[reporter]

I just uploaded three articles in the last two weeks to BioRxiv. The papers were previously just sitting in review. I have already received several emails thanking and informing me that my work is influencing the manuscripts they are writing - more citations. Overall the experience has been an extremely positive experience for me. I don't really see any downsides. So excited for the revolution.

[dnautics]

the amazing thing is that arXiv has always had a "quantitative bio" section, and I guess it took a sea change for this to be come a thing in bio.

[michaelhoffman]

It's a social problem, not a technical one. The main new features bioRxiv has are comments and digital object identifiers (DOIs).

[jessriedel]

At least originally, I believe bioArxiv's raison d'etre was to give biologists more assistance in producing professionally typeset documents (since far fewer of them know LaTeX then physicists). Not sure that's still true.