Hi Fellows,
thanks to all who have responded to my query. The response were very
elucidating,
and at the same time
(a) consistent and
(b) depressing, even for my slightly cynical standards....
As no good deed goes unpunished, I wonder whether the respondents (and
anyone else) have
a reasonable idea how much resources and/or money/fte allocated to each
project they spend (relatively is enough) from
(a) conception to data (bioinfo, cloning variants, expression screening,
scale-up, purification, crystal screening,
mounting, data collection) compared to (b) data to structure (including
analysis and validation).
It is relatively easy to get agency funding numbers, funding success rates
etc, but those
break-up data are elusive, which is probably due to the fact that we
re-engineer and
divert a lot from other sources to get the prelims...
Many thanks again to everyone for responding.
Best regards, BR
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