Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the winners of its 4th Annual Research Awards. The event was attended by short listed authors, eminent researchers, publishers, open access advocates and science journalists from around the world.
The awards, now in their fourth year, acknowledge excellence in research that has been made universally accessible by open access publication. The two main awards, the Biology and Medicine Prizes, recognise biological or medical research published in any of BioMed Central's journals during 2009.
This year saw the introduction of a new prize, the BioMed Central Open Data Award, in association with Microsoft Research. This was presented to Yoosook Lee from the School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis, for her article 'Ecological and genetic relationships of the Forest-M form among chromosomal and molecular forms of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto'.
Genome Biology, published by BioMed Central, also gave a special award recognising the best article published in the journal during 2009, to mark its 10th anniversary. This was awarded to Ben Langmead, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, for his research 'Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome'.
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