Dear Tom et al: Although arriving too late to participate in the snark-fest, it occurred to me that maybe this is almost exactly how we should solve structures and educate graduate students (or others).
Instead of attachments, the relevant files could be shared via dropbox. Those of generous spirit could help solve, refine, correct, critique or otherwise improve structures before formal peer review. (If everyone knows the source of the data, it is far less likely to be ripped off, not more.) It might cut down on the number of mistakes (or worse) that appear in the PDB and journals, new mentorships and collaborations might be established, in exceptional cases co-authorship, or more generally, an acknowledgement could be offered. For students like mine who are comparatively isolated in a small institution somewhat off the beaten path, it would be a real asset and advantage to them not to have to rely only upon my limited abilities and increasingly obsolete knowledge. We should all be able to learn from one anther without fear of reproach. All the best, Bill William G. Scott Professor Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and The Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA 228 Sinsheimer Laboratories University of California at Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, California 95064 USA On Mar 27, 2013, at 3:36 PM, Tom Van den Bergh <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it possible to delete my post: refinement protein structure from ccp4 bb, > i get too many bad reactions. I think its bettter to just delete the whole > topic. > > Greetings, > > Tom
