Collaboration is key to modern science, with major advances using multiple complementary approaches and dependent on sophisticated infrastructure. Yet science is also highly personal, as each person carves out a reputation and career. How does this work out in reality, and how can communities be built to benefit science and scientists?
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The author is grateful to the many members of the CCP4, CCP-EM and other communities for inspiring conversations over the years. The author currently receives support from the UK Medical Research Council for the “Collaborative Computational Project for Electron cryo-Microscopy (CCP-EM): 2021 – 2026” (grant no. MR/V000403/1), as well as from CCP4 and STFC.
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Winn, M.D. Communities in structural biology. Nat Struct Mol Biol 31, 6–7 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41594-023-01197-z
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