Dear Fred,
Frankly, with respect, this sounds to me like fanciful and rather
non-sensical paranoia. The time frame for public disclosure of all SR data
has been quoted at 5 years, or something of that order. If someone has been
unable to solve a structure 5 years after having collected data on it, then
it does make perfect sense that he/she be "rescued" in one way or another.
Any responsible scientist in that situation would have called for specialist
help long before then, and having failed to do so would indicate a loss of
interest in the project anyway.
This is again the type of argument that strays away from a serious
question by throwing decoys around the place. Of course such views must be
heard, but so should the counter-arguments of those who disagree with them.
With best wishes,
Gerard.
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On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:42:25AM +0200, Vellieux Frederic wrote:
> D Bonsor wrote:
>> and allow someone else to have ago at solving the structure.
>>
>
> I'd be careful there if there was a motion to try to implement a policy at
> SR sources (for academic research projects) to make it compulsory to
> publically release all data frames after a period (1 year ? 2 years ? 4
> years) during which you are supposed to solve the structures you have
> collected the data for, so that others can have a go at it (and solve the
> structures "for you"):
>
> you may find yourself for example in between grants and need to spend all
> of your time looking for funding for a couple of years, with little or no
> staff working with you. With the trend we see of ever diminishing
> resources, this would mean that the very large and well funded labs and
> groups would solve their own structures, and solve those of smaller groups
> as well (and publish the latter). This would then mean (after a while) the
> concentration of macromolecular crystallography to only the "lucky few" who
> have managed to secure large grants and will therefore go-on securing such
> grants. You could call that "evolution" I suppose.
>
> We are already in a situation where the crystallographers who solved the
> structures are not necessarily authors on the publications reporting the
> structures... so is it time to go back to home sources (X-ray generators)
> for data collection ?
>
> Fred.
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