Dear Sir/Madam,

I'm compiling, with the bioinformatics blogging community, a guide to open science. I believe one of the one of most important points on in this issue are journal editorial polices towards sharing and discussing research, prior to publication. Examples of this are Jean-Jean Claude Bradley's chemistry blog at http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/, or Rosie Redfield's blog at http://rrresearch.blogspot.com/. The use of preprint servers is becoming accepted, however the position of journals towards such of blogs and wikis to discuss results is less clear.

I am writing to ask for your policy regarding this. I would like to permission to include your reply in the finished guide. You can find wiki page for this at wiki.nodalpoint.org/open_science.