It has been a while since we posted. That's largely because of the effort put into generating a paper. Check it out on BioRxiv.
This is actually my first experience publishing a preprint. After the preprint became public, my e-mail was bombarded with solicitations for publication, entirely by journals I'd never heard of. Only one was relevant to bioinformatics. With a couple exceptions, impact factors were quite low. One journal boasted a respectable 9.0 factor, but I found it odd that only a couple years prior the factor was sub-2.0. Presumably, one or two heavily cited articles changed the fate of this journal.
For the time being, I'm happy to leave the paper in an unpublished state. I was hoping for all-important constructive criticism, but have received nary a peep, either positive or negative. As the paper sits unpublished, I have, however, generated a lengthy list of self-critiques. When the paper satisfies me, that'll be the time to think seriously about the tedious task of submission for peer-review.
More blog posts forthcoming soon!
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