title: Crystallographic raw data, education and refereeing.
abstract: This article provides an overview of the preservation of raw diffraction data, then addresses the impact on future plans in the education and training of our community with respect to raw diffraction data and its potential reuse, and, thirdly presents the issue of referee access to the underpinning diffraction data and coordinates, as well as the Protein Data Bank Validation Report, in the review process of structural biology articles submitted for publication. Overall I pay tribute to the scientific achievements of Alex Wlodawer, who is also an ardent advocate of the importance of experimental data.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: John R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Helliwell
mesh_terms: D003461:Crystallography / Q000379:methods*; D030562:Databases, Protein; D012107:Research Design
keywords: archiving of raw diffraction data; combined training and education in biological and chemical crystallography; education initiatives for the Open Science era; neutron macromolecular crystallography; refereeing of articles together with diffraction data and coordinates; synchrotron radiation macromolecular crystallography