Revisions for Diagnostics manuscript

[agitter]

Revisions for Diagnostics manuscript

[nilswellhausen]

Hi everyone! Yes, I actually have the bandwidth to make two figures once we agree on what exactly we want to illustrate.

[agitter]

@rando2 @RLordan @cgreene we received reviews on the diagnostics manuscript almost a year ago. Because it gets harder to revise as time passes, should we decide what we'd like to do with this manuscript?

A few options come to mind:

• recruit new or existing collaborators to address the comments above and resubmit without changing the scope of the manuscript
• recruit new or existing collaborators to address the comments above and update the manuscript to account for major changes in the COVID-19 diagnostics landscape since April 2022
• decide to leave this as a preprint, optionally make any updates we feel like only in the Manubot version

Any other outcomes I'm missing?

[RLordan]

Hi @agitter, I'm on board to help. I think we can do option 2 without too much additional information needed. However, I am happy to go with general consensus. You are right though, it will get harder the longer we leave it.

[cbrueffer]

Thanks @agitter for the ping; I've been meaning to get back to this. Happy to contribute so we can get this out again! As to options you outlined, I agree with Ronan that 2 seems to most sensible; I think the scope is still fine, the content just needs updating.

[agitter]

@RLordan and @cbrueffer that's great to hear you are interested in helping and supportive of option 2. Looking at the reviewer comments above, do you think you have bandwidth and expertise to handle most of them? Otherwise I'd like to start rallying other new or existing contributors to help.

@rando2 I could help manage the general Manubot workflow and organize pull requests but don't feel well-qualified to review the scientific content here. If you are busy, we may be able to manage a lot of the revisions with me and 2-3 contributors who know the diagnostics material.

[cbrueffer]

Yes, I'll have bandwidth from late June onwards.

One of the reviewers mentioned adding more figures to highlight key aspects of the review; that would indeed be great and help is probably needed with that. Maybe @nilswellhausen is up this again if we agree on what exactly to do?

[RLordan]

Hi Gang, sure I can help out at weekends with this, also free more next week.

[rando2]

Hi everyone! I'm so sorry I haven't been seeing these, I got behind on my spam folder! I'm so excited to hear there is interest in getting these out. I am transitioning to a computer science role as of July 1, so biology will be taking a backseat in my life, but I would definitely be happy to help push things along to get these finished! Please tag me on any PRs you need reviewed, and I am more than happy to help with getting everything built and ready to ship out, since I've done that many times now!

[agitter]

I'm returning to this to see if we can make a plan to get started on the revisions. I'll have more time to help organize and review pull requests in August and a lot less once our fall semester begins.

Because @RLordan and @cbrueffer are our primarily volunteers, could the two of you please look at the numbered reviewer comments above and respond here with a list of the numbered comments you believe you could address? That will help us identify if there is a gap.

@nilswellhausen that is excellent you're willing to help with a figure. I'm not sure what we want to illustrate. If none of us have ideas, we could start by creating a new issue to brainstorm ideas and search for related figures for inspiration.

[RLordan]

I'm returning to this to see if we can make a plan to get started on the revisions. I'll have more time to help organize and review pull requests in August and a lot less once our fall semester begins.

Because @RLordan and @cbrueffer are our primarily volunteers, could the two of you please look at the numbered reviewer comments above and respond here with a list of the numbered comments you believe you could address? That will help us identify if there is a gap.

@nilswellhausen that is excellent you're willing to help with a figure. I'm not sure what we want to illustrate. If none of us have ideas, we could start by creating a new issue to brainstorm ideas and search for related figures for inspiration.

Will do this week, sorry for delay.

[cbrueffer]

Ditto, "slightly" behind schedule.