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Fig. 1: Calculated or reconstructed low-resolution density of DDM micelles and protein–nucleic acid complexes.

Data availability

The experimental DDM micelle data were kindly provided by F. Gabel and are available as described in ref. 7.

Code availability

DENSS is available open source on GitHub at https://github.com/tdgrant1/denss.git, and instructions for downloading, installing and running DENSS can be found on the GitHub page and at https://www.tdgrant.com/denss/.

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The author thanks F. Gabel for providing SAXS data of the DDM micelle7. The author acknowledges support from the BioXFEL NSF Science and Technology Center (NSF 1231306) and from NIH award R01GM133998.

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Grant, T.D. Reply to: Limitations of the iterative electron density reconstruction algorithm from solution scattering data. Nat Methods 18, 246–248 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01083-w

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