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I think a good crystallographer is still a very valuable asset of
any biology
laboratory.
and Iif we had more of these
the hundreds of students and even postdocs
daily banging their heads with apparently magical sets of
reflection data
would be drastically less.
The reason why
a funding body
should deny money to a project only because it has an applicative
character
can be that this funding body is committed to fund basic research
related to health and not applied projects.
While X-ray structure determination
is straightforward, just like climbing Mt. Everest is straightforward,
except for those projects that involve methods development or deal
with very difficult problems,
we have to accept that crystallography is now a tool for general
biochemical research.
Since, however,
we divide the world into two groups: Crystallographers and Idiots,
I will go and divide all my Intensities to 'Strong' and 'Weak' and
see if that generalization will help me to solve my structures.
regards - an Idiot
(since I have a diploma in biology, a phd in chemistry and a liking
of computers, I guess I do qualify!)
PS As you can see I must be an idiot, I cannot even write my own
text, i use cut and paste, the same way I fill-up the
crystallographic data tables for my structures and I write my grants ;-)
