Where to publish a teaching paper

Dear All,

I am running a programming practical in a CS department with some students at the Master’s level. The students essentially re-implemented J. Huelsenbeck’s paper that tests all 200 someting possible time-reversible models (see http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/6/1123.full) but under Maximum Likelihood using our likelihood library.

Instead of having them write a report, I’d rather like to publish the availability of this little tool somewhere, with a focus on what was done and also on the teaching aspects.

Do you have any suggestions where this could be submitted?

Thank you,

Alexis

Hi Alexis,

This sounds like a really interesting paper. Though it seems like it could be too technical for an education-based journal and perhaps too much education for a research-based journal. In any case, if you’re interested in submitting it to an education journal, have you looked into “Evolution: Education & Outreach”? Otherwise, I wonder if you can make a case for it in Systematic Biology. Perhaps talk to one of the editors about any interest there in highlighting education.

Cheers! Tracy

Dear Tracy,

Thanks for the suggestion and merry Christmas from Athens,

Alexis