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Dear Dr. ***

It is Nature's policy to return a substantial proportion of manuscript without sending them to referees, so that they may be sent elsewhere without delay. Decisions of this kind are made by the editorial staff, often on the advice of regular advisers when it appears that papers are unlikely to succeed in the competition for limited space.

Among the considerations that arise at this stage are the length of a manuscript, its likely interest to a general readership, the pressure on space in the various fields of Nature's interest and the likelihood that a manuscript would seem of great topical interest to those working in the same or related areas of science.

In this case, while we feel sure that your work will be of interest to others working in the field, I am afraid we are not persuaded that your findings will be of sufficiently immediate interest to a general readership to justify publication in Nature. We are accordingly returning your manuscript so that you can resubmit it elsewhere without delay.

Yours sincerely,