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
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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
