Fundamentals of neutron crystallography in structural biology.

This chapter introduces this topic for the whole volume. It is not a review, rather it presents the basics, the key considerations and forward references to the other chapters. This starts by setting the scene of principles and overall strategy, moves onto planning an experiment including its feasibility and then outlines practicalities with options for the experiment. The crystal structure that results will lead to publication and associated with it, Protein Data Bank deposition.