Re: [ccp4bb] Please share your experience about "ugly" crystals showing good diffraction

2018-06-29 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Good evening, Over the years I've seen great diffraction from any number of hideous brittle plates with perforated edges, 'Krypton skyscrapers', curved whiskers, 'hypodermic needles', even from crystals that looked like cat vomit (hairballs), and so forth. The structure *ab ovo* story is my

Re: [ccp4bb] Please share your experience about "ugly" crystals showing good diffraction

2018-06-29 Thread Mahmudul Hasan
Hi Anirban, Never thought someone will ask for image of 'ugly' crystals, but fortunately I have found some saved pictures which is more than 8 years old! I think I have a perfect example. The pictures can be found in the folder by following the link:

Re: [ccp4bb] [ccp4bb] Oxford University Press

2018-06-29 Thread Keller, Jacob
The one I don't get is why not pay reviewers? $1000 per review? If you look at publishers' profit margins, you will see that they can afford it. I actually think the scientific community should go on a "review strike" until reviewers get paid. JPK

Re: [ccp4bb] [ccp4bb] Oxford University Press

2018-06-29 Thread Petr Leiman
Indeed! Scientists in the Soviet Bloc got paid for publishing their scientific papers (and maybe for citations as well - not sure about that one)! We need to change the current system! Although these changes could be accompanied by many other pleasant virtues of the Soviet regime. Petr > On

[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Oxford University Press

2018-06-29 Thread Hughes, Jon
whose paper? our universities pay subscriptions for these journals and we even pay on top of that for the pages of our publications (even when they're not actually printed!), whilst we review papers for free! sounds like a well-validated way to use taxpayers' money to keep the expensive company

[ccp4bb] Two PhD positions in protein-based material science at RWTH Aachen University

2018-06-29 Thread Tobias Beck
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Re: [ccp4bb] Oxford University Press

2018-06-29 Thread Robbie Joosten
Yes, but think of all the money they miss due to your pirating of their paper ;) It's the typical discussion about whether piracy of copyrighted material leads to loss or gain of revenue. There are a lot of models here, but not necessarily well-validated. Anyway, if people want to read your

[ccp4bb] ORCIDs To Become Mandatory for OneDep Contact Authors

2018-06-29 Thread John Berrisford
The wwPDB OneDep system for deposition, validation and biocuration will require contact authors to provide their unique ORCID identifiers (https://orcid.org/) when preparing depositions later this summer. This change will enable wwPDB efforts to correctly attribute PDB structures to contact

Re: [ccp4bb] Oxford University Press

2018-06-29 Thread Bernhard Rupp
Agreed, but for 10 years old papers this seems a bit of overkill.. From: CCP4 bulletin board On Behalf Of Robbie Joosten Sent: Friday, June 29, 2018 12:11 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Oxford University Press Were they open access papers? If they were, than OUP is being

Re: [ccp4bb] Oxford University Press

2018-06-29 Thread Robbie Joosten
Were they open access papers? If they were, than OUP is being too aggressive (IMO), but otherwise it makes sense. I also find the ResearchGate is rather aggressive in bugging you to upload papers that are readily available from the publisher. The whole business bit in scientific publishing is a

[ccp4bb] Oxford University Press

2018-06-29 Thread Bernhard Rupp
Hi Fellows, just an advisory that Oxford University Press is pretty aggressive in enforcing copyright - I had to remove 2 Bioinformatics papers from ResearchGate. Fortunately, authors have choices, too.. Cheers, BR -- Bernhard

[ccp4bb] Crystals Special Issue "Crystal Growth in Gels"

2018-06-29 Thread Leonardo Lo Presti
Dear all, Hoping to please you, I inform you that submissions of contributions for a special issue of "Crystals" (IF 2.144) dedicated to crystallization in gels are welcome. Manuscripts can be related to theoretical and/or experimental aspects of crystallization in gel media. High-quality

Re: [ccp4bb] Please share your experience about "ugly" crystals showing good diffraction

2018-06-29 Thread Debanu Das
Hi Anirban, At JCSG, we subjected ~180,000 crystals from ~3500 unique/novel proteins/complexes to X-ray diffraction screening, resulting in >1500 novel structures in the PDB at an average resolution ~2.0A. In theory, if we had the bandwidth now to sort through all that data to pull out images of