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This year, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to
Jacques Dubochet,
Joachim Frank, and
Richard Henderson
"for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution".
We are pleased to celebrate this great triumph for structural biology along with the well-deserved recognition of the Center's long-time collaborator and friend, Joachim Frank.
Our center has a long tradition in developing computational methods that enable scientists to build atomistic models of biomolecules.
Molecular Dynamics Flexible Fitting (MDFF),
a method developed in close collaboration with Joachim Frank and his group,
reconciles high resolution data from X-ray crystallography and functional information from cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM).
MDFF utilizes molecular dynamics to "naturally" fit each atom into a cryo-EM map.
In less than a decade since its development, MDFF has proved instrumental in studying biomolecular systems.
A selected list of publications employing MDFF both by our group and others can be found
here.