This particular poll is fairly innocuous, but it does remind me to make
a general comment on polls on ccp4bb. There seems to be an increasing
trend of running polls on ccp4bb, some of them getting very specific
with regard to program or instrument or manufacturer.
While it is certainly useful to gather other people's experiences, there
is a tendency to draw conclusions not backed by evidence (low number of
responses, not comparing like with like, etc.). It has been suggested
that scientists are not supposed to do this ....
In fact, we have received objections to some polls that have been run
here. I think the rule is, it is ok to gather people's experiences, but
if you want to draw firm conclusions you need to do a proper
peer-reviewed study.
As we wish ccp4bb to remain self-policing, there is an etiquette section
at http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/ccp4bb.php
Cheers
Martyn
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 16:13 +0900, Ngo Duc Tri wrote:
> Dear Crystallography Scientists,
>
> We are working on some membrane proteins and would like to apply
> monoclonal antibody to facilitate the crystallization. Even this
> method showed very good results in some cases, I am really not sure
> about other failure cases that are not reported.
>
> Because this method is quite expensive and labourous, having the
> statistics of the failures is quite helpful for researchers to decide
> what they should do. That's the reason I would like to ask you to give
> some minutes to make a poll. Your information is really helpful for
> other researchers who are considering to apply this method to their
> project.
>
> Thank you so much for your time!
>
> Voter: Any researchers who are working on membrane protein.
> Please follow this link to submit your vote.
> http://smsb1.skku.ac.kr/pages/mypoll/
>
> With best regards,
> TriNgo,
> PhD Student,
> School of Medicine - Sungkyukwan University, Korea
> Lab: http://smsb1.skku.ac.kr/
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