Hi Robert, Hi All,

No, I didn’t receive any feedback.

I think it’s good to go (submit), and as Sal mentioned, can always still polish online stuff, and no need to wait.

Would also say to give Nat Meth a go, given we already have communication channel with Nina & she would be willing to look at seriously.

Regarding other reviewers outside BLS community. Can also I guess if you like suggest other OCE guys like Brendan.

All the best,

Kareem

From: "Sal La Cavera III (staff) via Software" <software@biobrillouin.org>
Reply to: "Sal La Cavera III (staff)" <Salvatore.LaCaveraIII@nottingham.ac.uk>
Date: Tuesday, 16. September 2025 at 16:09
To: Software Mailing list <software@biobrillouin.org>, Robert Prevedel <prevedel@embl.de>
Subject: [Software] Re: [EXTERN] Fwd: arXiv New submission -> 2509.07566 in physics.optics from robert.prevedel@gmail.com

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

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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
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0210-3102

Book a Coffee and Research chat with me!

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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

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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>
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Date: Wednesday, 10. September 2025 at 08:34
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Subject: [EXTERN] [Software] Fwd: arXiv New submission -> 2509.07566 in physics.optics from robert.prevedel@gmail.com

Just in time!!
Robert

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Title: A standardized file format and open-source analysis framework for
Brillouin microscopy data
Authors: Carlo Bevilacqua, Sebastian Hambura, Pierre Bouvet, Salvatore La
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Categories: physics.optics
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Brillouin microscopy is rapidly emerging as a powerful technique for imaging
the mechanical properties of biological specimens in a label-free, non-contact
manner. We present a standardized file format and open-source tools to
facilitate the uptake and analysis of Brillouin microscopy related data and to
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