On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Bernhard Rupp <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hmmm….does that mean that the journals are now the ultimate authority of > what stays in the PDB? > > I find this slightly irritating and worthy of change. > http://www.wwpdb.org/UAB.html "It is the current wwPDB (Worldwide PDB) policy that entries can be made obsolete following a request from the people responsible for publishing it (be it the principal author or journal editors)." I'm not sure I understand why things should be any different; the PDB is not advertising itself as anything other than an archival service, unlike the journals which are supposed to be our primary mechanism of quality control. -Nat
