ArticleThe FEBS journal2016
Correcting the record of structural publications requires joint effort of the community and journal editors.
Article in The FEBS journal, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.
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- On the evolution of the quality of macromolecular models in the PDB.The FEBS journal · 2020Article
- The Integrated Resource for Reproducibility in Macromolecular Crystallography: Experiences of the first four years.Structural dynamics (Melville, N.Y.) · 2019Article
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- Molstack-Interactive visualization tool for presentation, interpretation, and validation of macromolecules and electron density maps.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2018Article
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Abstract
Seriously flawed and even fictional models of biomolecular crystal structures, although rare, still persist in the record of structural repositories and databases. The ensuing problems of database contamination and persistence of publications based on incorrect structure models must be effectively addressed. The burden cannot be simply left to the critical voices who take the effort to contribute dissenting comments that are mostly ignored. The entire structural biology community, and particularly the journal editors who exercise significant power in this respect, must engage in a constructive dialog lest structural biology lose its credibility as an evidence-based empirical science.
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