macroseeding

English

Etymology

macro- +‎ seeding

Noun

macroseeding (uncountable)

1. (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^[1], volume 279, number 5356, →DOI, pages 1534–1541:

     Repeated cycles of macroseeding were required to obtain crystals of sufficient size for data collection […] .

Coordinate terms

• microseeding
• streak seeding