Dear Colleagues, This is a further instance of likely scientific fraud in macromolecular crystallography, ie under formal investigation at the relevant university.
Both Bernhard and the Acta D and F Editors further document aspects in their written pieces related to the need for diffraction data images availability. The call for a 'universal system' by the Editors, in their Editorial, is also what the IUCr Forum on these matters has also been discussing. A possible convergence on local raw data repositories, with each data set doi registered where it underpins a publication, detailed by the IUCr DDD WG thus far, is unlikely to be 'universal' in its global coverage. But setting standards by encouraging raw data archives in our field will afford a much needed clarity in favour of retaining raw data wherever possible. A separate issue will be, in my view, the certain expansion of current validation checks. Indeed it is the standard practice in chemical crystallography submissions to IUCr journals for Co-Editors to validate the structure determination and refinement, including omit map calculations where appropriate. Of course this is most often a much easier task in chemical crystallography, per crystal structure checked, than would be the case for macromolecular crystallography. Again I encourage colleagues to lodge their inputs at the IUCr Forum on any aspect of principle or practice in achieving diffraction raw data archiving. Best wishes, John John R Helliwell On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Manfred S. Weiss <manfred.we...@helmholtz-berlin.de> wrote: > Dear all, > > I find this discussion most amazing. Here, we are dealing with the most > serious issue > that happened to Macromolecular Crystallography since the Alabama case, > and the > whole discussion is centered around singular and plural and Greek and > Latin words > and what not. > > In psychology such phenomenon is referred to as displacement activity. > > If you are interested, here is the MacMillon definition of it: > > http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/displacement-activity > > Cheers, > > Manfred > > > > On 01.04.2012 19:35, Gerard Bricogne wrote: >> >> On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 01:18:15PM -0400, David Schuller wrote: >>> >>> On 04/01/12 10:18, Gerard Bricogne wrote: >>>> >>>> Dear Paul, >>>> >>>> May I join the mostly silent chorus of Greek/Latin-aware grumps >>>> who >>>> wince when seeing "data" treated as singular when it is plural. >>> >>> When it are plural? >> >> Good nit-picking :-) . In my mind the quotes around "data" would have >> had the same effect as writing 'the word "data"', and referring to that >> word >> by the 'it'. So there is only one word, while its grammatical number is >> plural. >> >> >>> At any rate, I heard a Nobel laureate use it incorrectly just two days >>> ago. >> >> We shouldn't learn to write by imitating Nobel laureates, then. >> >> >> With best wishes, >> >> Gerard. >> >>> -- >>> ======================================================================= >>> All Things Serve the Beam >>> ======================================================================= >>> David J. Schuller >>> modern man in a post-modern world >>> MacCHESS, Cornell University >>> schul...@cornell.edu > > > -- > Dr. Manfred. S. Weiss > Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie > Macromolecular Crystallography (HZB-MX) > Albert-Einstein-Str. 15 > D-12489 Berlin > GERMANY > Fon: +49-30-806213149 > Fax: +49-30-806214975 > Web: http://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/bessy-mx > Email: mswe...@helmholtz-berlin.de > > > ________________________________ > > Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH > > Mitglied der Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren > e.V. > > Aufsichtsrat: Vorsitzender Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Joachim Treusch, stv. > Vorsitzende Dr. Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph > Geschäftsführerin: Prof. Dr. Anke Rita Kaysser-Pyzalla > > Sitz Berlin, AG Charlottenburg, 89 HRB 5583 > > Postadresse: > Hahn-Meitner-Platz 1 > D-14109 Berlin > > http://www.helmholtz-berlin.de -- Professor John R Helliwell DSc
