[ccp4bb] Milestones in Crystallography

2011-06-19 Thread Lena Griese
Dear CCP4ers, after 3 years without working in structural biology and crystallography, this summer I will have my PhD defence. As I am now working in a complete different field I would be happy to know what happened in structural biology the last years worth to mention. Is there finally the "solve

Re: [ccp4bb] Milestones in Crystallography

2011-06-19 Thread Frank von Delft
Oh wow, talk about challenging a community to confront their own worst fears of stagnation and irrelevance! Hehe - never mind cat in the pigeons, more like a man-eating tiger in a shanty-town. Wouldn't top of the list be "dwindling budget priority"? :-) But okay, back to specifically structu

Re: [ccp4bb] Milestones in Crystallography

2011-06-19 Thread George M. Sheldrick
Dear Lena, Structural biology has made enormous progress in the last two decades but it has essentially been a cumulative process involving many people and ideas. If you have to restrict the choice to a "solve structure" button within the last three years then I would vote for Isabel Uson's AR

Re: [ccp4bb] Milestones in Crystallography

2011-06-19 Thread Richard Edward Gillilan
Three years is starting to be a reasonable time interval to see interesting scientific progress. On the 1 or 2 years time scale it is hard, as anyone organizing annual meetings will tell you. One thing I would do is to browse the abstracts of the most recent American Crystallographic Associatio