On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:30:53 -0500, Ibrahim Moustafa <[email protected]> wrote:
>You are absolutely right, more information describing to what extents these >structures were falsified will be valuable to the community. Actually, it >will be more useful if the investigators can publish their report as an >article in Acta D (as a case study for tracking falsified structures). Early this morning I put together a post that attempts to describe how one structure (1BEF) was falsified. I do not have any direct proof. I would be interested if others think the hypothesis is reasonable or better yet have a better idea. http://bit.ly/4vjLbE Thanks. Sean > I have a suggestion (actually a request) to the expertise in the field to >write a kind of review article about "sources of error in crystallography >and how to hunt these errors". It will be even better if it is written >considering the non-crystallographers (scientists who use the structural >information - like the co-authors on structural papers). This will help to >educate the non-crystallographers how to look at the structures critically. > > Ibrahim
