Diffraction Methods in Molecular Biology: Gordon Research Conference on June 11-15, 1990

结构生物学是基础生物医学进步的基础，而衍射方法提供了最明确的结构信息。生物大分子的新晶体结构现在正以非常高的速度被常规地确定；新技术，例如基于新型探测器、同步加速器源或漫射散射的技术，继续被引入；最近，蛋白质工程的出现使得从结构中提取机制的困难步骤变得更加容易，并重新强调了分子生物学的结构和信息方面之间的联系。讨论这些结果和方法论的持续发展对该领域的进展是重要的。戈登分子生物学衍射方法会议是此类讨论的首要论坛。

Structural biology is fundamental to the advancement of basic biomedical science and diffraction methods provide the most definitive structural information. New crystal structures of biological macromolecules are now being determined routinely at a very high rate; new techniques, for example those based on novel detectors, synchrotron sources, or diffuse scattering, continue to be introduced; and the advent of protein engineering has lately facilitated the difficult step of extracting mechanism from structure and re-emphasized the connection between the structural and informational aspects of molecular biology. Discussion of these results and of continuing developments in methodology is important to the progress of the field. The Gordon Conference on Diffraction Methods in Molecular Biology is the premier forum for such discussion.