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On the evolution of the quality of macromolecular models in the PDB
Dariusz Brzezinski1,2,3,4, Zbigniew Dauter5, Wladek Minor4
1Center for Biocrystallographic Research, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland.
Abstract:
Crystallographic models of biological macromolecules have been ranked using the quality criteria associated with them in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). The outcomes of this quality analysis have been correlated with time and with the journals that published papers based on those models. The results show that the overall quality of PDB structures has substantially improved over the last ten years, but this period of progress was preceded by several years of stagnation or even depression. Moreover, the study shows that the historically observed negative correlation between journal impact and the quality of structural models presented therein seems to disappear as time progresses.
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