Findable Accessible Interoperable Re-usable (FAIR) diffraction data are coming to protein crystallography

摘要

The unprecedented progress of modern science is driven, to a large extent, by the fast propagation of information. Descriptions of experiments and results, and their interpretation, are no longer disseminated solely in peer-reviewed scientific publications, but are frequently distributed through non-reviewed publication platforms as preprints, entries to data repositories, databases etc. As a result of ever faster computers and internet connections, many experimental results are now available instantaneously at the click of a mouse, irrespective of the location of the source or consumer.