The scam debunked !

In the end, it was Eric Fauman who blew the whistle.

But first So Iwata reported a tremendous success of the program:

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From:   SMTP%"o-info@kaktus.imsb.au.dk"
Subj:   RE: Phase problem solved !!!
From:   IWATA@xray.bmc.uu.se

It's just amazing. Using the program APRIL, we have been already solved 
the structure of a protein complex (MW480kDa) using just two defferent 
crystal forms (three independent mols/assym). And we are going to submit 
the paper today! If you don't believe that, look, Janos and Rams are 
checking the manuscript now (only for Uppsala people).

Thanks Gerard!

So 

I had to explain the hardware situation in Uppsala to outsiders:

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From:   XRAY::GERARD       "Gerard 'CD' Kleywegt"
Subj:   RE: Phase problem solved !!!

>Thanks Gerard!
you're welcome - it's all in a day's work

for the non-Uppsala people: So solved his structure
on a single-processor ZX-81
I just learned that there is a 379-processor
massively parallel ZX-81 on the market
as well - this would reduce the turn-around
time for an APRIL job to about 5 seconds
(or was that decades ?)

people have started asking for other versions
of APRIL as well; I am working on Atari 400,
Apple I and PDP-8 (assembly code) versions,
and requests have come in for Amiga and TRS-80.
While I'm at it: anyone still using BBC-1s ?

--gerard

The first dark cloud on the horizon was the following mail:

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From:   SMTP%"paehler@atlas.rc.m-kagaku.co.jp"
Subj:   Re:  Phase problem solved !!!
From:   Arno PAHLER 

Too little, too late - Microsoft yesterday announced in a secret press
release that April-98, successor to the vastly successful April-97,
will not only come with a user-definable choice of phases (acentric
phases as an upgrade option), but also with a complimentary version of
Microsoft Speechless'00(*), the voice version of the well-known standard
product, that, in the parallelized version, can generate simultaneous
outputs for Cell, JMB, Nature, PNAS and Science plus a tape for Gordon
conferences - rumors that Linus Torvalds was hired as CEO, to push
this promising product to market, have however been vehemently denied.

(*) The Y2K bug-fix version will be released as soon as possible,
    no later than April 1, 2099.

Arno Paehler
Unauthorized Spokesperson for Megaschrott Enterprises

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From:   XRAY::GERARD       "Gerard 'CD' Kleywegt"
Subj:   Re:  Phase problem solved !!!

hahaha
i mean: damn ! does this mean they're not interested
in acquiring the Uppsala Software Factory for a
modest sum (plus 100,000,000 MS stock options) ?

there goes my plan for early retirement !

i guess i'll have write yet another brilliant
program then ... hmm, perhaps i can solve
the protein folding problem (would make April-98
obsolete instantly !) - give me 365 days, okay ?

--gerard

But with Fauman's first mail the excrement started to move in the direction of the rapidly rotating air transportation device:

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From:   SMTP%"fauman@biop.umich.edu"
Subj:   APRIL (release 1)
From:   Eric Fauman 

Gerard,
 
    I tried your beta-test version of APRIL (release 1)
on one of my structures.  It gave beautiful phasing statistics,
but when I looked at the maps, they were of lysozyme, not
my protein!  So while it looks like you have solved the
phase problem for lysozyme, I think the solution to the general 
phase problem remains elusive.
 
Good luck!
-Eric

I tried to control the damage by blaming the user:

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From:   XRAY::GERARD       "Gerard 'CD' Kleywegt"
Subj:   RE: APRIL (release 1)

that's probably due to a bug which makes that all
phase arrays are initialised with the lysozyme values
are you sure you crystallised the correct protein, by the way ???
if so, could you send me a copy of the output ?
--gerard

But to no avail ...

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From:   SMTP%"fauman@biop.umich.edu"
Subj:   RE: APRIL (release 1)
From:   Eric Fauman 

After getting your email, I double checked that I had the correct 
protein crystallized by running SDS-PAGE, CD, Mass Spec and activity
assays on the crystals, and all confirmed that I had my 401 amino
acid fragment of a gag-binding protein.

