Dr. Bourne, the first author of this paper and one of the EiC's of this journal, was informed by me for the first time on 9 October 2015 that I was at that moment unable to locate the details of the competing interests statement of Dr. Barbour. This e-mail was sent in cc to Dr. Nussinov, the other EiC of this journal, to ploscompbiol AT plos.org and to data AT plos.org. I did not receive a response. A reminder was sent to Dr. Bourne on 12 October 2015. This reminder was sent in cc to Dr. Nussinov, to ploscompbiol AT plos.org, to data AT plos.org and to plosone AT plos.org I have until now only received an auto-reply from plosone AT plos.org on my reminder (Case 04210052).

Last week, I became aware that 'PLOS Computational Biology Staff' had posted a comment with the lacking details about the competing interests statement of Dr. Barbour. My e-mail of 9 October 2015 contained also other questions. I fail to understand why there is until now no response on my e-mail of 9 October 2015.