Hi Fellows, thanks to all who have responded to my query. The response were very elucidating, and at the same time (a) consistent and (b) depressing, even for my slightly cynical standards....
As no good deed goes unpunished, I wonder whether the respondents (and anyone else) have a reasonable idea how much resources and/or money/fte allocated to each project they spend (relatively is enough) from (a) conception to data (bioinfo, cloning variants, expression screening, scale-up, purification, crystal screening, mounting, data collection) compared to (b) data to structure (including analysis and validation). It is relatively easy to get agency funding numbers, funding success rates etc, but those break-up data are elusive, which is probably due to the fact that we re-engineer and divert a lot from other sources to get the prelims... Many thanks again to everyone for responding. Best regards, BR ----------------------------------------------------------------- Bernhard Rupp 001 (925) 209-7429 +43 (676) 571-0536 [email protected] [email protected] http://www.ruppweb.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Physicist are there to find the laws of nature. Engineers are there to work around them. -----------------------------------------------------------------
