Write to the editor - that's their job.
Though they may also see it as their job to ignore emails like yours
because that's far easier than dealing with them.
Alternatively, go the Rupp Route: Name and Shame! ;)
On 07/04/2020 16:08, Artem Evdokimov wrote:
Dear CCP4ers,
I would like to solicit your thoughts on the following (this is a real
situation, but salient details are changed):
Imagine that you're an industrial scientist in a small company,
working on the Bavarian Sausage (Weisswurst) Esterase project. The
overall structure is previously unknown, with no good homologs in the
PDB, trying to model is "OK not great" so the structure is really
needed...
Then, you find an article from a large commercial competitor, that
somehow managed to solve the Stadtwurst (Saxony Sausage) Esterase
structure (which is a very close homolog to the one you need!).
Sounds good - but as you read the paper you realize that the authors
managed to find a journal that allowed them to publish their work
without disclosing neither the coordinates of the model, nor even the
crystallization conditions of the protein - all that's available is a
tantalizing still picture of the active site in surface mode, with a
ball-and-stick ligand positioned such that it is impossible to say
what it interacts with.
So you sit and ponder - whether to write to the Editor, or maybe to
contact the authors directly (but then they would know that you're
working on this, which is not necessarily great since you're
competing), or to just buck up and do the structure on your own (which
feels a bit wasteful). Then, you realize that your friends at CCP4
have a lot of wisdom to offer, so you sit down and pen an email...
Any thoughts?
Artem
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