> 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,
Why and how such referees and editors reach such levels in academia? On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 at 17:18, Frank von Delft <frank.vonde...@sgc.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > > 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 > > ________________________________ > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > > > ________________________________ > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1
