Thanks for all the replies and sorry for rerun of a thread. I however have two 
additional questions:
- Why is the pdb still available without any obvious sign of the fraud?
- Why is the paper stil available ?

Fred

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> Le 6 févr. 2015 à 12:16, Randy Read <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> Actually, if you go back through the archive of CCP4-BB from the first time 
> this came up, I think you'll find that there are real crystals with apparent 
> gaps in the packing.  This can arise because of statistical disorder, where 
> there are two or more ways that a statistically-disordered layer in the 
> crystal can mediate the interaction between ordered layers.  So not finding a 
> connected packing is something to look closely at and worry about, but it 
> doesn't necessarily indicate that somebody did a bad job of making up a 
> structure.
> 
> Randy
> 
> On 6 Feb 2015, at 11:09, Robbie Joosten <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>> Not in real crystal structures ;)
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Robbie
>> 
>> Sent with my Windows Phone
>> Van: Kerff Fred <mailto:[email protected]>
>> Verzonden: ‎6-‎2-‎2015 12:02
>> Aan: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> Onderwerp: [ccp4bb] Absence of contact between layers in a crystal
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Looking at structure 2HR0 ("The structure of complement C3b provides 
>> insights into complement activation and regulation. »,Abdul Ajees, A.,  
>> Gunasekaran, K.,  Volanakis, J.E.,  Narayana, S.V.,  Kotwal, G.J.,  Krishna 
>> Murthy, H.M.;  (2006) Nature 444: 221-225), I noticed the absence of 
>> contacts between layers in the crystal. Is it something that has already 
>> been observed in other crystals?
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Fred
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>> Frédéric Kerff
>> Chercheur qualifié F.R.S.-FNRS
>> Cristallographie des protéines
>> Centre d'Ingénierie des Protéines
>> Université de Liège
>> 17, Allée du 6 Août - Bat B5a
>> 4000 Liège (Belgium)
>> Tel.: +32 (0)4 3663620
>> Fax: +32 (0)4 3663772
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> > Le 6 févr. 2015 à 10:12, Tim Gruene <[email protected] 
>> > <mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :
>> > 
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>> > Dear Smith,
>> > 
>> > The sca file most likely does not contain flags. pointless can read
>> > the sca file, standardise it to ccp4 standards and freerflag marks
>> > random reflections. You should use the maximum of 500 unique
>> > reflections or 5% of the unique reflections, whichever is larger.
>> > 
>> > Best,
>> > Tim
>> > 
>> > On 02/06/2015 09:49 AM, Smith Lee wrote:
>> >> Dear All, I have a sca file. Will you please tell me by which
>> >> software or how I can know whether the sca file contains R-free
>> >> tags? If not, by which software or how I can add the R-free tags?
>> >> And how much of the reflections I add the R-free tags? I am looking
>> >> forward to getting your reply. Smith
>> >> 
>> > 
>> > - -- 
>> > - --
>> > Dr Tim Gruene
>> > Institut fuer anorganische Chemie
>> > Tammannstr. 4
>> > D-37077 Goettingen
>> > 
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> 
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