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Dear Mark Stay calm Buzz-words come and very frequently do not stay, they go away with the artifacts they advocate... Dr Felix Frolow Professor of Structural Biology and Biotechnology Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology Tel Aviv University 69978, Israel Acta Crystallographica D, co-editor e-mail: [log in to unmask] Tel: ++972 3640 8723 Fax: ++972 3640 9407 Cellular: ++972 547 459 608 On Mar 12, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Mark J. van Raaij wrote: > Dear All, > > a News & Views article in Nature 458, pages 37-38 of 5 March 2009 > (link below) states: > "The development of structural biology WAS historically based on the > principle of divide and conquer — individual proteins were purified > to homogeneity and their atomic structures were solved in vitro by > using either X-ray crystallography or nuclear magnetic resonance > (NMR) spectroscopy. This approach WAS tremendously successful, and > led to the creation of a protein-structure databank that currently > contains more than 50,000 structures." > > I find the past tense here too much... > > Greetings, > > Mark > > Mark J. van Raaij > Dpto de Bioquímica, Facultad de Farmacia > Universidad de Santiago > 15782 Santiago de Compostela > Spain > http://web.usc.es/~vanraaij/ > > http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7234/full/458037a.html > Structural biology: Inside the living cell