Flexibility of protein and DNA residues revealed by crystallographic B factors

What is it about?

Crystallographic data reveal local flexibility of biomolecules.

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Why is it important?

This is the first across-the-database analysis of crystallographic B-factors and show their usefulness for analysis of biomolecular dynamics but also limits of the data for lower resolution structures, for which B-factors show strange features reflecting failures of refinement protocols.