Re: [Treebase-devel] publication?

[William P. <wil...@ya...>]

On Jan 25, 2010, at 5:39 AM, Rutger Vos wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:34 AM, William Piel <wil...@ya...> wrote:
>> 
>> On Jan 24, 2010, at 3:04 PM, Hilmar Lapp wrote:
>> 
>>> I suppose that would go into the Jan 2011 NAR database issue? I
>>> believe they accept submissions year-round now, though that needs to
>>> be double-checked
>> 
>> Yeah, NAR is an option. There is a database issue in January and a webserver issue in july. About 2-4 pages per article. Another option is the application notes in Bioinformatics -- but also quite short (perhaps shorter).
>> 
>> Maybe it makes sense to have one shorter "announcement" pub (in NAR or Bioinf, etc) and then separately something more focused and beefier elsewhere. e.g., Rutger, you could head-up an article on how to program with the API -- e.g., perhaps something similar to the well-used and oft-cited description of the NEXUS format that Swofford and the Maddison's published in Syst Bio. (for that kind of article, which is somewhat singular compared to the usual Sys Bio papers, we'd probably need a nod from the editor of Syst Bio ahead of time).
> 
> Perhaps as a manuscript that also introduces PhyloWS by example?

Yeah, that's what I had in mind. A "manual" to PhyloWS using TreeBASE API as the first implementation of it. 

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