Very good book that describes protein crystallography, starting from crystallisation, covering almost all techniques available by 1976. This book is highly recommended if you can find it. |
The latest and most recommended book on crystallography for the biologist and/or practical crystallographer. It has a good description of the mathematical and physical basis of macromolecular crystallography. |
This book is meant to be a very readable introduction to crystallography. For biologists (or readers from any field) using X-ray crystallography as a method, perhaps this book should be one of the first you read. |
This book has math just enough to understnd crystallography. If you are considered to do serious X-ray crystallpgraphy then this book would serve as very useful starting point. |
A comprehensive exposition of diffraction theory. It has very good mathematical description of diffraction geometry, intensity of reflections, atomic scattering factors, anomalous scattering etc. The book may be a bit heavy on maths, but if you can read it through then you may know everything about X-ray crystallography and more. |
This book is a bit heavy on the maths side. It has a very nice account of symmetry and space groups, and gives a mathematical reason why there are a limited number of point groups (32) and spaces groups (230). This book should be used as a reference. |
This book describes statistical distributions of structure factor amplitudes. It also gives derivations of many distributions used in modern macromolecular crystallography (e.g. Rice distribution, although they do not call it the Rice distribution; Wilson distribution; joint distributions of related crystals). A bit heavy on the maths side. |