Hi, that is a good question!

Pros:

- Promotion of open access and greater visibility of authors who can present their work to the scientific community before they are published in a journal

- Preliminary evaluation by the journal that can help us know if the manuscript is ready or not to send. This means that you do not have to go through a lengthy review process that eventually ends in rejection.

-Allow investigators to focus on grant applications that work because there is often a dilemma between the focus on establishing a reputation with publications or finding the resource that will allow research with more resources.

Cons:

- Not all journals accept papers that have been submitted to a preprint server.

- Scientists could rush to publish similar work after reading a publication in bioRxiv

At the end you will have to evaluate what is the most convenient in your case and find out if the journal to which you want to send your results accepts preprints.

Best regards.