# How an Independent Researcher Got the SkewDB Paper Published

DevFeed: [How an Independent Researcher Got the SkewDB Paper Published](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/a-science-experiment-published-36241.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-science-experiment-got-published/>)

Published: 2022-01-25T12:50:28Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Bert Hubert's writings](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/bert-hubert-s-writings.md>)

Topics: [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [data-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-processing.md>)

Tags: [academic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/academic.md>), [advice](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/advice.md>), [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [dna](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dna.md>), [paper](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/paper.md>), [publication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/publication.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>)

## AI overview

An independent researcher describes how a series of blog posts led to the acceptance of the SkewDB paper by Nature Scientific Data. The article shares practical advice on journal selection, preprints, public data and software, reproducibility, manuscript preparation, and reviewer responses.

## Source excerpt

And we're back! As noted in part 1 and part 2 I thought it might be possible that I had discovered something interesting in biology. Lacking an academic peer group, I had decided to use a series of blog posts to gather feedback and to keep myself honest. I'm very pleased to report that this process worked! I just received word that Nature Scientific Data has formally accepted my paper "SkewDB, a comprehensive database of GC and 10 other skews for over 30,000 chromosomes and plasmids" for publication!