[3dem] sharing em maps during peer-review process

[Edward Egelman]

Hi,
   First, let me say that I was not the reviewer! Second, I recently 
spoke at an NIH workshop on reproducibility in structural biology:
http://wals.od.nih.gov/reproducibility/
and making maps and models available to reviewers BEFORE publication, 
and not AFTER, was one of my recommendations. I gave several examples of 
papers in high profile journals that would never have been published had 
reviewers actually compared the maps and models during review. I do not 
understand the basis for the paranoia.
Regards,
Ed

On 4/30/15 4:19 PM, Friedrich Foerster wrote:
> dear colleagues,
>
> i would be interested in experiences / suggestions / views of others 
> in the field on  the following issue that may be of interest to many 
> of us:
> the editor of our manuscript forwarded the request of a peer-reviewer 
> to access the cryo-em map of our beloved complex. this has never 
> happened to us, but to our surprise the editor did not consider the 
> request to be unusual.
> of course, we share the point that the map would be of great help in 
> judging the interpretation of the data. however, we also feel very 
> uncomfortable sending the condensed result of lengthy research to an 
> anonymous colleague, who could theoretically make considerable misuse 
> of it. nevertheless, the policy of the journal seems to let us little 
> choice: "Supporting data must be made available to editors and 
> peer-reviewers at the time ofsubmission for the purposes of evaluating 
> the manuscript.Peer-reviewersmay be askedto comment on the terms of 
> access to materials, methods and/or data sets".
> in any case we would be curious whether others indeed got similar 
> requests and how they dealt with it. a good solution for (paranoid?) 
> people like us could be a good web-based viewer that lets others view 
> our map, but i would not know of such a tool.
>
> Thanks
>
> Friedrich
>
> -- 
> Dr. Friedrich Foerster
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University of Virginia

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