University of Glasgow

Roderic Page

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[Nature precedings](http://precedings.nature.com/) is pre-publication
server launched by Nature a few months ago. To quote from the website:  

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Unable to resist, I\'ve uploaded three manuscripts previously
languishing as \"[Technical
Reports\"](http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/publications/tech-reports/index.html)
on my old server. The three I uploaded now have bright shiny DOIs, which
may take a little while to register with CrossRef. The manuscripts
are:  
  
**Treemap Versus BPA (Again): A Response to Dowling**
[doi:10.1038/npre.2007.1030.1](http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2007.1030.1)
(a response to a critique of my ancient TreeMap program).  
  
**On The Dangers Of Aligning RNA Sequences Using \"Conserved\" Motifs**
[doi:10.1038/npre.2007.1029.1](http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2007.1029.1)
(a short note on [Hickson *et al.*\'s
(2000)](http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/17/4/530) use
of conserved motifs to evaulate RNA alignment).  
  
**Towards a Taxonomically Intelligent Phylogenetic Database**
[doi:10.1038/npre.2007.1028.1](http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2007.1028.1)
(a paper written for [DBiBD 2005](http://dbibd-05.inf.ed.ac.uk/),
basically a rewrite of a grant proposal).  
  
All three are under the [evolution and
ecology](http://precedings.nature.com/subjects/evolution-and-ecology)
subject heading. Visitors to [Nature
precedings](http://precedings.nature.com/) can comment on papers, and
vote for which ones they like. The fact that I\'ve uploaded some
manuscripts probably says nothing good about me, but I\'ll be checking
every so often to see if anybody has anything to say\...


Nature precedings is pre-publication server launched by Nature a few months ago. To quote from the website:  Unable to resist, I've uploaded three manuscripts previously languishing as "Technical Reports" on my old server. The three I uploaded now have bright shiny DOIs, which may take a little while to register with CrossRef.

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