Dear Crystallographers, I am sending this to try to start a thread which addresses only the specific issue of whether to archive, at least as a start, images corresponding to PDB-deposited structures. I believe there could be a real consensus about the low cost and usefulness of this degree of archiving, but the discussion keeps swinging around to all levels of archiving, obfuscating who's for what and for what reason. What about this level, alone? All of the accompanying info is already entered into the PDB, so there would be no additional costs on that score. There could just be a simple link, added to the "download files" pulldown, which could say "go to image archive," or something along those lines. Images would be pre-zipped, maybe even tarred, and people could just download from there. What's so bad?
The benefits are that sometimes there are structures in which resolution cutoffs might be unreasonable, or perhaps there is some potential radiation damage in the later frames that might be deleterious to interpretations, or perhaps there are ugly features in the images which are invisible or obscure in the statistics. In any case, it seems to me that this step would be pretty painless, as it is merely an extension of the current system--just add a link to the pulldown menu! Best Regards, Jacob Keller -- ******************************************* Jacob Pearson Keller Northwestern University Medical Scientist Training Program email: [email protected] *******************************************
