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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Electron Microscopy Community,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The <i>Biophysical Journal</i> (BJ) and the <i>Biophysical Society
</i>leadership recently published a joint Editorial entitled “<a href="http://www.cell.com/biophysj/abstract/S0006-3495%2815%2900230-1">Reproducibility of Research in Biophysics</a>”, which introduced a comprehensive and evolving set of “<a href="http://www.cell.com/pb/assets/raw/journals/society/biophysj/PDFs/reproducibility-guidelines.pdf">Guidelines
for the Reproducibility of Biophysics Research</a>”. These Guidelines are designed to require enough detail and transparency to ensure that research results can be replicated and reused. Part of these guidelines reinforce and enhance our long-standing policy
that atomic models be deposited in the PDB. Our Editorial prompted some members of the Structural Biology Community to raise a concern that authors occasionally refer to a structure in the PDB without properly citing the original published source that reported
the structure. Accordingly, BJ has added the following explicit policy to its <a href="http://www.cell.com/pb/assets/raw/journals/society/biophysj/PDFs/author-guidelines.pdf">
Author Guidelines</a>:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Manuscripts that refer to information in a public database (such as structures in the RCSB Protein Data Bank) must cite the publication, if available, in which the original information was reported.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Les Loew<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Editor in Chief, <i>Biophysical Journal</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">PS. Submissions are open for the BJ Special Issue, edited by Ed Egelman and Andreas Engel, on
<a href="http://www.cell.com/pb/assets/raw/journals/society/biophysj/PDFs/electron-cryomicroscopy.pdf">
Electron Cryomicroscopy</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#1F497D">—</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Leslie M. Loew</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Boehringer Ingelheim Chair in Cell Sciences</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Professor of Cell Biology</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Professor of Computer Science and Engineering</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Director, R. D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Editor in Chief, Biophysical Journal</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">University of Connecticut Health Center</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">400 Farmington Avenue</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Farmington, CT 06030-6406</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">(860)679-3568</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:les@volt.uchc.edu%3cmailto:les@volt.uchc.edu"><span style="color:purple">les@volt.uchc.edu<mailto:les@volt.uchc.edu</span></a>></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">CCAM: <a href="http://www.ccam.uchc.edu/"><span style="color:purple">www.ccam.uchc.edu</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Virtual Cell: </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><a href="http://www.vcell.org/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:purple">www.vcell.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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