Re: [Now.DCB] Fwd: TCBB-2015-07-0312.R3 - Decision: Accept as Regular Paper

[Biji CL]

Dear all

​The saying is quite true for our case.  This is indeed a very sweet victory after a long trial, above all realisation of a dream of getting a paper in IEEE Transaction-  top among Engineering communities.  I am soooooooooo happy to share my experience

When I started my research way back in 2012, as that of every young researcher, I do dreamt about  getting the research work being published in a reputed journal.  But then I have no clue about how to proceed with quality work and its reporting.  I am greatly indebted to my mentor  for all the good values he inculcated to me on these research days. The first streamlining of research happened after a major research discussion on 22/12/2012.  Achu sir gave an idea about how to proceed with the research activities and advised me to keep a mind map. The following mind map was an integral part for my research. That always reminded me about the focus and the outcomes of my research.  Let me tell you, the potential of Mind mapping is the first thing I learnt from my Mentor. 

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​Second thing, I have learnt is on Technical writing. Writing complement the research a lot. I have exchanged countless draft with my mentor. When I started off the paper writing, I was never confident ! Approximately 20  versions we had to come across before submission our first draft on July 2015 to IEEE. ​ I have all the hard copies of the different versions . It was quite amazing to see the transformation of paper from a 1 page draft to a full paper! 

​It was Achu sir, who kindled me the interest to compile a benchmark dataset for testing the performance of compression tools. Constant discussion and draft exchange is the mantra behind our success . No , matter what happens we never lost track in our discussion.

 As most of you are aware, since 2014 there were many health related issues in my family and I have personal loss too! JESUS,was always the strength for me to stand ! 

 Trillion thanks to god almighty for his divine guidance through out these days!

​I can never forget the kind support and encouragement from my beloved teacher, Achu sir----Whose passion and dedication towards teaching is far beyond words ! His painstaking attention to all the major and  minor details of the paper helped to improve its quality. 

During  October 2015, we received the first major revision. Nearly 5  more different draft we exchanged for the major revision . With lot of happiness and effort uploaded the paper back . But during November 2015 we were very cruelly been rejected  based on a single reviewer comments.

Forget

 to mention, in between we came across a strange case of reviewer Plagiarism  too! This was also reported with Achu sir's intervention 

But then Achu sir fighted very hardly  with the chief editor  and whole chapter reopened for yet another submission. We got three more months  for doing the next major revision, This time the response of reviewer were so critical and I have lost my confidence!  After doing  preliminary works, we consulted with Kalyanaraman sir (Retd  statistical professor, kerala university )  and he firmly suggested a few improvements. This timely help gave lot of hope for us and  during April 2016 we were able to address all their comments and submitted back the revised paper.  

On May 2016, we received  a minor revision (typo's need to be corrected), we then had a first hope that we were almost near to publication and finally on MAY 6th the long waited news reached my ears that OUR PAPER IS ACCEPTED by IEEE. I do not know how to express my joy, right now! It's true we are literally showered :-)))))))))

Thank you my dear DCB-ians for all the  Kind support. I especially would like to thank Navya, Silpa, Deepthi, Shidi, Sunitha, Renganayaki , Priya das & Vineetha for all their support at various level of my research! 

PS: I would like to thank Jasmine Russel, Manu, Jithin, Arya, Neenu and Shima for all the technical support ! Jasmine, it was you gave me a first level information about different organisms and their kingdom. Thank you for that :-))

Playing with 1000's of data is never easy. Initially Manu, then Jithin then Arya & Neenu finally Shima supported me with the painstaking tabulation and its proof reading ! Thank you for all the valuable support :-)) 

 

 

 

Regards,

 

Biji C.L,

Research Scholar,

Department of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics

University of Kerala,

Kariavattom.

"When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope"-Wangari Maathai

On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 10:58 PM, Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair <sankar...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear All
I am so pleased and proud to announce a rare achievement - the first
paper from DCB in IEEE Transactions - from Biji -- after a long winded
fight with the editors. It is the top-most journal in Engineering and
we had many times failed to get a paper through.
I feel very excited.
Hearty congrats to Biji
:-)))
Achu

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From: jar...@computer.org
Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 12:02:05 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: TCBB-2015-07-0312.R3 - Decision: Accept as Regular Paper
To: biji...@gmail.com, sankar...@gmail.com
Cc: jar...@computer.org

RE: TCBB-2015-07-0312.R3, “Benchmark dataset for Whole Genome sequence
compression”
Manuscript Type: Regular Paper

06-May-2016

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[Biji CL]

thank you all :-))

 

 

Regards,

 

Biji C.L,

Research Scholar,

Department of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics

University of Kerala,

Kariavattom.

"When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope"-Wangari Maathai

[Deepthi Varughese]

Many congrats Biji chechy.

After long way of struggle and waiting you finally made it come to you. I am so happy for you on this great achievement. First IEEE paper in the history of DCB is yet another mark you made. All your hard work and sincerity paid off.
Congrats to all authors :-))

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Deepthi Varughese

Research Scholar
Department of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, 

University of Kerala

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