Q:
I’m in need of one of your published articles:

Role of non-coding sequence variants in cancer
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg.2015.17

I will much appreciate if you could kindly send me a pdf copy of your published article for personal reading.

A:
see http://papers.gersteinlab.org/papers/nrgnccan/index.html

Q:
I saw your paper "Structuring supplemental materials in support of reproducibility" and appreciate your points. I would love to see a forum (like GATK’s forum or StackOverflow) where each topic for a conversation thread is a single published paper. Then everyone who is trying to replicate results could post their questions and authors their answers for all to see. I think this would be much better than the current closed system of emailing the authors. I would love to see a day when a link to a forum is provided on papers, rather than the authors’ email addresses.Who would have the ability to make something like this get started and catch on? Do you know if they are thinking about funding a platform for something like this at the NIH?

A:
with respect to "Who would have the ability to make something like this get started and catch on?"
maybe plos

with respect to "Do you know if they are thinking about funding a platform for something like this at the NIH?"
don’t know

Q:
I have been using the Genboree exceRpt workflow, and loving it! It has saved me so much time! Your paper got me on to it, and I would like to use one of the figures (1) of the exceRpt pipeline in my PhD thesis. Am I right to contact you to request permission? Or should I be heading to Cell for this?

A:
fine w/ me – just acknowledge us (see
https://sites.gersteinlab.org/permissions/)