Title is boring?

[jeromekelleher]

The title currently is "Population-scale Ancestral Recombination Graphs with tskit 1.0", which is descriptive if a bit dull. I didn't spend long thinking about it, and very much open to something better.

Any ideas?

[mufernando]

FYI It seems they have a set formula for Correspondence titles. From the last few issues:

NimbusImage: a cloud-computing platform for image analysis
inTRACKtive: a web-based tool for interactive cell tracking visualization
Translon: a single term for translated regions
MRIcroGL: voxel-based visualization for neuroimaging

[jeromekelleher]

That's helpful, thanks @mufernando . So following this formula it would be:

Tskit: population-scale Ancestral Recombination Graphs

Thoughts?

[bhaller]

It looks like "inTRACKtive" was able to start with a lowercase letter, so I'd recommend "tskit" at the start rather than "Tskit".

I also feel like a little more info in the title would be useful? Maybe:

tskit: a software toolkit for population-scale Ancestral Recombination Graphs

or even

tskit: a software toolkit for working with population-scale Ancestral Recombination Graphs

or something vaguely along those lines. Just saying "tskit: population-scale Ancestral Recombination Graphs" is a bit ambiguous; it could be, for example, a collection of ARGs based upon empirical datasets, or something. That doesn't even make it clear that tskit is software.

[alxsimon]

I like Ben's second proposal.
There could also be some "importance" added to the title, marking the place of tskit in the ecosystem:
"tskit: a cornerstone/foundational software toolkit [...]"
Just food for thought.

[jeromekelleher]

Churning this over a bit (and considering Ben's excellent suggestions) I'm tending to prefer the simplicity of the current title and am inclined to leave it at that. I don't think we need to chase a whizz-bang title to try and convince people the software is important. Regarding formula, if the editors want that (or a fancier title) then I'm sure they'll tell us, if they accept the paper.

Leaving this open though, in case others have thoughts.