Since the discussion for crystallographers is fired up. I want to put on
record that I totally agree with Tassos about the profile of a
crystallographer. If you take away the crystals, then a crystallographer
is no long a crystallographer.
Demetres
On 13/1/2013 9:52 μμ, Anastassis Perrakis w
Hi all,
Sorry for the incredibly dumb and off topic question. I've been doing some
steady state michaelis menten kinetics, and no one around me has ever done it
before. My own classroom training was years ago and so I've forgotten a great
deal and have just been going from old textbooks/papers.
I agree with Tassos, and btw think that this crystallographer, should be
able to go back into the lab and optimize the present crystal conditions
to get better crystals. In particularly, when he or she realize that the
scientific question they set out to investigate cannot be answered, by
analy
> I think the real challenge (and one that makes for an excellent
> macromolecular crystallographer) is how well one can interpret a map with
> poor phases.
Let me disagree ... An excellent macromolecular crystallographer, is one that
given some crystals can derive the best strategy to collect
Ok, I'll bite.
"I dare anyone who considers themself an expert macromolecular crystallographer
to find a way to build out of this map."
I put emphasis on "this map".
"Short of actually cheating (see below), there doesn't seem to be any automated
way to arrive at a solved structure from these
I have now looked at James's two challenges to see what I could learn
from them, and will try to give enough details so that less experienced
readers of this list can repeat what I did and apply the experience
thereby gained to solving their own structures. For those who are not
interested in
