Detect, correct, retract: How to manage incorrect structural models

FEBS Journal

Volumn 285, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 444-466

  Wlodawer, Alexander ^a   Dauter, Zbigniew ^b   Porebski, Przemyslaw J ^c   Minor, Wladek ^c   Stanfield, Robyn ^d   Jaskolski, Mariusz ^e,f   Pozharski, Edwin ^g,h   Weichenberger, Christian X ⁱ   Rupp, Bernhard ^i,j  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^f INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ K k Hofkristallamt   (United States)

^j INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

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Author keywords

electron density; error detection; evidence based scientific discovery; Protein Data Bank; structure validation

Indexed keywords

LIGAND; WATER;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DENSITY; ELECTRON; ELECTRON DENSITY; MACROMOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DATA BANK; PUBLICATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRUCTURAL MODEL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL ERROR; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DATABASE; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTAL ERROR;

EID: 85035216855     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/febs.14320     Document Type: Article

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