STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY:
A Plan to Release Data Within Six Months
Eliot Marshall
AIRLIE HOUSE, VIRGINIA--Last week, international leaders of the field of structural biology rejected a proposal that labs now gearing up to roboticize the study of proteins give away structural coordinates immediately, or within 3 weeks of completion. Instead, at a meeting at an estate here in Virginia's horse country, they agreed to speed up data release, but on a timetable that will allow for the filing of patent applications.