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Acta Crystallographica Section F

Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications

An electronic journal for macromolecular structure

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principal categories of articles

• Structural genomics communications • Protein structure communications • Crystallization communications

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Crystallization Communications:For authors

• easy-to-use online submission and review system• all papers refereed to a high standard • very rapid publication • open-access option available for increased visibility• unlimited free color illustrations, movies and other enhancements• more generous limits on length

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Crystallization Communications:For readers

• FREE to Acta Cryst. D subscribers• accessible on the web as soon as ready• links to Protein Data Bank and other structural databases • full text, title, keyword, abstract/synopsis and author searching• articles in PDF and HTML

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features

• citation links to IUCr journals• Medline, CrossRef and ChemPort linking• immediate access to supplementary data• e-mail alerting service• labor-saving features

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Relationship to Section D

• Section F and Section D will together provide a full range of options for the rapid publication of structural biology and crystallization research

• Acta Cryst. D will continue to welcome novel biological structures and papers on crystallographic methods and theory, including crystallization

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submission guidelines

Notes for authors and full details of the online submission system are available from the journal homepage at

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Co-Editors

Marek Brzozowski Paula Fitzgerald Felix Frolow

Bill Hunter Gerard Kleywegt Pat Loll

Alex McPherson Marc Pusey Bill Stallings

Se Won Suh Isao Tanaka Tom Terwilliger

Alice Vrielink Adriana Zagari

Co-editors in bold specialize in crystallization communications

Section Editors

Mitchell Guss Howard Einspahr

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Required Data

• Sufficient disclosure to allow the reader to replicate the experiment and duplicate the result

• http://journals.iucr.org/f/services/structuralcommunications/list.html• http://journals.iucr.org/f/services/crystallization/

• Review of required data by editorial boards of Acta Cryst. D & F• Comments and suggestions welcomed

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What has been crystallized?

• Reference to sequence or database accession number

• Post-translational modifications or processing?

• Tag? Tag removal? Tag remnants?

• Chemical modifications?

• Brief recounting of preparation if referenced to prior publication

• Alternative for natural products

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Crystallization conditions

• Specify compositions of all crystallization solutions

[N.B.: This means the protein solution, too.]

• Specify relative volumes of solutions used

• Setup hardware, temperature, other variables as needed

• Similar requirements for cryo-preservation and cryo-treatment

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TRENDS

• Increasing expansion of crystallization communications to include data on structure solution

• Inclusion of papers supporting NMR structure determinations

• Growing interest in databases of crystallization conditions

IUCr journals will support the important contributions that any crystallization databases provide to the crystallographic community and to the scientific community as a whole.

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mmCIF Submission

• Special pathway for prospective structure-report authors in ADIT

• mmCIF file provided by PDB for transfer to journal

• Journal will arrange mmCIF data into tables

• Data missed can be added during editorial process

• Over time, more and more data for deposition and publication will be collected for authors by software and automation

• Authors will become more and more familiar with mmCIF and will build tools for their own use.

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Future Plans

• Enhanced referee system (speed, transparency)• NMR structure communications• Other enhancements• Author-driven evolution