Retractions and Fraud

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A number of PDB entries have been retracted, either due to fraud or honest mistakes.

  • 2012, February: 3k78 was removed from the PDB because it appears to be fraudlent[1][2].
  • 2009 and subsequently, several entries authored by H.M. Krishna Murthy were removed from the PDB as they appear to be fraudulent. These include

See the statement by the Worldwide PDB[3]


References

  1. Abbott A. Trial tests Austrian integrity body. Nature. 2012 May 1;485(7396):15. doi: 10.1038/485015a. PMID:22552066 doi:10.1038/485015a
  2. Protein structure retracted after investigation into “highly improbable features,” journal calls it fraud, April 2012
  3. wwPDB Statement on Retraction of PDB Entries.

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