[Cod-bugs] Clarification of instructions for authors

[Antanas Vaitkus]

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing on behalf of the Crystallography Open Database (COD) which is
one of the repositories for X-Ray Crystallographic Data recommended by your
journal. Recently, an attempt was made to deposit a protein crystal
structure to our database; after a short exchange with the author it was
made clear that she was simply following the instructions provided on your
website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/crystals/instructions). Protein
crystal structures are out of the scope of the COD (as well as your other
recommended repository --  the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
(CCDC)) since the field is well covered by the Protein Data Bank (PDB).
Would it be possible to update your instructions to reflect that the
protein structures should indeed be deposited to the PDB?

Sincerely,
Antanas Vaitkus

-- 
Antanas Vaitkus,
PhD student at Vilnius University Institute of Biotechnology,
room V325, Saulėtekio al. 7,
LT-10257 Vilnius, Lithuania
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