# When is the data publishable?

**URL:** <https://ask.bioexcel.eu/t/when-is-the-data-publishable/2311>\
**Category:** HADDOCK\
**Created:** [July 7, 2020, 3:19am UTC](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/t/when-is-the-data-publishable/2311 "2020-07-07T03:19:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![jgibson\_rpi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@jgibson\_rpi](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/u/jgibson_rpi)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 3:19am UTC](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/t/when-is-the-data-publishable/2311/1 "2020-07-07T03:19:13Z")

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How do you decide when your data is publishable? When there is enough convergence?

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**Author:** ![amjjbonvin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/ask.bioexcel.eu/amjjbonvin/32/23_2.png) [@amjjbonvin](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/u/amjjbonvin)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 8:11am UTC](https://ask.bioexcel.eu/t/when-is-the-data-publishable/2311/2 "2020-07-07T08:11:17Z")

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Well - that’s more a general research question than only a HADDOCK question…

Importantly you should have some independent way of validating your models. E.g. are there known mutations? What about conservation or residue at the interface? …

Any software will give you a model. Be critical!