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Yep,

phenix.fake_f_obs

is available for use since April 22, 2011, but I made it such that it will
only do "the right thing" in experienced hands -;) and I wouldn't teach it
unless you sign a disclaimer -:)

It's good for developers though who want to do fully controllable numeric
experiments to test ideas.

Pavel

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:39 AM, James Kiefer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Dear Jacob,
>
> With all due respect, you have left out a key component to successful
> data fabrication in the modern age: software.  It is quite obtuse not
> to have allocated at least one day of the workshop for practical
> applications of Photoshop to diffraction image generation and at least
> a passing coverage of whether or not Adobe Lightroom and
> crystallographic presets therein will be sufficiently capable of
> muddling the RCSB staff analysis of data feasibility checking.
>
> I would very much like to see Gerard Bricogne present a keynote
> lecture entitled something like, "The R-Fake Parameter: A Maximum
> Likelihood Modulus to Define a Minimum Acceptable Data Drift
> Coefficient for Use in the Fabrication of Credibly Artificial
> Diffraction Data."
>
> I also believe that we are perhaps full of hubris as a
> crystallographic community, because an entire field of faked
> structural data has existed long before crystallographers even
> considered manufacturing their data.  Specifically,  the molecular
> modeling community has already surpassed us in their thinking on the
> subject.  While we idly discuss how to properly generate false data,
> they have had the foresight to abandon ALL data...and even the
> starting coordinates in crystal structures - be they real or
> fictitious - and publish volumes of papers entirely unencumbered by
> reality or plausibility.  My hat is off to them.
>
> Best regards,
> Jim
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Jacob Keller
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Dear CCP4BB,
> >
> > due to increasing demand, it seems we should put together a workshop on
> data
> > fabrication, covering the various important topics (chaired by JHo):
> >
> > --Images: the future of fabrication? How long can we rely on database
> > Luddism?
> > --Ways out: how to leave a trail of "accidental" data mix-ups
> > --Publish large or small? Cost-benefit analyses of impact factor vs.
> risk of
> > being discovered
> > --Pushing the envelope: how significant is two [sic] significant
> > --Crossing discipline boundaries: are data fabrication procedures
> universal?
> > --Build a better "hofkristallrat"-trap: utilization of rhetorical bombast
> > and indignation in reply letters
> >
> > --Break-out support-session with survivors: comforting words on careers
> > after the fall
> >
> > --Session on the inextricably-related topic of grammatical pedantry, to
> be
> > followed by a soccer (football?) match Greeks Vs. Latins
> >
> > Ample funding will be available from big pharma and other industry
> sectors
> >
> > Please submit further topics to the CCP4BB list
> >
> > JPK
> >
> > ps I can't believe no one mentioned the loathsome Latino-Greek
> "multimer" in
> > the recent curmudgeonry postings.
> >
> >
> > *******************************************
> > Jacob Pearson Keller
> > Northwestern University
> > Medical Scientist Training Program
> > email: [log in to unmask]
> > *******************************************
>
>
>
> --
>
> James Kiefer, Ph.D.
> Structural Biology
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