I'm not sure I gathered all the output from the program.  Here's
what I could find.  Hope it helps!
-Eric


 *** APRIL *** APRIL *** APRIL *** APRIL *** APRIL *** APRIL *** 

 Version  - 980401/1.0
 (C) 1998 Gerard J. Kleywegt

 Started  - Wed Apr 1 12:00:00 1998
 User     - fauman
 Mode     - batch
 Host     - zoe
 ProcID   - 26041
 Tty      - /dev/ttyq1

APRIL>

CELL 79.259 79.259 37.914 90.0 90.0 90.0
RESOLUTION OVERALL 200.0 1.50
SYMMETRY P43212

   symmetry=( x,     y,     z)
   symmetry=(-x,    -y,     z+1/2)
   symmetry=(-y+1/2, x+1/2, z+3/4)
   symmetry=( y+1/2,-x+1/2, z+1/4)
   symmetry=(-x+1/2, y+1/2,-z+3/4)
   symmetry=( x+1/2,-y+1/2,-z+1/4)
   symmetry=( y    , x    ,-z    )
   symmetry=(-y    ,-x    ,-z+1/2)


*******************************************************************
 list Harker Vectors for top 10 sites from cross scan
 less than ten sites are found the program will reset
  the upper limit to use all sites found
*******************************************************************

     >> mode = HARKER
     >>   0.4062  1.0000  0.1641       (solution   1)
     >>   0.1562  1.0000  0.1641       (solution  13)
     >>   0.2969  0.3839  0.1094       (solution  25)
     >>   0.2500  0.7500  0.0859       (solution  29)
     >>   0.1094  1.0000  0.0000       (solution  33)
     >>   0.3906  0.4911  0.0547       (solution  45)
     >>   0.8906  0.0000  0.0547       (solution  61)
     >>   0.7500  0.2500  0.0000       (solution  69)
     >>   0.8906  0.5000  0.1094       (solution  79)
     >>   0.6719  0.4911  0.0781       (solution  91)
     >> HARKER LIST >>

SOLUTION FOUND!!!

 #####  #######    #    #######   ###    #####  #######   ###    #####   #####
#     #    #      # #      #       #    #     #    #       #    #     # #     #
#          #     #   #     #       #    #          #       #    #       #
 #####     #    #     #    #       #     #####     #       #    #        #####
      #    #    #######    #       #          #    #       #    #             #
#     #    #    #     #    #       #    #     #    #       #    #     # #     #
 #####     #    #     #    #      ###    #####     #      ###    #####   #####


 $$ <4SSQ/LL>
 Resolution(Angstroms)
 Number_acentric_reflections
 Isomorphous_difference_acentric
 Lack_of_closure_acentric
 Phasing_power_acentric
 Cullis_R_acentric(?<1.0)
 Number_centric_reflections
 Isomorphous_difference_centric
 Lack_of_closure_centric
 Phasing_power_centric
 Cullis_R_centric(?<1.0) $$
 <4SSQ/LL>  Resol   Nref_a DISO_a LOC_a PhP_a CullR_a Nref_c DISO_c LOC_cPhP_c CullR_c
 $$
   0.020     7.06     157   76.1   25.1 5.53   0.33      70   98.2   30.6 4.50 0.31
   0.047     4.62     551   76.4   35.4 3.46   0.46     153   88.1   40.2 2.84 0.46
   0.085     3.43    1145   74.6   46.7 2.17   0.63     241   91.3   50.1 1.81 0.55
   0.134     2.73    2033   63.8   40.8 1.97   0.64     339   73.9   45.8 1.68 0.62
   0.195     2.26    3070   48.0   31.6 1.95   0.66     389   59.8   36.6 1.60 0.61
   0.267     1.94    4075   39.6   28.7 1.58   0.73     416   49.6   32.4 1.25 0.65
   0.350     1.69    5481   28.0   19.0 1.73   0.68     444   32.4   22.9 1.27 0.71
   0.444     1.50    6149   16.7   12.4 1.81   0.74     461   19.4   14.5 1.33 0.75
  $$ 
   TOTAL            22661   36.8   24.5 1.91   0.67    2513   53.6   32.0 1.70 0.60

