We are also holding discussions with the pharmaceutical world to determine their publication needs and standards for following up on disease-focused papers.
No consent for publication is needed.
For example, if your adviser is not allowing you to graduate until you submit four papers for publication, you need to find out if this is a standard for all students in the group or in the department.
Since the use of GeneChip probe sequences for deriving inter-platform overlap is currently prohibited by Affymetrix for publication purposes, we needed to rely upon public annotation to determine the overlap between products rather than more informative sequence-based comparisons.
No adjustment for publication bias was needed.
This is encapsulated in a piece of commentary published in Nature: "…negative findings are still a low priority for publication, so we need to find ways to make publishing them more attractive" (O'Hara, 2011).
The following comments need to be addressed in a revised submission before it can be considered for publication: 1) More detail needs to be provided about the selection criteria for the analysis conducted in this assessment.
You can request that your name be withheld for publication, but we may need to reach you for clarification, so please include your name and daytime contact information.
Grasp the importance of testing ideas against evidence, the need for publication, replication and open challenge, and the provisional nature of scientific discovery, and you are a large part of the way there.
