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About publBio

publBio offers you tools to prepare the text, experimental data tables, and figures for a structural biology or crystallization communication, along with personal web space in which to use them.

Your personal web space gives you the freedom to use these tools to whatever extent suits you, ranging from simply obtaining a document 'template' for completion using a word processor and submission in the conventional manner, to preparing your entire paper 'online' and then submitting on the click of a button.

However you use it, we hope that publBio will make preparation of your paper a little easier:

• With or without a starting data source, the tools for experimental data tables should ensure that your paper contains the items appropriate for submission.
• A growing number of data resources and validation procedures should help to ensure that your data are presented according to current standards.
• Use of established formatting routines should relieve some of the tedium of trying to conform to journal style.
• Use of your personal web space should provide 'added value': you will be able to build up your own data resources for use in future projects (e.g. easy access to databases of names and addresses, standard laboratory protocols, instrumentation, etc., for inclusion in new papers).
• By exploiting publBio to the full, you will be able to avoid the time-consuming process of re-entering data at the point of submission, and realise the benefits of preparing your paper using an application tailored to online submission.

Hopefully, you will find that the route from laboratory data to publication becomes more streamlined through the use of publBio.