Data Item _exptl_crystal.pdbx_mosaicity

General

Item name
_exptl_crystal.pdbx_mosaicity
Category name
exptl_crystal
Attribute name
pdbx_mosaicity
Required in PDB entries
no
Used in current PDB entries
Yes, in about 2.8 % of entries

Item Description

The of the distribution of mis-orientation angles specified in degrees of all the unit cells in the crystal. Lower mosaicity indicates better ordered crystals.

Data Type

Data type code
float
Data type detail
float item types are the subset of numbers that are the floating numbers.
Primitive data type code
numb
Regular expression
-?(([0-9]+)[.]?|([0-9]*[.][0-9]+))([(][0-9]+[)])?([eE][+-]?[0-9]+)?
Units
degrees