Am 20:59, schrieb Van Den Berg, Bert:
I have heard this before. I’m wondering though, does anybody know of a
systematic study where different data processing programs are compared
with real-life, non-lysozyme data?
Bert
Bert,
some time ago I tried to start something to this effect - take a look at
the "Quality Control" article in XDSwiki.
(<http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/xdswiki/index.php/Quality_Control>).
But it hasn't worked out, i.e. nobody participated (so far).
Possible reasons include:
a) it is considered politically incorrect (many years ago I wrote about
a comparison that I did ... the reactions from a few people were rather
harsh)
b) for reasons un-intelligible to me, people do not like to make their
raw data public (even if I ask directly)
c) it does take time to do and document
d) it's difficult to agree on the right methodology
e) it's a question that seems to interest only specialists
f) there's probably not a single answer
g) the programs are being constantly improved
Concerning the last point, a wiki seems to be a good place to collect
the results (a table can be used to follow progress in a program, but
also to see the differences between programs). But that brings me to my
last point - a wiki article does not count as a paper.
best,
Kay
