The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has announced plans to launch mSystems™, a new open access journal, in early 2016. mSystems™ will publish preeminent work that stems from applying technologies for high-throughput analyses to achieve insights into the metabolic and regulatory systems at the scale of both the single cell and microbial communities. The scope of mSystems encompasses all important biological and biochemical findings drawn from analyses of large datasets, as well as new computational approaches for deriving these insights.
mSystems™ will welcome submissions from researchers who apply ‘omics’ technologies to microbial systems—including the microbiome, genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, proteomics, glycomics, bioinformatics and computational microbiology.
Jack Gilbert, Founding Editor in Chief of mSystems™, is Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution and the Department of Surgery at the University of Chicago; Microbial Ecologist and Group Leader at Argonne National Laboratory; Senior Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole; and Associate Director of the Institute of Genomic and Systems Biology.
Author of more than 180 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters on microbial (meta)genomics and approaches to ecosystem ecology, Dr. Gilbert currently serves on the advisory board of the Genomic Standards Consortium, and, until July 1st, as section editor for PLoS ONE, and senior editor for the ISME Journal, and Environmental Microbiology.
ASM journals have long been recognized as important venues for dissemination of significant, high-quality microbiological research. The launch of mSystems™ will complement the excellence of ASM’s 10 specialised primary research journals. mSystems™ will welcome submissions from authors around the world and will provide rapid decisions on publication, while carrying on ASM’s tradition for rigorous peer review. Like the rest of the ASM journals program, the new journals will be hosted on the HighWire platform at journals.asm.org.
A formal ‘Call for Papers’ will be issued in September 2015, and the journal launch is planned for early 2016.
