Re: [o-info] Re: [ccp4bb]: [SUMMARY]: Problems with PDB entry 1muo

["N.Ramasubbu" <ramasun1@UMDNJ.EDU>]

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Here is a simple solution. This may mean more work for the editors/reviewers
of the journals, but for the sake of uniform policy
and to maintain science to its true form, it is worth the while.
Editors should not send a paper for review unless the authors submit a disk
containing coordinates and structure factors.
The submission of the disk containing the relevant data should match the
resolution being reported in the current
manuscript.
If a manuscript is rejected, the editors returns the disk to the authors.
If accepted, the editor will send the data to PDB with the stipulation that
these be released immediately or coinciding with
the date of publication.
And to make it even more honest, the reveiwers should as a routine insist on
getting the data and check the validity of the submitted data.
Here it goes....
subbu

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anastassis Perrakis" <perrakis@nki.nl>
To: "Chris Prodromou" <Chris.Prodromou@icr.ac.uk>
Cc: <ccp4bb@dl.ac.uk>; <o-info@origo.imsb.au.dk>; <pdb-l@sdsc.edu>;
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Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 8:05 AM
Subject: Re: [o-info] Re: [ccp4bb]: [SUMMARY]: Problems with PDB entry 1muo


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> > Researchers who obtain structures may not wish to lose the advantage
> > that their work has generated and may put off publishing for a year or
> > so to keep the advantage. They could present there structures at
> > meetings and publish later.
> >
> > secondly, they may chose to publish in Journals which don't have
> > strict polycies about deposition of coordinates.
> >
>
> I would like to strongly encourage all fellow crystallographers, and
> mostly my direct competitors, to follow that policy suggestion.
> Please, do hold your structures unpublished for a year (or better two).
> When you publish, please choose
> a journal that does not need coordinates - keep in mind that this
> excludes Cell, Nature, Science, EMBO, NSB, Structure, Neuron,
> Molecular Cell,  Genes&Dev, PNAS, iUCR journals, etc etc
>
> tassos
>
>
> PS I should note I plan to refrain from adapting the same policy for
> myself and members of my lab.
>