New developments in analytical ultracentrifugation and related macromolecular modelling techniques

On March 25th and 26th 1996, the fourth United Kingdom Analytical Ultracentrifuge Users' Group Meeting was held at the University of Leicester and hosted by the National Centre for Macromolecular Hydrodynamics. The focus areas of the meeting were twofold. One comprised new developments in terms of instrumentation (the launch of the new XL-I analytical ultracentrifuge) and analysis procedures (molecular mass algorithms and dilute solution conformation algorithms). The other comprised specific applications to biological macromolecules of both biomedical and commercial importance. From this meeting a number of articles were invited and the following collection of refereed papers is the result. These contributions testify to the expansion of popularity and potential of the analytical ultracentrifuge in modern biomolecular science.