Three years ago while I was a postdoc in Halifax, I came up an idea the mid-step work worth spreading, so I draft the below essay. Don’t waste it: tidy up your bioinformatics work into appropriate publications.
Six months' later, I presented my ideas mid-step work promoting open science at the international stage (ISMB 2022 https://doi.org/10.7490/f1000research.1119047.1) awarded a conference participating waiver fund.
When it comes to year of 2024, I have owned some more publications in protocol format, I was aiming to submit the career story to Nature (career column section) to fight a chance for higher impact journal, but unfortunately, the idea was similar to a previous piece. (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03249-2)
After multiple attempts on the other journals (Science, EMBO, Frontiers etc.) and Magazines (Scientific American and University affairs), I still had no good luck there. So I asked myself whether or not my content was not suitable for the potential readers. Who shall really care about the message I was trying to convey. The story was a happy ending, I found a home best for that piece, I should give a big shout out to the editor. The final revision was completely different from the first version, which had been greatly improved in content and format. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666166725002795
But, the story has not ended yet, the process of fixing the career story piece is becoming very valuable experience for me. I am fortunate to have this one published, but I will be much careful for the next time finding the right journal with matched readers.
<Last updated by Xi Zhang on July 2nd, 2025>