Overall FOM: CENTRIC 0.81481 NON-CENTRIC 0.90028 TOTAL 0.89025

DERIVED PHASES:

Reflection list:
 NREFlection=     19612
     12    0    0  45883.700  180.000
     14    0    0  12532.700  180.000
     16    0    0  68340.400  180.000
     18    0    0  71638.600  180.000
     20    0    0  50335.100    0.000
     22    0    0   3737.000  180.000
     24    0    0  34044.800  180.000
...Abbreviated...
     26    1   22   1132.000  249.543
     22   14   22   1258.700  303.518
     20    9   23    963.700  348.835
     19   11   23    864.000  131.353
     16   15   23   1425.200  163.532


Cycle   SFALL   RSTATS          FFT     
 Nr     RelInd  Rover   CCover  Sigma   
=====   ======  ======  ======  ======  
1       0.6699  0.594   0.508   3.07438

Cycle   SFALL   RSTATS          FFT    
 Nr     RelInd  Rover   CCover  Sigma  
=====   ======  ======  ======  ====== 
25      0.4037  0.366   0.852   2.71815


 *** APRIL *** APRIL *** APRIL *** APRIL *** APRIL *** APRIL *** 

 Version - 980113/5.4
 Started - Wed Apr 1 12:00:00 1998
 Stopped - Wed Apr 1 12:18:23 1998

 CPU-time taken :
 User    -    401.0 Sys    -    401.0 Total   -    401.0

 *** APRIL *** APRIL *** APRIL *** APRIL *** APRIL *** APRIL *** 

 >>>>>> This program: (C) 1998, GJ Kleywegt <<<<<<
 >>>>>>> E-mail: gerard@xray.bmc.uu.se  <<<<<<<<<<
 *** APRIL *** APRIL *** APRIL *** APRIL *** APRIL *** APRIL *** 

STOP ... Toodle pip ... statement executed

This is when I gave up.

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From:   XRAY::GERARD       "Gerard 'CD' Kleywegt"
Subj:   RE: APRIL (release 1)

hmm, very strange - it all looks okay to me
on the bright side: it took only 401 cpu seconds
to arrive at the wrong solution !
compare that to SHARP + SOLOMON + O + XPLOR + O + XPLOR + AUTODEP !!!!!
--gerard

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From:   SMTP%"fauman@biop.umich.edu"
Subj:   April v.1
From:   Eric Fauman 

That's true.  I suppose we could start trying to
solve structures by process of elimination -
first figure out everything the protein is not.
--Eric

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From:   XRAY::GERARD       "Gerard 'CD' Kleywegt"
Subj:   RE: April v.1

i could write a csh script to do that !
--gerard

On April 2, 1998, I decided that a retraction was the ethical thing to do under the circumstances, and the following message was sent to the CCP4 and O-INFO bulletin boards:

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From:   XRAY::GERARD       "Gerard 'CD' Kleywegt"
Subj:   OOPS ... (Was: "Phase problem Solved !!!")

The Uppsala Software factory wishes it to be known
that phase problem has not been solved quite yet.
Eric Fauman detected a bug in the APRIL program
(announced here yesterday), the effect of which
was that, no matter what the input, the result
was always lysozyme phases.  (We have therefore
donated the APRIL source code to Brian Matthews'
lab since they may be interested in further
development of the program.)

For a full account of this story, including dozens
of reactions from fellow crystallographers, AND
the output of APRIL that Fauman presented as proof
of the bug can be found on the web at URL:

http://alpha2.bmc.uu.se/usf/april_new.html

The Board of Directors of the Uppsala Software
Factory wishes to apologise for any inconvenience
their actions may have caused.  The company's
CEO has been fired and will not be allowed
anywhere near a keyboard in the future.
Over the next 364 days, all our efforts will
go into the development of our new program
that calculates the 3D structure of a protein,
given its amino-acid sequence !

Sincerely,

Sir Clive Sinclair
President and interim CEO
Uppsala Software Factory

Some other reactions

A selection of some of the other reactions:

Many people reminisced over their long-lost ZX-81s (see also above) ...

