D Bonsor wrote:
> and allow someone else to have ago at solving the structure.
>
I'd be careful there if there was a motion to try to implement a policy
at SR sources (for academic research projects) to make it compulsory to
publically release all data frames after a period (1 year ? 2 years ? 4
years) during which you are supposed to solve the structures you have
collected the data for, so that others can have a go at it (and solve
the structures "for you"):
you may find yourself for example in between grants and need to spend
all of your time looking for funding for a couple of years, with little
or no staff working with you. With the trend we see of ever diminishing
resources, this would mean that the very large and well funded labs and
groups would solve their own structures, and solve those of smaller
groups as well (and publish the latter). This would then mean (after a
while) the concentration of macromolecular crystallography to only the
"lucky few" who have managed to secure large grants and will therefore
go-on securing such grants. You could call that "evolution" I suppose.
We are already in a situation where the crystallographers who solved the
structures are not necessarily authors on the publications reporting the
structures... so is it time to go back to home sources (X-ray
generators) for data collection ?
Fred.
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