Most of you probably heard about the recent retraction of some 12 structures (1BEF, 1CMW, 1DF9/2QID, 1G40, 1G44, 1L6L, 2OU1, 1RID, 1Y8E, 2A01, and 2HR0) from the PDB. Reported first by The University of Alabama at Birmingham and follwing by structural biology blogs as p212121 and ByteSizeBio - also known as "Structuregate". One question that arises is - was this preventable?

