Journal
FEBS JOURNAL
Volume 283, Issue 24, Pages 4452-4457Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/febs.13765
Keywords
biomolecular crystallography; database integrity; error correction; structural databases; X-ray crystal structure models
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- Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) [P28395-B26]
- Intramural Research Program of the NIH, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research
- [U01-HG008424]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P28395] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
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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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