Re: [ccp4bb] Retraction of 12 Structures

2009-12-14 Thread Sean Seaver
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:06:36 -0600, Tanner, John J. wrote: >Some of you might be curious about the "Ajees et al debacle" that Jacob mentioned in his message. Here are two links: > >Nature Brief Communication that questioned the validity of one of Murthy's structures: > >http://www.nature.com/na

Re: [ccp4bb] Retraction of 12 structures and experimental data deposition

2009-12-11 Thread James Whisstock
Dear Felix I agree - to address this Ash Buckle and colleagues have set up TARDIS (http://tardis.edu.au/experiment/view/) and built the associated tools for relatively painless deposition of data for registered users. As well as making the data available to others we find that this is also a gr

[ccp4bb] Retraction of 12 structures and experimental data deposition

2009-12-11 Thread Felix Frolow
In mathematics, when one is making a claim of solving the longstanding mathematical problem, it is a tradition that his colleagues mathematician will take care to check his solution. This solution MUST stood up to the scrutiny of the world's expert. As an example see http://en.wikipedia.org/wi

Re: [ccp4bb] Retraction of 12 Structures

2009-12-10 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
It seems that at least some of the primary authors, were starting PhD students. For Ajees, as far as i know, he was given the mtz as soon as he joined the lab, told that they have this data for a while, and asked to see if the new software would do it. Not difficult to imagine. A. == I assume

Re: [ccp4bb] Retraction of 12 Structures

2009-12-10 Thread Paul Emsley
Tanner, John J. wrote: Some of you might be curious about the "Ajees et al debacle" that Jacob mentioned in his message. Here are two links: Nature Brief Communication that questioned the validity of one of Murthy's structures: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7154/full/nature0610

[ccp4bb] Retraction of 12 Structures

2009-12-10 Thread Tanner, John J.
Some of you might be curious about the "Ajees et al debacle" that Jacob mentioned in his message. Here are two links: Nature Brief Communication that questioned the validity of one of Murthy's structures: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7154/full/nature06102.html Murthy's rebuttal