In poring over these submissions, we were struck by how routinely the Internet and smartphones are obliterating the geographical boundaries that used to define one's dating pool.
"We have been very careful over the years not to use the word murder as some people did," said Cindy Corrie, "and yet there in the final paragraph of the state's submission we are being attacked and accused of being untruthful".
"Following a DNA submission, we are now satisfied that the girl identified is not Madeleine McCann," said a spokeswoman for London's Metropolitan Police, according to the New Zealand Herald.
At time of submission, we are in the process of screening full texts for the review, and expect to start data extraction in April 2015.
In addition to the currently available methods of submission, we are developing an online wizard to allow our users an interactive online-guided submission process, which we hope will further encourage deposition of all available metadata by reducing the burden and suggesting the inclusion of data that may not have been considered relevant by the submitter.
At the time of submission we were not privy to these data, which may reflect either an increasing literature on the importance of NLR or alternatively a positive publication bias in retrospective series.
In the original submission, we were using the term 'clonal interference' to refer exclusively to interference caused by co-circulating beneficial mutants (as in the work by Gerrish and Lenski).
At present, metagenomic data associated with individual studies have been made available through traditional routes (EBI, NCBI submissions), but we are working towards explicit submission and analysis pipelines for these data, including downstream analyses such as genome assemblies and metabolic pathway reconstruction.
The deadline to submit applications to launch a startup at the event ended last week – and we had over 600 submissions that we are reviewing now.
Because of the number of submissions that we are receiving, we have recently expanded the Editorial Board by eight new members (alphabetically): John Archibald, Esther Betran, David Bryant, Richard Cordaux, Purification Lopez-Garcia, Judith Mank, Nancy Moran, and Yves van de Peer.
