I assume this is the denouement of the Ajees et al debacle a while back?
Does this mean all authors on all of those papers were complicit? Otherwise,
how would one author alone perpetrate this kind of thing? He pretends to go
to the synchrotron, comes back with the hkl file, and goes from there? What
about the crystals? Grows some lysozyme crystals, labels as protein x,
proceeds to go "to the synchrotron" and then...? This whole thing is really
hard to imagine--is there an "initiation" procedure in that lab, when the
"noble lie" is revealed to all would-be authors?
Jacob Keller
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ibrahim Moustafa" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 8:16 AM
Subject: [ccp4bb] FW: pdb-l: Retraction of 12 Structures
Hi all,
I want to share the following e-mail received from pdb-l.
It is sad to see something like that!
regards,
Ibrahim
------ Forwarded Message
From: Michael Sadowski <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:22:28 -0800 (PST)
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: pdb-l: Retraction of 12 Structures
Dear All,
Better check your data!
Apologies to those who have seen this.
S.
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"The University of Alabama at Birmingham has issued a statement indicating
that a former UAB researcher may have fabricated or falsified data about
protein structures that are contained in the Protein Data Bank.
The university did not include a name of the researcher, but the
Birmingham
News this week reported that the scientist is H.M. Krishna Murthy and an
independent review by BioInform of the PDB shows that Murthy is associated
with all of the proteins that UAB said were falsified.
The newspaper said that a probe of Murthy's research has been underway
since
2007.
"After a thorough examination of the available data, which included a
re-analysis of each structure alleged to have been fabricated, the
committee
found a preponderance of evidence that structures 1BEF, 1CMW, 1DF9/2QID,
1G40, 1G44, 1L6L, 2OU1, 1RID, 1Y8E, 2A01, and 2HR0 were more likely than
not
falsified and/or fabricated and recommended that they be removed from the
public record," the university said in its statement this week."
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http://www.genomeweb.com/informatics/university-alabama-says-researcher-fabr
icated-protein-structures-now-protein-dat?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=f
eed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+genomeweb%2Fbioinform+%28BioInform%29
http://main.uab.edu/Sites/reporter/articles/71570/
http://blog.al.com/birmingham-news-stories/2009/12/ex-uab_researchers_work_m
ay_be.html
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