Hi Jacob,

There is (very) BIG difference between depositing images for deposited 
structures and depositing all images ever recorded by any crystallographer on 
the planet. In the case you presented, A and B can settle the issue by looking 
at each other's images whether through the database or by exchanging data on 
their own initiative or even by writing a note to a journal that they 
completely disagree with one another and start a debate (in case one of them is 
not willing to exchange images). Besides, I thought that by now there are some 
standards on how data should be processed (this has been discussed on this BB 
once every few months, if I'm not mistaken). Isn't that part of the validation 
process that so many good people have established? Also, to the best of my 
knowledge (and experience) referees (at least of some journals) are instructed 
to look into those issues these days and comment about them, aren't they?

  Cheers,

            Boaz


Boaz Shaanan, Ph.D.
Dept. of Life Sciences
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer-Sheva 84105
Israel

E-mail: bshaa...@bgu.ac.il
Phone: 972-8-647-2220  Skype: boaz.shaanan
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From: CCP4 bulletin board [CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] on behalf of Jacob Keller 
[j-kell...@fsm.northwestern.edu]
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 5:05 PM
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] raw data deposition

What about a case in which two investigators have differences about
what cutoff to apply to the data, for example, A thinks that Rsym of
50 should be used regardless of I/sig, and B thinks that I/sig of 2
and Rpim should be used. Usually A would cut off the data at a lower
resolution than B, especially with high multiplicity, so B would love
to have the images to see what extra info could be gleaned from a
higher-res cutoff. Or the converse, A is skeptical of B's cutoff, and
wants to see whether the data according to A's cutoff justify B's
conclusion. Don't these types of things happen a lot, and wouldn't
images be helpful for this?

JPK

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