Thank you, Robbie. I think this analysis is perhaps even more timely given the rumours emanating from the White House regarding an executive order covering macromolecules.
Draft text (smuggled out over the US-Canadian border in a dry shipper) as follows: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1: Macromolecules All amino acids and carbohydrates now to be right wing handed only, all levo forms to be outlawed All proteins containing trans peptide bonds to be banned. Non-binary amino acid Glycine to be banned. Proline is not a real amino acid and will be banned immediately. Phenylalanine looks and sounds a little bit like Fentanyl, banned immediately. Section 2: Tools for Macromolecular Structure Determination XDS to be renamed XXDS or XYDS, depending upon the chromosomal make up of the user. PROCHECK. Might have something to do with pronouns. Banned. Any software tools that attempts to remove bias. Banned. DIALS? More like DEIALS. Banned. PDB-REDO. Real winners don't need a second chance. Banned. <<EOF>> Truly dark times. Stay strong, Dave -- Dr David C. Briggs CSci MRSB (he/him) Principal Laboratory Research Scientist Signalling and Structural Biology Lab The Francis Crick Institute London, UK Working hours: Mon-Fri 0900-1700 == about.me/david_briggs<https://about.me/david_briggs> | OrcID<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9793-7339> | Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=DRKG5KwAAAAJ> == "Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules...were just as experiments suggested?" – Dorothy Hodgkin ________________________________ From: CCP4 bulletin board <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> on behalf of Elliot Morgan <morgan.method...@gmail.com> Sent: 01 April 2025 03:33 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] POTUS and the PDB External Sender: Use caution. Nice piece of work! It should be published in the public domain. Elliot On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM Jurgen Bosch <0000dacafb9366f7-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk<mailto:0000dacafb9366f7-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk>> wrote: Well done and an excellent read! Jürgen > On Mar 31, 2025, at 5:31 PM, Robbie Joosten > <robbie_joos...@hotmail.com<mailto:robbie_joos...@hotmail.com>> wrote: > > Dear CCP4bb members, > > This month on the CCP4bb we discussed the effect of the current US president > on the science and society in quite a lot of detail. I think a fair > comparison between this and previous presidents is in order and luckily Gert > Vriend performed this analysis for the PDB just before the month ended. > > Cheers, > Robbie > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > This message was issued to members of > www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB>, a mailing list > hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk>, terms & conditions > are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/ > <POTUS.pdf> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB>, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk>, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/ ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 The Francis Crick Institute Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales no. 1140062 and a company registered in England and Wales no. 06885462, with its registered office at 1 Midland Road London NW1 1AT ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
