Manuscript decision - minor revisions

[emhart]

Below is the reply from the editor:

Dear Dr Hart,

Thank you very much for submitting your manuscript, 'Ten Simple Rules for Digital Data Storage', to PLOS Computational Biology. As with all papers submitted to the journal, yours was fully evaluated by the PLOS Computational Biology editorial team, and in this case, by independent peer reviewers. The reviewers appreciated the attention to an important topic but identified some aspects of the manuscript that should be improved.

We would therefore like to ask you to modify the manuscript according to the review recommendations before we can consider your manuscript for acceptance. Your revisions should address the specific points made by each reviewer and we encourage you to respond to particular issues raised.

In addition, when you are ready to resubmit, please be prepared to provide the following: (1) A detailed list of your responses to the review comments and the changes you have made in the manuscript. We require a file of this nature before your manuscript is passed back to the editors. (2) A copy of your manuscript with the changes highlighted (encouraged). We encourage authors, if possible to show clearly where changes have been made to their manuscript e.g. by highlighting text. (3) PLOS offers a figure-checking tool, PACE (http://pace.apexcovantage.com/), to help authors to ensure all figures meet PLOS requirements so that the quality of published figures is as high as possible. Please use this tool to help you format your figures. PACE is a digital diagnostic and conversion tool for figure files. It will provide information about any failed check(s) and, if able, will automatically convert the figure file into an acceptable file that passes quality checks. PACE requires you to register for an account to ensure your figure files are processed securely. (4) A striking still image to accompany your article (optional). If the image is judged to be suitable by the editors, it may be featured on our website and might be chosen as the issue image for that month. These square, high-quality images should be accompanied by a short caption. Please note as well that there should be no copyright restrictions on the use of the image, so that it can be published under the Open-Access license and be subject only to appropriate attribution.

Before you resubmit your manuscript, please consult our Submission Checklist to ensure your manuscript is formatted correctly for PLOS Computational Biology: http://www.ploscompbiol.org/static/checklist.action. Some key points to remember are:

• Figures uploaded separately as TIFF or EPS files (if you wish, your figures may remain in your main manuscript file in addition).
• Supporting Information uploaded as separate files, titled 'Dataset', 'Figure', 'Table', 'Text', 'Protocol', 'Audio', or 'Video'.
• Funding information in the 'Financial Disclosure' box in the online system.

We hope to receive your revised manuscript within the next 30 days. If you anticipate any delay in its return, we ask that you let us know the expected resubmission date by email at ploscompbiol@plos.org.

If you have any questions or concerns while you make these revisions, please let us know.

Sincerely,

Scott Markel, Ph.D. Associate Editor PLOS Computational Biology

[emhart]

In case anyone wants to see, a screenshot from the editorial system.

[emhart]

Closing because paper is in production.