvic.york.ac.uk/~cowtan/fourier/fourier.html Kevin Kowtan book of Fourier transform featuring the famous Fourier Duck
	http://www.bmsc.washington.edu:80/scatter/ An excellent tutorial on anomalous scattering and MAD phasing
	http://xray.uu.se/ The Upsala X-ray server.
	http://www.bioc.rice.edu/XRayView/ The virtual X-ray laboratory of the Keck Center for Computational Biology. Very useful to see how diffraction spots arise.
	http://www.nirim.go.jp/~weber/ Steffen Weber personal site with a lot of fun (and interesting) software to download ... and your chance to help children around the world.
	http://www.expasy.ch/swissmod/course/course-index.htm Very good tutorial on the principles of protein structure, comparative protein modelling and visualisation.
	http://pps.life.nthu.edu.tw/index.html "The Principles of Protein Structure '97": this is the renown course hosted by the The Department of Crystallography of Birkbeck College
	http://www.usm.maine.edu/~rhodes/CMCC/index.html "Crystallography Made Crystal Clear", the guide for users of macromolecular models written by Gale Rhodes

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