NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN ANALYTICAL ULTRACENTRIFUGATION AND RELATED MACROMOLECULAR MODELING TECHNIQUES

On March 25th and 26th 1996, the fourth United Kingdom Analytical Ultr acentrifuge Users' Group Meeting was held at the University of Leicest er and hosted by the National Centre for Macromolecular Hydrodynamics. The focus areas of the meeting were twofold. One comprised new develo pments in terms of instrumentation (the launch of the new XL-I analyti cal ultracentrifuge) and analysis procedures (molecular mass algorithm s and dilute solution conformation algorithms). The other comprised sp ecific applications to biological macromolecules of both biomedical an d commercial importance. From this meeting a number of articles were i nvited and the following collection of refereed papers is the result. These contributions testify to the expansion of popularity and potenti al of the analytical ultracentrifuge in modern biomolecular science.