http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/03/25/a_sign_a_flipped_structure_and_a_scientific_flameout_of_epic_proportions Comments for "A Sign, a Flipped Structure, and a Scientific Flameout of Epic Proportions" en http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/03/25/a_sign_a_flipped_structure_and_a_scientific_flameout_of_epic_proportions <p>One of the most spectacular flameouts in science happened last year. In a <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/314/5807/1875b">short letter</a> (barely over 300 words long) published in Science in the very last issue of 2006, Geoffrey Chang, a crystallographer, retracted 3 Science articles, a Nature article, a PNAS article and a JMB article. The sum of 5 years of work was destroyed, apparently, over a single sign error in a data-processing program. Read <a href="http://boscoh.com/protein/a-sign-a-flipped-structure-and-a-scientific-flameout-of-epic-proportions">more...</a></p> <br class="clear" /> http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/03/25/a_sign_a_flipped_structure_and_a_scientific_flameout_of_epic_proportions#comments Bioinformatics Bioethics and Regulations programming publishing papers testing Protein structure Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:01:35 -0400 bosco 2214 at http://www.nodalpoint.org