Surely in this ''modern age" data could be uploaded to "review server" whereby a reviewer could be given privileged access - to be able to see the model and maps, via something like AstexViewer, to gauge the quality and reliability of modelling - without actually getting the PDB coordinates or structure factors until a manuscript is accepted for publication?
Sent from my iPhone On 11 Aug 2011, at 11:15, "Ethan Merritt" <merr...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > On Wednesday, 10 August 2011, Nian Huang wrote: >> I Agree with the idea of adding crystallographer reviewers. >> But accessing to data is not feasible unless there is a good way >> to protect authors. > > Disagree. > The data supporting a paper's claims should always be made available > to the reviewers. How else can you be assured of a valid review? > > The only exception to this I can think of would be human subjects/ > privacy issues, but that must be a rarity in crystallographic papers. > > Ethan > >> For >> example, the editor should agree to publish the paper swiftly in advance >> before the data become accessible to reviewers. >> In any case, the flaw of this structure is very clear in the table. >> >> Nian >> >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Filip Van Petegem < >> filip.vanpete...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Just another example of where it would have been good for the reviewers to >>> get access to the data during the review process... and where at least one >>> of the reviewers *should* be a protein crystallographer... >>> >>> Filip Van Petegem >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:01 PM, David Schuller <dj...@cornell.edu> wrote: >>> >>>> Time to fuel up the gossip engines for the approaching weekend: >>>> >>>> >>>> http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096921260800186X >>>> >>>> RETRACTED: Structure of the Parathyroid Hormone Receptor C Terminus Bound >>>> to the G-Protein Dimer Gβ1γ2 >>>> Structure, Volume 16, Issue >>>> 7<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=PublicationURL&_tockey=%23TOC%236269%232008%23999839992%23693753%23FLA%23&_cdi=6269&_pubType=J&view=c&_auth=y&_acct=C000022719&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=492137&md5=9dc4b8953d3fa243dc98e395b6ac590d>, >>>> 9 July 2008, Pages 1086-1094 >>>> Structure 2QNS withdrawn. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> ======================================================================= >>>> All Things Serve the Beam >>>> ======================================================================= >>>> David J. Schuller >>>> modern man in a post-modern world >>>> MacCHESS, Cornell University >>>> schul...@cornell.edu >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Filip Van Petegem, PhD >>> Assistant Professor >>> The University of British Columbia >>> Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology >>> 2350 Health Sciences Mall - Rm 2.356 >>> Vancouver, V6T 1Z3 >>> >>> phone: +1 604 827 4267 >>> email: filip.vanpete...@gmail.com >>> http://crg.ubc.ca/VanPetegem/ >>> >>
