On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Jacob Keller <[email protected] > wrote:
> Dear Crystallographers, > > I have not done the statistics, but I have noticed that a large portion of > the inquiries directed to the BB are twinning-related. While I recognize > that many of these issues have case-specific details, it may be that there > are references which might address these inquiries in general and therefore > would be helpful to many people here. Could we compile a list, and I will > put the ref's on the wiki? > I don't know how much detail they go into, but for good, readable overviews of basic crystallography theory and practice, the "proceedings of the CCP4 study weekend" issues of Acta D. are always a good place to start: Parsons, S. Introduction to twinning. Acta Cryst (2003) D59, 1995-2003. Dauter, Z. Twinned crystals and anomalous phasing. Acta Cryst (2003) D59, 2004-2016 Another review that also covers other crystal pathologies: Zwart, PH et al. Surprises and pitfalls arising from (pseudo)symmetry. Acta Cryst (2008) D64, 99-107. -Nat
