I agree with Frank - it keeps crystallographers modest to know how challenging wet lab stuff still is.. Eleanor
On 12 February 2014 19:23, Robbie Joosten <robbie_joos...@hotmail.com> wrote: > It's not an e-mail bulletin board, but Researchgate seems to be quite > popular for wet lab questions. IMO the Q&A section of the social network is > a bit messy. That said, the quality seems to improve gradually. > > Cheers, > Robbie > > Sent from my Windows Phone > ________________________________ > Van: Paul Emsley > Verzonden: 12-2-2014 19:23 > Aan: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Onderwerp: Re: [ccp4bb] Sister CCPs > > > On 12/02/14 15:59, George Sheldrick wrote: >> It would be so nice to have a 'sister CCP' for questions aboud wet-lab >> problems that have nothing to do with CCP4 or crystallographic >> computing, The is clearly a big need for it, and those of us who try >> to keep out of wet-labs would not have to wade though it all. > > > FWIW, the remit of CCP4BB, held at jiscmail-central, is describes as: > > /The CCP4BB mailing list is for discussions on the use of the CCP4 > suite, and macromolecular crystallography in general./ > > > > Thus wet-lab questions are not off-topic (not that anyone recently > described them as such). > > Having said that, Jiscmail mailing lists are easy to set-up (providing > that you can reasonably expect that the mailing list will improve > knowledge sharing within the UK centered academic community) and > relatively low maintenance. I, for one, would not be entirely unhappy to > miss out on questions about lysis. > > Paul.
