PLoS Currents is live (as of last week). Check out the blog posting by Harold Varmus:A new website for the rapid sharing of influenza research | Public Library of Science
I am very excited by this — it seems to be a new step on Open Science.
Author: Jonathan Eisen
I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis
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Yep, way to go! I am so excited about it too. I hope they start one for genomics/metagenomics soon.
I also think the PLoS submission process should be re-engineered. I feel it's more fit to the PLoS vision that all articles are submitted to one venue (PLoS-ALL) and then, after peer review, directed to the appropriate journal based on significance/impact. This will be better than having the submissions to the flagship PLoS journals redirected–without review–to another community journal or to PLoS ONE.
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Woo hoo! We submitted some GenGIS stuff not half an hour ago.
It's drawn quite an eclectic mix of paperlets from diverse people: epidemiologists, policy people, bioinformaticianicists, etc.
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It's already been accepted! Yay!
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thanks for letting us know about this. It is a great idea.
I also like the idea of sending a single MS to PLOS-all but would there be the necessary breadth of editors to properly pre-review? this seems to be a problem even at specialized journals like Plant Cell.
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Microbes – I agree that that vision is a good idea – but that is not necessarily what everyone wants to do. Some want to submit to just one plos journal. So perhaps there could be two tracks – journal specific and PLoS all — will suggest
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