Cross-disciplinary research difficult to evaluate – plethaurus

"Based at Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, Michor is using mathematics, computer science, biology, and medicine to investigate the origins of cancer, relationships among cancer types and the emergence of drug-resistant tumors. “...Michor’s work relies on experiments done by her collaborators to verify that models are biologically or medically relevant. Because of these cross-disciplinary methods, a paper can include sequencing data, gene expression data, and growth data alongside the mathematical models. As with some other interdisciplinary fields, it’s often difficult to find the right journal or reviewers who can evaluate the combination of mathematics and biology....” Consider how such a research paper could be published in an open-access repository along with original datasets and mathematical models...."