Where To Publish Wgs Annotation And Description Paper?

Question

[theacdlabs]

Dear Users,

We have sequenced, assembled, annotated, the genome of a sp. nov. bacterium using 454 and Illumina Hybrid Sequencing and submitted it to the NCBI GenBank. We have also annotated COG details. Apart from that, we have performed several wet lab works like whole VITEK Gen2, physiological tests, Transmission Electron Microscopy, MALDI-TOF, Gram Staining etc.

We were actually preparing for submission in Standards in Genomic Sciences (SIGS), but it turned out that the editors require money at the time of submission, and the money is not refunded even if the paper is not accepted , a risk that me and my institution is not willing to take.

So, here we are, with all those work done, time and money spent, paper written, and shelved!!!

Please suggest some other journal which accepts similar papers, maybe little more benchwork but at least accept what we have done so far.

Thanking you for reading so far.

Regards,

Aditya Singh

Answer 1

[sentausa]

You can try Genome Announcements from ASM, but I don't know anything about the money involved.

[Whetting]

it sounds like too much work was done for a two page report...Any of the other ASM journals would be better suited?

[theacdlabs]

Thank you sentausa for the reply but Whetting is right, we have some papers in GenomeA, it is only for announcing the sequence with little information about the assembly and features. We have much more data than that. I am looking into some Journals. People have suggested PLOS ONE and BMC Genomics, but I am not sure if they will accept a draft genome of bacterium with 128 contigs.

Answer 2

[Denise CS]

Great to know you have already submitted the sequence to GenBank (one of the sequence archives in addition to ENA and DDBJ). Once the data ends up in ENA, you may have the genome of this bacteria in Ensembl Bacteria, which will benefit many researchers. You may also want to consider submitting the MALDI-TOF data to PRIDE. In an era of open source and open data it's disappointing to hear editors requiring money at the time of a manuscript submission. I'd suggest having a look at F1000Research, Microbial Genomics and Genome Biology. If you are not sure if PLOS ONE and BMC will accept your work, you may want to consider getting the complete genome of this species.