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On Friday 24 Mar 2006 16:01, you wrote: > Students are having these problems because they are learning a new > technique. An expert might not have these problems at all. This is > true for every activity, such as learning how to drive a car or > preparing a good Osso Buco. In fact, most of the problems reported on > the ccp4bb go away when applying the right program in the right way > or by clearing up a misconception. Indeed, the presence of something like the ccp4bb to me is sufficient to prove that Crystallography is far from being an established technique. And this is true for both large and small molecules. Furthermore, the results achieved in the development of crystallographic methods during the last 10-20 years, tell us that the many funded projects by individual crystallographers have provided that vast amount of data on which those methods have been built. A solution to the lack of funding to crystallographers by some granting agencies, following Richard Gillilan's advice to think beyond the box, could be to put methods development and applied crystallography projects side by side. This way an individual project could provide data for non-crystallographic subjects and, at the same time, help progress in crystallographic methods. J ------------------------------------------------------- -- Dr James Foadi PhD York Structural Biology Laboratory (YSBL) Department of Chemistry University of York Heslington York YO10 5YW UK
