Hi Robert, Cover letter looks great, super minor edit to probably capitalize the F in 'following' in the intro sentence, but otherwise looks very strong / makes a good case for the broad importance of the work. Most of the people in the time domain community do measurements on solid state materials, and the ones that do have some crossover with biology probably have conflicts of interest re: reviewing this manuscript. I can recommend however: Samuel Raetz (Le Mans University, FR; samuel.raetz@univ-lemans.fr) Expert in time domain Brillouin scattering and its application to materials science. Happy for it to go to Nature Methods, especially given Nina's awareness of the project already, but also happy to go with what everyone else thinks. I reckon it's ready to send and things still on the software to-do list can be polished during/throughout the review process. Anything else just let me know, Best, Sal --------------------------------------------------------------- Salvatore La Cavera III Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow Nottingham Research Fellow Optics and Photonics Group University of Nottingham Email: salvatore.lacaveraiii@nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:salvatore.lacaveraiii@nottingham.ac.uk> ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0210-3102 [cid:4bc712ae-5798-416f-9c71-45cb8dfc4792]<https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/6a3f960a8e89429cb6fc693c01d10119@...> Book a Coffee and Research chat with me! ________________________________ From: Robert Prevedel via Software <software@biobrillouin.org> Sent: 16 September 2025 06:31 To: Software Mailing list <software@biobrillouin.org> Subject: [Software] Re: [EXTERN] Fwd: arXiv New submission -> 2509.07566 in physics.optics from robert.prevedel@gmail.com Dear all, just a short email to see whether anyone has received any feedback on our arXiv submission or whether anyone has been in touch about testing etc? Unfortunately it’s not possible to see how many times our preprint was accessed/downloaded on ArXiv (despite ChatGTP claiming it should be) @Carlo: Has JK been back with more detailed feedback on the paper? What are everybodies thoughts on journal submission, i.e. Nature Methods? Should we wait a bit more or just submit? Attached the latest cover letter draft with a few Reviewer suggestions outside the Brillouin field - feedback/input welcome. @Sal: Any suggestions on someone from the time-domain field? Looking forward to your thoughts and best wishes, Robert -- Dr. Robert Prevedel Group Leader and Senior Scientist Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit European Molecular Biology Laboratory Meyerhofstr. 1 69117 Heidelberg, Germany Phone: +49 6221 387-8722 Email: robert.prevedel@embl.de http://www.prevedel.embl.de On 10.09.2025, at 11:42, Kareem Elsayad via Software <software@biobrillouin.org> wrote: Great 😊 – thanks Robert!! From: Robert Prevedel via Software <software@biobrillouin.org<mailto:software@biobrillouin.org>> Reply to: Robert Prevedel <prevedel@embl.de<mailto:prevedel@embl.de>> Date: Wednesday, 10. September 2025 at 08:34 To: Software Mailing list <software@biobrillouin.org> Subject: [EXTERN] [Software] Fwd: arXiv New submission -> 2509.07566 in physics.optics from robert.prevedel@gmail.com Just in time!! Robert Begin forwarded message: From: e-prints@arxiv.org Date: 10. September 2025 at 02:06:19 WEST To: robert.prevedel@gmail.com Subject: arXiv New submission -> 2509.07566 in physics.optics from robert.prevedel@gmail.com Reply-To: help@arxiv.org Your submission submit/6776954 has been assigned the permanent arXiv identifier 2509.07566 and is available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07566 The paper password for this article is: e7xqa Please share this with your co-authors. They may use it to claim ownership. Abstract will appear in today's mailing as: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \\ arXiv:2509.07566 From: Robert Prevedel <robert.prevedel@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2025 10:07:44 GMT (1897kb) Title: A standardized file format and open-source analysis framework for Brillouin microscopy data Authors: Carlo Bevilacqua, Sebastian Hambura, Pierre Bouvet, Salvatore La Cavera III, Kareem Elsayad and Robert Prevedel Categories: physics.optics Comments: 19 pages incl. Supplementary Information License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ \\ Brillouin microscopy is rapidly emerging as a powerful technique for imaging the mechanical properties of biological specimens in a label-free, non-contact manner. 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