On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Tim Gruene <t...@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de> wrote: > I would assume that someone who publishes crystallisation conditions has > given up solving the structure or some other reason to encourage others > to pick up the project, i.e., no, I don't see much point NOT > publishing your data.
I always assumed that the point of publishing crystallization conditions was to establish priority, and apparently there was once such an unspoken rule about publishing the structure. Or so I'm told; from what I've seen it's long abandoned. A bit of historical perspective (about a very high-profile project): http://www.sciencemag.org/content/285/5436/2048.full -Nat