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From:   SMTP%"dyda@ulti.niddk.nih.gov"
Subj:   ZX-81
From:   Dyda 

Gerard,

you are funny.
Actually I was trying to get the ZX-81 version, this was the first
processor of my life, and I still think the best. Ab-initio phasing
would be just a thrill on it.

                                        Fred

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From:   SMTP%"tdoukov@unlgrad1.unl.edu"
Subj:   April
From:   Tzanko Doukov 

Good one Gerard! Congrats!

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From:   SMTP%"darren@biop.ox.ac.uk"
Subj:   You're slipping

*grin* not bad, but a bit slow . . . everyone in this area of the world has
already had about 30-40 of these thrown at them. I would have though that
00:00:01 GMT would have been the best time to post? ;-)

Anyway, I claim first access, unless your counter is bust. Thanks for the fun.

-Darren

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From:   SMTP%"A.Elwell@udcf.gla.ac.uk"
Subj:   Re: Phase problem solved !!!
From:   "Andrew Elwell" 

damn, Just as I thought i'd found something other than netscape to run on my 
ZX81... (check your weblogs for user_agent at 130.209.221.197.)

:-) 
--
Andrew Elwell    E-Mail: A.Elwell@udcf.gla.ac.uk Mobile: 0966 279286
Division of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology,    Maclay Hall, 18 Park Terrace
IBLS, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ    Glasgow G3 6BX
Tel: 0141 330 6459, Fax: 0141 330 4620           T:0141 353 5679 F:0141 353 5671
HomePage: http://www.enzyme.gla.ac.uk/~andrew/
--
Thought for the day:
  I don't have a solution but I admire the problem.

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From:   SMTP%"j.murray-rust@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk"
Subj:   super-phasingx
From:   Judith Murray-Rust 

Liked it.....
But G, its too late!!! didn't get here till 13.50 ........and all our
structures for today are already solved.

Local UK rules, at least where I grew up, are that the "fool" is only
valid if perpetrated before noon! Other wise something *awful* happens
to the fool-er. You have been warned........
-- 
      * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Judith Murray-Rust             
http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/~ubcg09j/home.html
Crystallography Department      FAX 0171 631 6803
Birkbeck College                ubcg09j@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk
LONDON WC1E 7HX.

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From:   SMTP%"mowbray@alpha2.bmc.uu.se"
Subj:   Re: Phase problem solved !!!
From: mowbray@alpha2.bmc.uu.se (Sherry Mowbray)

I was just telling Aaron that people around here were too busy for April
Fools. Does something awful happen if you go to that web page?

Sherry Mowbray
Swedish Agricultural University

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From:   SMTP%"mowbray@alpha2.bmc.uu.se"
Subj:
From: mowbray@alpha2.bmc.uu.se (Sherry Mowbray)

Hi, I decide you wouldn't actually do anything nasty, so I went and looked.
The number said 55. Did that mean my mailer is really slow, or that it took
you 54 loads to get it to blink :-) !
S/

Sherry Mowbray
Swedish Agricultural University

After the following mail hit the O-INFO bulletin board, a colleague (himself German !) remarked "yeah, trust a German to spoil a good joke" ...

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From:   SMTP%"o-info@kaktus.imsb.au.dk"
Subj:   Re: Phase problem solved !!!
From:   Jens Heese 

> Executables of APRIL (release 1) are available for
> SGI, OSF1, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, and ZX-81. The
> program is CCP4-compatible.  It requires at least two

Since no other 'USF' tools are available as
linux exes one can safely assume this is an
April fools joke.

Cheers

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From:   SMTP%"segelke1@llnl.gov"
Subj:   Re: Phase problem solved !!!
From:   Brent Segelke 

You guys there at Uppsala have a hell of a sense of humor eh?  De Novo
Phasing on April 1st--this could be submitted to the ignoble prize committee.
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From:   SMTP%"lizp@yorvic.york.ac.uk"
Subj:   Re: Phase problem solved !!!
From:   Liz Potterton 

Gerard,

I was considering putting out alpha test version of CCP4 Interface (at least
gets us into eary 20th C I think) but delayed to more auspicious date.

