Jon Wright wrote,
>Perhaps I am just a bit slow, but I think it would take more than 15
>minutes to check this, unless you have access to specialised software?
In this context, checking just means that you verify that
the entry in the database is the perfect image of the original
publication. Your job is not to substitute to some referee which
may not have done a previous good review. If interatomic
distances calculated from the coordinates are not consistent
with those listed in the paper or with usual values, then this
is to be indicated in some REM and TEST lines, as well as any
problem suggested by checking software like PLATON.
To the database user to be careful and doubt enough about
some entries.
The number of papers published in crystallography which
have incorrect space group or cell choice are quite numerous.
Databases should show exactly the same number (5-10%
or even more ??).
Best,
Armel Le Bail - Universite du Maine, Laboratoire des Fluorures,
CNRS ESA 6010, Av. O. Messiaen, 72085 Le Mans Cedex 9, France
http://www.cristal.org/
