Letter send on the behalf of Dr. Les Loew: Dear Crystallography Community, The Biophysical Journal (BJ) and the Biophysical Society leadership recently published a joint Editorial entitled “Reproducibility of Research in Biophysics<http://www.cell.com/biophysj/abstract/S0006-3495%2815%2900230-1>”, which introduced a comprehensive and evolving set of “Guidelines for the Reproducibility of Biophysics Research<http://www.cell.com/pb/assets/raw/journals/society/biophysj/PDFs/reproducibility-guidelines.pdf>”. These Guidelines are designed to require enough detail and transparency to ensure that research results can be replicated and reused. Part of these guidelines reinforce and enhance our long-standing policy that atomic models be deposited in the PDB. Our Editorial prompted some members of the Structural Biology Community to raise a concern that authors occasionally refer to a structure in the PDB without properly citing the original published source that reported the structure. Accordingly, BJ has added the following explicit policy to its Author Guidelines<http://www.cell.com/pb/assets/raw/journals/society/biophysj/PDFs/author-guidelines.pdf>: “Manuscripts that refer to information in a public database (such as structures in the RCSB Protein Data Bank) must cite the publication, if available, in which the original information was reported.” Best, Les Loew Editor in Chief, Biophysical Journal
PS. Submissions are open for the BJ Special Issue, edited by Ed Egelman and Andreas Engel, on Electron Cryomicroscopy<http://www.cell.com/pb/assets/raw/journals/society/biophysj/PDFs/electron-cryomicroscopy.pdf>. — Leslie M. Loew Boehringer Ingelheim Chair in Cell Sciences Professor of Cell Biology Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Director, R. D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling Editor in Chief, Biophysical Journal University of Connecticut Health Center 400 Farmington Avenue Farmington, CT 06030-6406 (860)679-3568 l...@volt.uchc.edu<mailto:l...@volt.uchc.edu<mailto:l...@volt.uchc.edu%3cmailto:l...@volt.uchc.edu>> CCAM: www.ccam.uchc.edu<http://www.ccam.uchc.edu/> Virtual Cell: www.vcell.org<http://www.vcell.org/>
