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Reviewer response kit

Five templates for the analysis requests reviewers actually make, with the analysis each one requires and the wording that settles it. Free, no email required, modify as you like.

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Request 1

"QC thresholds appear arbitrary"

Answered with a sensitivity table, not an argument. Half a day of work. The method →

Request 2

"How do you know these are cell type X?"

Answered with a blind automated annotation compared cluster by cluster. What that looks like →

Request 3

"Batch effects not addressed"

Integrate, then prove you did not dissolve the biology. The checks →

Request 4

"Statistics are not appropriate"

The one that is usually right. Pseudobulk per subject, then a bulk method. On real data →

Request 5

"Add trajectory / communication"

Additive modules, framed as hypotheses rather than findings. A worked trajectory →

Checklist

Before you resubmit

Seven things reviewers check that authors forget — per-sample QC table, doublet rate, stated statistical unit, tool versions, deposited code.

Why we give this away

Most of these you can do yourself in a few days, and you should — it is your paper. We would rather be the people whose templates you used than the people who charged you to find out that pseudobulk exists. When a request genuinely needs work you do not have time for, we are here, with a fixed price and revisions included.

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