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ArticleStructural dynamics (Melville, N.Y.)2019

FACT and FAIR with Big Data allows objectivity in science: The view of crystallography.

John R Helliwell

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Article in Structural dynamics (Melville, N.Y.), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Powder diffraction data beyond the pattern: a practical review.Journal of applied crystallography · 2025
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  4. Journal of applied crystallography · 2023
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  6. Raw diffraction data are our ground truth from which all subsequent workflows develop.Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology · 2022
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  7. Review
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  9. Submission of structural biology data for review purposes.Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology · 2021
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  10. Submission of structural biology data for review purposes.Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications · 2021
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  15. Acta crystallographica. Section E, Crystallographic communications · 2020
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John R HelliwellDepartment of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0520-7540

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A publication is an important narrative of the work done and interpretations made by researchers securing a scientific discovery. As The Royal Society neatly states though, "Nullius in verba" ("Take nobody's word for it"), whereby the role of the underpinning data is paramount. Therefore, the objectivity that preserving that data within the article provides is due to readers being able to check the calculation decisions of the authors. But how to achieve full data archiving? This is the raw data archiving challenge, in size and need for correct metadata. Processed diffraction data and final derived molecular coordinates archiving in crystallography have achieved an exemplary state of the art relative to most fields. One can credit IUCr with developing exemplary peer review procedures, of narrative, underpinning structure factors and coordinate data and validation report, through its checkcif development and submission system introduced for Acta Cryst. C and subsequently developed for its other chemistry journals. The crystallographic databases likewise have achieved amazing success and sustainability these last 50 years or so. The wider science data scene is celebrating the FAIR data accord, namely, that data be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable [Wilkinson

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