> go the Rupp Route:  Name and Shame!

Thanks for the character reference.

Best, BR



On 07/04/2020 16:08, Artem Evdokimov wrote:

Dear CCP4ers, 

 

I would like to solicit your thoughts on the following (this is a real 
situation, but salient details are changed):

 

Imagine that you're an industrial scientist in a small company, working on the 
Bavarian Sausage (Weisswurst) Esterase project. The overall structure is 
previously unknown, with no good homologs in the PDB, trying to model is "OK 
not great" so the structure is really needed...

 

Then, you find an article from a large commercial competitor, that somehow 
managed to solve the Stadtwurst (Saxony Sausage) Esterase structure (which is a 
very close homolog to the one you need!). 

 

Sounds good - but as you read the paper you realize that the authors managed to 
find a journal that allowed them to publish their work without disclosing 
neither the coordinates of the model, nor even the crystallization conditions 
of the protein - all that's available is a tantalizing still picture of the 
active site in surface mode, with a ball-and-stick ligand positioned such that 
it is impossible to say what it interacts with. 

 

So you sit and ponder - whether to write to the Editor, or maybe to contact the 
authors directly (but then they would know that you're working on this, which 
is not necessarily great since you're competing), or to just buck up and do the 
structure on your own (which feels a bit wasteful). Then, you realize that your 
friends at CCP4 have a lot of wisdom to offer, so you sit down and pen an 
email...

 

Any thoughts?

 

Artem

 

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