On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Ed Pozharski <epozh...@umaryland.edu>wrote:
> One can also release structure in the PDB prior to submission - I > believe the HPUB option is rarely (if ever) justified. > What's to prevent your closest competitor from downloading the structure and using it to solve and refine his or her own data? Then all they need to do is call their buddies from grad school who are now senior journal editors, and weasel their way into a high-profile article with minimal review. Surely everyone who has spent time in academia knows at least one tenured professor who does this. In principle, I mostly agree with your argument, but you'd need to convince all journals to agree to an embargo period for released-but-unpublished PDB entries - and it would still be very difficult to enforce. The PDB's current rules aren't always optimal, but it's not even close to as big a mess as science publishing. -Nat
