On Mar 4, 2016, at 8:44 AM, Zachary A. Wood <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Don’t get me wrong, RAVE does a fantastic job, but it is a bit time consuming and seems ripe for some automation (especially when teaching undergrads how to do this stuff).
My heart is breaking.
Yes automation has its place, particularly in very experienced crystallographers, and perhaps industry.
However, especially for students*, there's nothing more exciting (and satisfying) than starting with a cruddy density, combined with some biochemical intuition and, if you're lucky, some biochemistry experiments, be able to improve phases and build an atomic model *by hand*.
Sad is the day when students receive perfect / high resolution data, click a few buttons, and walk away with a built structure.
I hope its not to this point yet.
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