Re: [ccp4bb] one datum many data? [was Re: [ccp4bb] very informative - Trends in Data Fabrication]

2012-04-01 Thread Gerard Bricogne
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 01:18:15PM -0400, David Schuller wrote: On 04/01/12 10:18, Gerard Bricogne wrote: Dear Paul, May I join the mostly silent chorus of Greek/Latin-aware grumps who wince when seeing data treated as singular when it is plural. When it are plural? Good

Re: [ccp4bb] one datum many data? [was Re: [ccp4bb] very informative - Trends in Data Fabrication]

2012-04-01 Thread Phoebe Rice
...@bioch.ox.ac.uk) Subject: [ccp4bb] one datum many data? [was Re: [ccp4bb] very informative - Trends in Data Fabrication] To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK The PDBe page for 3k78 says: The experimental data has been deposited the data cif file says: data is under question Grump. Is it to late

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2012-04-01 Thread Bryan Lepore
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Kevin Jin kevin...@gmail.com wrote: I have seen several stories like this. Here is an open letter to Nature. http://www.jinkai.org/AAD/AAD_letter_2_nature.html I'd like to understand this better : please explain precisely, on this forum, the connection being

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2012-04-01 Thread Kevin Jin
“I hope and believe that this is not the case. Even basically-trained crystallographers should be able to calculate andinterpret difference maps of the kind described by Bernhard. And with the EDS and PDB_REDO server, one does not even need to know how to make generate a difference map ...”

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2012-04-01 Thread Bosch, Juergen
Grumpy old men :-) I feel hijacked or is hijacketed ? Don't we all speak and write perfect BE (not as in British English, but more like Bad English) ? May the impact factor for TiDF continue to be very low. Jürgen .. Jürgen Bosch Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School

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2012-04-01 Thread Kendall Nettles
What is the single Latin word for troll? Kendall On Apr 1, 2012, at 3:06 PM, Kevin Jin kevin...@gmail.commailto:kevin...@gmail.com wrote: “I hope and believe that this is not the case. Even basically-trained crystallographers should be able to calculate andinterpret difference maps of

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2012-04-01 Thread David Briggs
Trollus, Trollum, Trolli, Trollo, Trolli, Trollos, Trollorum, Trollis. David C. Briggs PhD Father, Structural Biologist and Sceptic University of Manchester E-mail: david.c.bri...@manchester.ac.uk Webs :

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2012-04-01 Thread Bernhard Rupp (Hofkristallrat a.D.)
orcus impudens From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Kendall Nettles Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 1:28 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] very informative - Trends in Data Fabrication What is the single Latin word for troll? Kendall

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2012-04-01 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Sunday, 01 April 2012, Kendall Nettles wrote: What is the single Latin word for troll? Kendall According to Google Translate, it is Troglodytarum. But I'm dubious. I thought trolls lived under bridges rather than in caves. Except for the ones who inhabit the internet, of course.

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2012-04-01 Thread Philippe DUMAS
David Briggs drdavidcbri...@gmail.com a écrit : Trollus, Trollum, Trolli, Trollo, Trolli, Trollos, Trollorum, Trollis. Should we say Alea data est or Alea data sunt ? Philippe DUMAS

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2012-04-01 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
http://trololololololololololo.com/ Trollus, Trollum, Trolli, Trollo, Trolli, Trollos, Trollorum, Trollis. David C. Briggs PhD Father, Structural Biologist and Sceptic University of Manchester E-mail: david.c.bri...@manchester.ac.uk

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2012-04-01 Thread Artem Evdokimov
I can't resist asking: If we assume that the data fabrication techniques and the techniques for discovery of such activities should have the same sort of arms race as the development of viruses and anti-malvare software (but of course on a much more modest scale since structural biology is a

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2012-03-31 Thread Bosch, Juergen
really fascinating, bringing back the discussion for a repository for your collected frames. Jürgen Acta Cryst. (2012). F68, 366-376 doi:10.1107/S1744309112008421http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S1744309112008421 Detection and analysis of unusual features in the structural model and

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2012-03-31 Thread Bernhard Rupp (Hofkristallrat a.D.)
, and then send the links. Best regards, BR From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Bosch, Juergen Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 8:26 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] very informative - Trends in Data Fabrication really fascinating, bringing back

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2012-03-31 Thread Nian Huang
I don't model zero occupancy in my model. But can't the refinement programs just treat those atoms with zero occupancy as missing atoms? Nian Huang On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Bosch, Juergen jubo...@jhsph.edu wrote: really fascinating, bringing back the discussion for a repository for

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2012-03-31 Thread Bernhard Rupp (Hofkristallrat a.D.)
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:29 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] very informative - Trends in Data Fabrication I don't model zero occupancy in my model. But can't the refinement programs just treat those atoms with zero occupancy as missing atoms? Nian Huang On Sat, Mar

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2012-03-31 Thread Michel Fodje
: CCP4 bulletin board [CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Bernhard Rupp (Hofkristallrat a.D.) [hofkristall...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 12:42 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] very informative - Trends in Data Fabrication This is an unresolved problem, and no real

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2012-03-31 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
Reading the paper from Dr. Hofkristallrat a.D. and the editorial in ActaF, I must say that besides the rather reasonable demand for journals to include crystallography experts as referees, Table 1 would have fooled me as referee. A validation report of the VTF style might not had helped either

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2012-03-31 Thread Kevin Jin
Nice paper ! I really wish PDB could have some people to review those important structures, like paper reviewer. If the coordinate is downloaded for modeling and docking, people may not check the density and model by themself. However this is not the worst case, since the original data was

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2012-03-31 Thread Pavel Afonine
Given a data set (Fobs or Iobs) and atomic model it is not trivial at all to tell whether they are real or fabricated. I looked into this problem for quite some time at some point, and developed my set of criteria that thoroughly attempt to distinguish between fake and real, but they can only be

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2012-03-31 Thread Tom Peat
informative - Trends in Data Fabrication Reading the paper from Dr. Hofkristallrat a.D. and the editorial in ActaF, I must say that besides the rather reasonable demand for journals to include crystallography experts as referees, Table 1 would have fooled me as referee. A validation report

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2012-03-31 Thread Kevin Jin
] On Behalf Of Anastassis Perrakis [a.perra...@nki.nl] Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 7:59 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] very informative - Trends in Data Fabrication Reading the paper from Dr. Hofkristallrat a.D. and the editorial in ActaF, I must say that besides the rather

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2012-03-31 Thread Bosch, Juergen
@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Anastassis Perrakis [a.perra...@nki.nlmailto:a.perra...@nki.nl] Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 7:59 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UKmailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] very informative - Trends in Data Fabrication Reading the paper from Dr. Hofkristallrat a.D

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2012-03-31 Thread Bernhard Rupp (Hofkristallrat a.D.)
Hofkristallrat außer Dienst, is written as Bernhard - unless you are referring to some other guy with a french name Bernard. As one may extrapolate given my recent paper, I have been called names a lot worse…. Ø And the book indeed is a bible of xtallography. Enough of this - it

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2012-03-31 Thread Bernhard Rupp (Hofkristallrat a.D.)
Btw, Table 1 would have fooled me as referee. Not if the bulk solvent parameters would be reported or validated. See recommendations. Best, BR

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