Thanks for brightening the day.

Liz

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From:   SMTP%"CHARLES.LESBURG@spcorp.com"
Subj:   bravo!
From:   CHARLES.LESBURG@spcorp.com (CHARLES LESBURG)

Gerard,

I'm sure you realize that nobody would have believed it except for the reference
to Gerard Bricogne.  All of the sudden, anything is possible.

I hope everything is going well.

-Chip

---------------------------------------------------

Charles A. Lesburg, Ph.D.
Schering-Plough Research Institute
K-15-B112C/1800                                            TEL: (908) 298-3515
2015 Galloping Hill Road                                   FAX: (908) 298-7545
Kenilworth, NJ  07033                       E-MAIL: Charles.Lesburg@spcorp.com

Gullible's travels

Some of the almost 300 domains from which the APRIL page was accessed:

1. 128.253.219.20
2. 129.64.32.147
3. 129.64.32.202
4. 130.238.37.251
5. 130.239.193.185
6. 130.69.122.64
7. 130.87.173.49
8. 131.152.112.39
9. 133.1.169.231
10. 133.50.21.56
11. 134.68.57.17
12. 140.109.32.202
13. 146.203.4.30
14. 150.146.1.8
15. 160.103.107.8
16. 160.103.2.152
17. 200.136.164.44
18. 202.54.37.18
19. 203.255.24.128
20. 207.135.78.97
21. acara.csb.ki.se
22. acs1.wustl.edu
23. adrenaline.berkeley.edu
24. afmb72.cnrs-mrs.fr
25. alf1.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
26. alf2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
27. alice.bmc.uu.se
28. alpha2.bmc.uu.se
29. alpha8.bioc.cam.ac.uk
30. alphy.roca.csic.es
31. amino.usask.ca
32. angel.niams.nih.gov
33. apty.sci.hokudai.ac.jp
34. asio.molbio.su.se
35. aztec.chemistry.mcmaster.ca
36. badbart.wustl.edu
37. banquo.imb-jena.de
38. basfegw2.basf-ag.de
39. batman.depauw.edu
40. bcl4.biochem.uga.edu
41. bcl9.biochem.uga.edu
42. bdvpc1.rug.ac.be
43. berigw.beri.co.jp
44. bernal.biochem.ubc.ca
45. bigfoot.chem.upenn.edu
46. billmo.biosci.arizona.edu
47. bio14.chemie.uni-freiburg.de
48. biocisis.unizh.ch
49. biomaster.uio.no
50. blagny.u-strasbg.fr
51. bluejay.bioc.aecom.yu.edu
52. bmbsgi15.leeds.ac.uk
53. bmbsgi17.leeds.ac.uk
54. boadicea.phys.unsw.edu.au
55. bolan.bioc.le.ac.uk
56. bonzai.crchul.ulaval.ca
57. bossa-nova.cnb.uam.es
58. bragg.bioz.unibas.ch
59. bragg.bmb.psu.edu
60. bragg.chem.cornell.edu
61. bragg.ifqsc.sc.usp.br
62. bravais.bri.nrc.ca
63. bsmir14.biochem.ucl.ac.uk
64. butthead.embl-hamburg.de
65. cache1.serveurs-nationaux.jussieu.fr
66. california.bio.purdue.edu
67. calliope.swmed.edu
68. camier.ibs.fr
69. capri.biop.ox.ac.uk
70. ccp4e.dl.ac.uk
71. centris.bmc.uu.se
72. chaucer.life.uiuc.edu
73. chem-tdoukov.unl.edu
74. chem28.colorado.edu
75. chemac168.ucdavis.edu
76. chex8.ex.ac.uk
77. chop.swmed.edu
78. chpc-jhn-3.st-and.ac.uk
79. coconut028045.nuts.nwu.edu
80. cookie.biop.umich.edu
81. cpc.mel.dbe.csiro.au
82. crash.wwwcache.ja.net
83. cressida.imb-jena.de
