macroseeding
English
Etymology
macro- + seeding
Noun
macroseeding (uncountable)
- (biochemistry, macromolecular crystallography) The seeding of crystallization using an intact crystal that has already been grown
- 1998 March 6, Lance Stewart et al., “A Model for the Mechanism of Human Topoisomerase I”, in Science, volume 279, number 5356, DOI: , pages 1534-1541:
- Repeated cycles of macroseeding were required to obtain crystals of sufficient size for data collection […] .
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Coordinate terms
- microseeding
- streak seeding