[jcsites]

Totally agree.

[marcowanger]

I like that opening a lot and "SeqAnswers was founded" seems a much nicer fit.

Just done a quick edit of the SeqAnswers in google searches part to make it a little more succinct - word count now looks to be 346 approx.

done. Now it reads (The SEQanswers community (http://SEQanswers.com/) was founded )

[marcowanger]

incorporated you idea. Thanks.

After not having seen this for a bit, I am wondering about the flow between the first two paragraphs. The one starting with "We noted that HTS" and the one starting "We founded the SEQanswers community": is it meant to reflect a historical flow? we noted this, so we started seqanswers? If so, a little bit of rewriting would make this clearer.

There is two times 'rapid' in the second sentence.

Why not start like this:
"Rapid technological advancements in High throughput sequencing (HTS) have outpaced the speed of peer-reviewed publication and other traditional forms of information sharing in a burgeoning research field more and more becoming known for 'big data'. We founded SeqAnswers..." (or "SeqAnswers was founded...")

By now, that HTS enables new research is well know, or? Saves some words, too...

[marcowanger]

Do we have an approximate deadline?

ASAP once it's done.

[rglover]

Why not start like this:
"Rapid technological advancements in High throughput sequencing (HTS) have outpaced the speed of peer-reviewed publication and other traditional forms of information sharing in a burgeoning research field more and more becoming known for 'big data'. We founded SeqAnswers..." (or "SeqAnswers was founded...")

I like that opening a lot and "SeqAnswers was founded" seems a much nicer fit.

Just done a quick edit of the SeqAnswers in google searches part to make it a little more succinct - word count now looks to be 346 approx.

[maubp]

You could drop the "We reckon" at the start of paragraph 3. It's quite a casual couple of words and dropping it would make the "SEQanswers is uniquely positioned in the HTS field" more definitive and confident about the forum (plus drop 2 words from the count)

Absolutely. Done, and removed the repetition of "involved" in the next sentence.

And I fixed another bit of odd grammar and removed a little more redundancy.

[Joann]

distillation

Some thoughts on distilling the letter contents:
1. Most readers of Science already understand that HTS is out of the gate and thundering down the track.
2. By now it's a given that SEQanswers is and has been a key contributer--I have read countless thank-yous in posts. It is time to own the status.
3. There are a number of topics in the current trimmed letter that beg for even more elaboration but the route to this is full length articles. (students especially encouraged!) Covering these with just a few statistics does not do sufficient justice in introducing the forum to the general Science readership so these should be chosen wisely.

[flxlex]

After not having seen this for a bit, I am wondering about the flow between the first two paragraphs. The one starting with "We noted that HTS" and the one starting "We founded the SEQanswers community": is it meant to reflect a historical flow? we noted this, so we started seqanswers? If so, a little bit of rewriting would make this clearer.

There is two times 'rapid' in the second sentence.

Why not start like this:
"Rapid technological advancements in High throughput sequencing (HTS) have outpaced the speed of peer-reviewed publication and other traditional forms of information sharing in a burgeoning research field more and more becoming known for 'big data'. We founded SeqAnswers..." (or "SeqAnswers was founded...")

By now, that HTS enables new research is well know, or? Saves some words, too...

[rglover]

Soory to come up with the word count again, but it is currently 361 (without the comments), and some of ECO's parts are still missing. Anything we could get rid of without losing the main message?

You could drop the "We reckon" at the start of paragraph 3. It's quite a casual couple of words and dropping it would make the "SEQanswers is uniquely positioned in the HTS field" more definitive and confident about the forum (plus drop 2 words from the count)

[maubp]

Peter, as I have mentioned, I have emailed ECO for his future works on SEQanswers. Among all, some are relatively easier to do, including the invitation of bloggers and some others written in the current draft #1. As ECO has started contacting blogger, I assume this will be done soon, so I wrote it in the draft.

Oh OK - so its something happening now/soon. Thanks.

[Lilith-Elina]

Do you need someone for proofreading? I love proofreading.

[andreas.sjodin]

Do we have an approximate deadline?

[ulz_peter]

I bet you do!

[marcowanger]

Peter, dont worry, i will take care of it later

[ulz_peter]

Soory to come up with the word count again, but it is currently 361 (without the comments), and some of ECO's parts are still missing. Anything we could get rid of without losing the main message?