Pilot phase, opt-in--eventually, mandatory? Like structure factors? Jacob
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Adrian Goldman <adrian.gold...@helsinki.fi> wrote: > I have no problem with this idea as an opt-in. However I loathe being forced > to do things - for my own good or anyone else's. But unless I read the tenor > of this discussion completely wrongly, opt-in is precisely what is not being > proposed. > > Adrian Goldman > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 31 Oct 2011, at 18:02, Jacob Keller <j-kell...@fsm.northwestern.edu> wrote: > >> Dear Crystallographers, >> >> I am sending this to try to start a thread which addresses only the >> specific issue of whether to archive, at least as a start, images >> corresponding to PDB-deposited structures. I believe there could be a >> real consensus about the low cost and usefulness of this degree of >> archiving, but the discussion keeps swinging around to all levels of >> archiving, obfuscating who's for what and for what reason. What about >> this level, alone? All of the accompanying info is already entered >> into the PDB, so there would be no additional costs on that score. >> There could just be a simple link, added to the "download files" >> pulldown, which could say "go to image archive," or something along >> those lines. Images would be pre-zipped, maybe even tarred, and people >> could just download from there. What's so bad? >> >> The benefits are that sometimes there are structures in which >> resolution cutoffs might be unreasonable, or perhaps there is some >> potential radiation damage in the later frames that might be >> deleterious to interpretations, or perhaps there are ugly features in >> the images which are invisible or obscure in the statistics. >> >> In any case, it seems to me that this step would be pretty painless, >> as it is merely an extension of the current system--just add a link to >> the pulldown menu! >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Jacob Keller >> >> -- >> ******************************************* >> Jacob Pearson Keller >> Northwestern University >> Medical Scientist Training Program >> email: j-kell...@northwestern.edu >> ******************************************* >> > -- ******************************************* Jacob Pearson Keller Northwestern University Medical Scientist Training Program email: j-kell...@northwestern.edu *******************************************
