Modern Techniques for Circular Dichroism and Synchrotron Radiation Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy and its application to structural biology. In particular, the newer methods of synchrotron radiation circular dichroism (SRCD) and linear dichroism (LD) are fully covered. Use of SRCD allows data between 190 and 160nm to be measured, where additional information content is obtained, plus the ability to characterize biomolecules in diverse environments. The method has value in protein fold recognition and potential for use in structural genomics. In addition to their wide research experience, the editors have extensive experience of running and teaching internationally at workshops on CD. Based on this experience, practical aspects, such as instrumentation, calibration, sample preparation and analyses are covered comprehensively in this book, which has been undertaken partly as a result of demand by those who participated in the workshops, or by those who did not participate themselves, but heard excellent reports of the workshops. This book will be of value to research workers in the general area of biophysics, to graduate students and to others entering research.