Oliver Hofmann

So many issues crammed into one story! Going to take some time to make sense of all that. - Neil Saunders

anyone else have trouble with the link? removing cookie=1 fixed it http://pubs.acs.org/action... - Mike Chelen

Link was OK for me, but those cookie URL params can cause problems. - Neil Saunders

And I refuse to fix them. Can someone summarize the article, or point to an abstract somewhere else? - Deepak Singh

More of a "news and views", so no abstract. It covers a lot of ground. In a nutshell - a research group reported mass spec identification of peptides from a T. rex fossil. Other groups were sceptical and wanted to see the raw data. With some cajoling, the data were deposited in the PRIDE database - but with caveats as to the usage (they claim ownership of the peptides). Cue a long debate about data deposition, licenses, restrictions, potential for scooping etc. etc. - Neil Saunders

Summary and comment thread here too: http://cenblog.org/2008... - Neil Saunders

Thanks. and consistent with my view of the proteomics community. I still find it completely astonishing, especially given how different the genomics community is, at least when it comes to sequence data. Is the argument one based on trying to get IP, or purely publishing? - Deepak Singh

Seems like mostly a push for IP in this case. - Neil Saunders

for T Rex? *shakes head* - Deepak Singh from IM

:-) bizarre, indeed - Neil Saunders

now I remember this. Salzberg and Pevzner cracked me up. Knowing Pavel, I can even picture him saying what he writes - Deepak Singh from IM

I'd send you a PDF, only there isn't one and all attempts to generate one are thwarted by ACS's bizarre URLs and broken HTML :-) - Neil Saunders