Yeah it's been a while since my last entry, but in my defence, my thinkpad died and I simultaneously got back the reviewers comments from my submitted manuscript.
Although my boss was a tad disappointed, I'm quite pleased. I have to say that writing this post is kinda strange, are my reviewers out there reading my daily diatribes? Should I censure myself?
And so ... all I will say about the comments is that I spent the last month collecting data to bolster the key findings of my paper - mostly control experiments, but it looks like the reviewers believe the main concept and did not ask for any of the things I thought they would ask. Instead, the main sticky point (for reviewer #2) is whether the process that I uncovered plays a significant role in mRNA export of endogenous genes. Yes that sentence is murky, but I don't want to give too much away. In any case, the reviewer suggested a simple and obvious experiment, except that the result (which I've done indirectly) turns out to be ... complicated. I'll have to think about how to approach this.
OK that's all I will say for now ...