84. crissy.ucsf.edu
85. crusty.lsb.sbs.auckland.ac.nz
86. crystal.icgeb.trieste.it
87. csc-a1592.mgh.harvard.edu
88. d124b-labtop.stanford.edu
89. dc-air.med.umn.edu
90. dc-elf.med.umn.edu
91. dialin-107.dialin.unibas.ch
92. djinn-open.gene.com
93. dorothy.ifqsc.sc.usp.br
94. dynapro.cshl.org
95. eagle.glasnet.ru
96. echo.med.harvard.edu
97. eden.bioc.cam.ac.uk
98. eel.biochem.mpg.de
99. elqana.saclay.cea.fr
100. elroy.qci.bioch.bcm.tmc.edu
101. eurogate.pfizer.co.uk
102. f1n3.u.arizona.edu
103. fedmac2.dl.ac.uk
104. fermat.mc.duke.edu
105. ff380.hh.ri.ccf.org
106. firewall.esrf.fr
107. ganymede.nrtg.com
108. gate.ggr.co.uk
109. gatekeeper.astra.com
110. genie-open.gene.com
111. glu.sb.fsu.edu
112. glutamate.bio.cornell.edu
113. glycine.bio.cornell.edu
114. godot.ibs.fr
115. gold.isbdd.vcu.edu
116. green.niaid.nih.gov
117. greenock-bank.clyde.net.uk
118. groucho.med.jhmi.edu
119. gutemine.uni-muenster.de
120. h9bsd5054.aist-nara.ac.jp
121. haemo.scripps.edu
122. hasson.bio.purdue.edu
123. hecate.rai.kcl.ac.uk
124. helix.bchs.uh.edu
125. hemebase.bio.uci.edu
126. hermes.biomol.uci.edu
127. hewes.icl.ox.ac.uk
128. hg.pharm.nwu.edu
129. hirta.bioc.cam.ac.uk
130. hmt5.hitachi.co.jp
131. host-207-53-9-204.rdu.bellsouth.net
132. huldra.uninett.no
133. idefix.ebi.ac.uk
134. igate.ascc.net
135. igw-se.pnu.com
136. igw3.merck.com
137. inca.chemistry.mcmaster.ca
138. indigo1.bio.uci.edu
139. indigo12.mc.vanderbilt.edu
140. indy2.cryst.bbk.ac.uk
141. infosun-fd.rus.uni-stuttgart.de
142. interlock.pprd.abbott.com
143. iris6.biochem.mcw.edu
144. its-www1.massey.ac.nz
145. jackdaw.embl-heidelberg.de
146. jade.cmc.uab.edu
147. jade.dfci.harvard.edu
148. jake.embl-hamburg.de
149. jeckle.med.harvard.edu
150. jess.bath.ac.uk
151. jinky.bioch.dundee.ac.uk
152. jkindigo5.rockefeller.edu
153. jm2310.livjm.ac.uk
154. juliet.med.jhmi.edu
155. jurancon.mbb.ki.se
156. kakerlak.biochem.mpg.de
157. kirti.cshl.org
158. laue.bioz.unibas.ch
159. lbmo2.ibs.fr
160. lccphp1.ibs.fr
161. leda.nagaokaut.ac.jp
162. lithium.biophys.mpg.de
163. lmb.biop.ox.ac.uk
164. loyal.bch.ed.ac.uk
165. lynx.chem.ou.edu
166. macbeth.imb-jena.de
167. mackinn-pc3.rockefeller.edu
168. mailgate.celltech.co.uk
169. malone.ibs.fr
170. manu100.manu.com
171. map-pc.nrl.navy.mil
172. marin7.bc.ic.ac.uk
173. marqusee9.berkeley.edu
174. mars.esrf.fr
175. mcb44.mcb.ucdavis.edu
176. mcbi-46.med.nyu.edu
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Conclusion

What can we learn from this ? If nothing else, at least that there are protein crystallographers with a sense of humour !

As to the question of how outlandish the purported method for solving the phase problem is - not all that much, I suppose. But it will take someone a lot cleverer than I to do it ;-)

Little known crystallographic fact: Eric Fauman's mother wears a moustache !