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
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
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
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