Dear Colleagues,
This is a further instance of likely scientific fraud in
macromolecular crystallography, ie under formal investigation at the
relevant university.
Both Bernhard and the Acta D and F Editors further document aspects in
their written pieces related to the need for diffraction data images
availability. The call for a 'universal system' by the Editors, in
their Editorial, is also what the IUCr Forum on these matters has also
been discussing. A possible convergence on local raw data
repositories, with each data set doi registered where it underpins a
publication, detailed by the IUCr DDD WG thus far, is unlikely to be
'universal' in its global coverage. But setting standards by
encouraging raw data archives in our field will afford a much needed
clarity in favour of retaining raw data wherever possible. A separate
issue will be, in my view, the certain expansion of current validation
checks. Indeed it is the standard practice in chemical crystallography
submissions to IUCr journals for Co-Editors to validate the structure
determination and refinement, including omit map calculations where
appropriate. Of course this is most often a much easier task in
chemical crystallography, per crystal structure checked, than would be
the case for macromolecular crystallography.
Again I encourage colleagues to lodge their inputs at the IUCr Forum
on any aspect of principle or practice in achieving diffraction raw
data archiving.
Best wishes,
John
John R Helliwell
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Manfred S. Weiss
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> Dear all,
>
> I find this discussion most amazing. Here, we are dealing with the most
> serious issue
> that happened to Macromolecular Crystallography since the Alabama case,
> and the
> whole discussion is centered around singular and plural and Greek and
> Latin words
> and what not.
>
> In psychology such phenomenon is referred to as displacement activity.
>
> If you are interested, here is the MacMillon definition of it:
>
> http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/displacement-activity
>
> Cheers,
>
> Manfred
>
>
>
> On 01.04.2012 19:35, Gerard Bricogne wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 01:18:15PM -0400, David Schuller wrote:
>>>
>>> On 04/01/12 10:18, Gerard Bricogne wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear Paul,
>>>>
>>>> May I join the mostly silent chorus of Greek/Latin-aware grumps
>>>> who
>>>> wince when seeing "data" treated as singular when it is plural.
>>>
>>> When it are plural?
>>
>> Good nit-picking :-) . In my mind the quotes around "data" would have
>> had the same effect as writing 'the word "data"', and referring to that
>> word
>> by the 'it'. So there is only one word, while its grammatical number is
>> plural.
>>
>>
>>> At any rate, I heard a Nobel laureate use it incorrectly just two days
>>> ago.
>>
>> We shouldn't learn to write by imitating Nobel laureates, then.
>>
>>
>> With best wishes,
>>
>> Gerard.
>>
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