Submission of Examples and/or Exercises

• the names of the authors remain associated with the Examples and Exercises. The authors have and keep the copy rights, but agree with the electronic publication of submissions on the web-site of Methods of Theoretical Biology, which has a free access.
• submissions are in electronic form only, emailed to the executing editor
• the files must be plain ascii with text coded in Latex
• submissions will be subjected to refereeing and only included if judged to be appropriate by the editorial board, after having consulted the referee reports. The judgement is on the basis of quality (in all respects), and of relevance to basic methods for graduate students. If we regularly receive high-quality submissions of (more) advanced methods, we could decide to compose a new document. We will keep such submissions in stock.
• an example should deal with quantitative aspects of some biological problem and have the following structure and contents:
  • statement and motivation of the biological problem
  • translation into a mathematical problem
  • solution of the mathematical problem
  • translation of the solution to the biological problem
  • references (optional)
  • area keywords for retrieval in the data base (see keys)
  • methods keywords for retrieval in the data base (see keys)
  • date
  • author + adress
  • list of files that are associated with the example
  An example-file should not exceed 10 kb.
• an exercise should deal, like an example, with quantitative aspect of some biological problem, or with a mathematical problem illustrating material in the method document. It should have the following structure
  • motivation (background of the problem; why is it nice or important?)
  • given (this can be data-sets, or circumstances)
  • question (i.e. statement of the problem)
  • hints (can be detailed, and pointing to a script file that can be used)
  • answer (to allow the student to check the solution)
  • references (optional)
  • area keywords for retrieval in the data base (see keys)
  • methods keywords for retrieval in the data base (see keys)
  • date
  • author + adress
  An exercise-file should not exceed 3 kb.
• the notation should follow the rules of the method document
• the material can refer to other publications (listed in a bib-file according to the rules of Latex documents), but the text must be self-explanatory, given the method document
• if mathematical theory is used that is not present in the method document, but can still considered to be basic, Latex text can be offered as suggestion of extension of the method document. Key words should accompany new material. The method document is meant to collect all methods for the examples and exercises. The editorial board decides about the inclusion of this material; if the material is used, auther is appended in the list of contributors.
• figures can be included, and should use eps-format
• the style should be concise, omitting all non-essential details
• the material might have been published elsewhere, but copyright problems must be avoided. References to more extended presentations can be included.
• Octave *.m files can be included which students can use to get interactive illustrations, or to automize computations. Implemented code in other freely downloadable languages can be negotiated
• the editorial board can
  • change the keyword classification
  • remove an example or exercise from the data base at any time

Editorial board: Bas Kooijman (executing editor), Bob Kooi, Jacques Bedaux, Cor Zonneveld.

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