On 2013 Jul 17, Jessie Tenenbaum commented:

A nice paper that raises some important points. I wonder about the composition of the readership of BB- seems like it's preaching to the choir in informatics- many known points. I wonder what % of readers are more on the biology side of things?

For that matter, for scientific literature more generally- in the pubmed era, where fewer journals are being read as bound paper versons, how do people come upon papers they decide to read? Scanning TOCs (how I came upon this one), references from other papers, pubmed searches for keywords or authors... Of those 3, only the middle option- bibliography from another paper- would seem likely to bring this paper to the attention of a non-informaticist.

On 2013 Jul 17, Jessie Tenenbaum commented:

A nice paper that raises some important points. I wonder about the composition of the readership of BB- seems like it's preaching to the choir in informatics- many known points. I wonder what % of readers are more on the biology side of things?

For that matter, for scientific literature more generally- in the pubmed era, where fewer journals are being read as bound paper versons, how do people come upon papers they decide to read? Scanning TOCs (how I came upon this one), references from other papers, pubmed searches for keywords or authors... Of those 3, only the middle option- bibliography from another paper- would seem likely to bring this paper to the attention of a non-informaticist.