[Taxacom] dissapearing data

[John Grehan]

My thanks to Alex and also Brent for directing me to the sources. Most
appreciated! I am grossly ignorant of this field of molecular data
storage. I was able to open the file, but it does not have the data
aligned between all the taxa. I suppose there is a simple way of doing
that which is familiar to those working with molecular data, but I will
have to do it laboriously by hand.

John Grehan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: M. Alexander Smith [mailto:salex at uoguelph.ca]
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 12:35 PM
> To: John Grehan
> Cc: TAXACOM
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] dissapearing data
> 
> http://molevol.cmima.csic.es/castresana/publications.html
> http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol18/issue4/index.dtl
> 
> Long term archiving of websites and supplementary data are hardly a
> problem unique to molecular biology.
> 
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> M. Alex Smith PhD
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Grehan" <jgrehan at sciencebuff.org>
> To: "TAXACOM" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> Sent: Friday, November 7, 2008 12:14:32 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
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> Subject: [Taxacom] dissapearing data
> 
> Here's where things are getting tricky with accessing original
molecular
> data. I just tried to access the aligned data used for Castresana
(2001)
> Mol. Biol. Evol. 18, 465-471. Two web sites were given:
> http://www.molbiolevol.org <http://www.molbiolevol.org/>  and
> http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/!castresa Neither page worked, and the
> authors email address on the article did not work either. I would be
> surprised if a morphological systematist could publish analyses based
of
> character descriptions that were just posted on web pages and then
might
> eventually disappear like this. If ephemeral web sourcing of molecular
> data becomes widespread then there is the danger of independent
> testability of original data being impossible, and once that happens
the
> matter is no longer science.
> 
> 
> 
> John Grehan
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