[MOBY-dev] Urgent re-request

[Mark Wilkinson]

>> if nothing happens, why don't you just post the missing authors here,
>> and we share the affiliation finding work?


Okay, that's a good idea.  I'll compile what I have and then put the rest  
of them out to the community for help.

I'm still struggling with writing a response to this review.  There are a  
few valid points where we clearly missed talking about some issue or  
another, but most of it is... very very odd!  I find myself writing and  
re-writing paragraphs trying to understand what the question is, and  
eventually find myself simply copy/pasting quotes out of the manuscript  
itself!  Case in point - the reviewer asks for a concrete example of  
BioMoby passing a legacy data-type, in a comment where they refer to the  
paragraph about the object ontology.  Well... in that EXACT paragraph  
there is not only a concrete example in the text of that paragraph (EMBL),  
but there is also a reference to a figure where the concrete XML for an  
EMBL object is written-out longhand!

I am not usually defensive when I get reviews, but this one has me  
completely baffled!  I simply don't understand what the reviewer is  
asking/expecting us to change...   I don't suppose it is sufficient to say  
"in response to your comments and questions, please read the manuscript  
again"  ;-) ;-)  I am, however, tempted to ask PLoS ONE to try harder to  
get a second reviewer, since I don't think this reviewer represents our  
intended target-audience... (and being reviewed by one person isn't really  
a robust review, in my opinion)

Anyway, I'm going to try to have a polite and attentive response finished  
by Wednesday to send out to you all for comment.

Cheers!

M





On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:20:36 -0700, Pieter Neerincx  
<Pieter.Neerincx at wur.nl> wrote:

>
> On 9-Jul-2007, at 11:42 AM, Björn Usadel wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>
> Good plan. In large parts of Europe the summer holiday periods have
> started so some of the authors missing might be unplugged for a while...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pi
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Björn
>>
>> mark wilkinson wrote:
>>> So far I have only 5 responses from the ~40 "authors" on the paper.
>>>
>>> I need your affiliation information ASAP please!!!
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Mark
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