[Picante-devel] New developer and manuscript plans

[Steven Kembel]

Hi Matt,

> Do we want to start with an outline being passed around?

Sounds like a good idea. I will draw up an outline and circulate.

> Do you have a target journal in mind? Is it the same journal that  
> Steve wrote his phylocom article? Would NESCent perhaps pay for open  
> access since Peter and I were funded through them/Google this  
> summer... perhaps Hilmar would know? Would we include examples of  
> all the functions or just highlight some functions?

I was thinking Bioinformatics would be a good target journal but I'm  
open to suggestions. There are open-access journals such as BMC  
Bioinformatics that would be suitable as well. I am not sure if  
NESCent has support for open access publication costs. Bioinformatics  
has no page charges but does have a pay-to-publish option to make the  
article open access IIRC. We published a Phylocom application note  
there, here is the link to get an idea of the format:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btn358

The length limit for application notes is quite short so I think the  
best approach is not to give a general overview of the kinds of  
analyses the package can do, maybe highlight one or two functions.

Cheers,
Steve