Broadening the scope ofActa Crystallographica Section C

Acta Crystallographica Section C in 2012.

Acta Crystallographica Section C was pleased to be able to publish its first virtual special issue at the beginning of December, 2011. The issue focussed on polymorphism (http://

Chemistry and structure in Acta Crystallographica Section C.

Review panel for Acta Crystallographica Section F

When Acta Crystallographica Section F was being established in 2004, one of the principal goals was for it to take advantage of its online and other attributes to provide rapid processing of articles and minimize the time from submission to publication. One of the early ideas for accelerating article processing was championed by former Section Editor Mitchell Guss: enrolling a panel of experien...

Broadening the Scope of Nanopublications

In this paper, we present an approach for extending the existing concept of nanopublications — tiny entities of scientific results in RDF representation — to broaden their application range. The proposed extension uses English sentences to represent informal and underspecified scientific claims. These sentences follow a syntactic and semantic scheme that we call AIDA (Atomic, Independent, Decla...

Laboratory Communications in Acta Crystallographica Section F

EMBL Hamburg Outstation, c/o DESY, Notkestrasse 85, D-22603 Hamburg, Germany, and PO Box 6395, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-0395, USA The last year has seen a number of enhancements to our still very young journal, Acta Cryst. F. There was, for instance, the introduction of a tool for creating interactive figures (Einspahr & Guss, 2008b) which can then be included in journal articles. The first Acta...