by Peter Nollert
December 7, 2010 01:42
This is the list of answers that I got today from a quick and informal survey that I conducted over 'lunch' with some of our crystallographers: 'what's been the best thing that happened in 2010 in the world of crystallization / crystallography?'
Here we go with the highly opinionated 'Best of 2010 in Protein Crystallography' (in no particular order):
These are my two personal favorites in the 'Best New Software' category: Mendeley (keeping track of ones research PDF collection) and new de-novo feature of the E-Wizard online crystallization screen generator. But where's the 'best 2010 protein crystallization iPhone app?'.
Not directly related to the field of protein crystallography, but this one could serve as an example for us crystallographers:
- The clever choice of the name for the bacteria that have phosphate exchanged by arsenate atoms. Strain GFAJ-1 stands for "Give Felisa A Job" (first author of the paper is Felisa Wolfe-Simon).
Happy 'last days of the decade without a name',
Peter