[Vp-integration-subgroup] [Vp-reproduce-subgroup] Shayn Peirce-Cottler via Frontiers: Manuscript

Thu Nov 18 22:22:07 PST 2021

Thanks John, Hi James Faedar,

John, with your approval below we only need James Faedar to respond so I
can proceed.

Can someone contact him to make sure he saw this correspondence? He
should receive these messages, yet if someone is in contact with him
regularly, please ask him to respond so we can move on.

One last thing before submission. If there is anyone who thinks this paper
should not be published, I would ask them to write to this mailing list
publicly - if there is any error or omission that anyone thinks is
important, we want to know about it before submitting the article. This
request is public and not targeted at the authors - if there is
something we missed, we want to know it before submission.

Hopefully James Feedar will respond quickly and there will be no public
objection and we can get this paper published quickly.

              Jacob

On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 4:34 PM John Rice <john.rice at noboxes.org> wrote:

> I approve submission.
>
> Typed with two thumbs on my iPhone.  (757) 318-0671
>
> “Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour,
> Rains from the sky a meteoric shower
> Of facts . . . they lie unquestioned, uncombined.
> Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill
> Is daily spun; but there exists no loom
> To weave it into fabric.”
>
> –Edna St. Vincent Millay,
>
>
>
> On Nov 17, 2021, at 22:04, Jacob Barhak <jacob.barhak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi James Faedar, Hi John Rice,
>
> Please check the manuscript and declare by REPLY ALL if you APPROVE,
> DISAPPROVE or ABSTAIN.
>
> James, if you responded and I did not get the email, I apologize - there
> are some communication hiccups occasionally. Yet I need your public
> approval to proceed and use your name.
>
> John, I know you allowed us to send the paper, yet you need to be specific
> and declare if you want to be included as an Author or just moved to
> acknowledgements. You did have a major contribution, so I hope you will
> APPROVE.
>
> Once I have your answer I can proceed. Hopefully you will both APPROVE
> quickly.
>
>                Jacob
>
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 3:02 PM sheriff <sheriff at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jacob and all,
>>
>> I approve the submission of the manuscript.
>>
>> Please update the citation Tiwari et 2020 Preprint to
>>
>> Tiwari K, Kananathan S, Roberts MG, Meyer JP, Sharif Shohan MU, Xavier A,
>> Maire M, Zyoud A, Men J, Ng S, Nguyen TVN, Glont M, Hermjakob H,
>> Malik-Sheriff RS. Reproducibility in systems biology modelling. Mol Syst
>> Biol. 2021 Feb;17(2):e9982. doi: 10.15252/msb.20209982. PMID: 33620773;
>> PMCID: PMC7901289.
>>
>> Also my name and affiliation below
>>
>> Rahuman S. Malik Sheriff
>>
>> European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute
>> (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
>>
>>
>> Thanks for pushing this work forward
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Sheriff
>>
>>
>> On 2021-11-17 18:58, Jonathan Karr wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jacob,
>>
>> Thank you again for spearheading this effort.
>>
>> I approve the submission. I think the paper organizes a variety of
>> important issues toward more credible models, and the content is sound.
>>
>> My affiliation is Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn
>> School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
>>
>> As others have mentioned, I think the paper would be more impactful with
>> further editing to make the paper easier to read:
>>
>>    - More clearly articulate the goals/motivation for more credible
>>    models
>>    - Be more concise and focused
>>    - Remove redundancies by grouping related text
>>    - Fill in the gaps in logic in the introduction with more
>>    transitions, less extraneous information, and/or a brief outline.
>>    - Change the title of the "Utility of models" section to something
>>    like "Challenges with using multiscale models" (James' suggestion)
>>    - Order the "Utility of models" subsections to be easier to follow,
>>    perhaps from model construction through to reuse
>>    - Rephrase the titles of the  "Utility of models" subsections to
>>    focus on opportunities for improvement rather than current problems
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jonathan
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 11:25 PM Jacob Barhak <jacob.barhak at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks to all contributors who answered,
>>
>> Most contributors approved by now.
>>
>> James and Wiliam, I am not sure how many more revisions there will be for
>> this publication. I did not add several important references of my own in
>> this revision. Frankly I wanted to keep reference changes to a minimum and
>> kept it as close as possible to the origin . However, we are transferring
>> the paper to the publisher under CC license, so it will not be hard to
>> create another derived version with all sorts of additions and
>> modifications in the future where people can edit it as they see fit and
>> add whatever references they want - so after it gets published you can
>> continue working on other versions as you see fit. For now I ask we focus
>> on publishing this version alone and I really hope the editors will not put
>> us through another revision round since it makes no sense at this point -
>> any change is not substantial compared to what we have already and any
>> delay is more damaging than productive.
>>
>> To be productive I ask that the following people who did not answer so
>> far take the time to APPROVE, DISAPPROVE, or ABSTAIN.:
>> Robin Thompson
>> James R. Faeder
>> Jonathan Karr
>> Rahuman Sheriff
>> John Rice
>>
>> John Rice - thanks for your support, yet you will have to be specific:
>> You can either choose APPROVE or ABSTAIN - both of these options will move
>> the paper forwards. APPROVE will add your name to the list of authors with
>> all responsibilities and privileges listed or implied , ABSTAIN will put
>> you in acknowledgements without any obligation. So John, please choose if
>> you want your name on the paper or not in this specific version - any
>> decision you make will be ok.
>>
>> I hope we can father all support quickly so I can move forward and submit
>> the paper.
>>
>>                       Jacob
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 5:46 AM William Waites <wwaites at ieee.org> wrote:
>>
>> I'm just chasing down references for use in another context and I notice
>> that the Ke et al paper is still a pre-print after more than a year. There
>> is no problem in my opinion citing preprints but it is suspect in this
>> case: there's been a ton of work on SARS-CoV-2 infectiousness, why didn't
>> this get published? Probably not best to rely on it as an example of
>> practice. Perhaps to fix on revision.
>>
>> -w
>>
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