Open access (OA) publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced a new section 'Discovery Notes' within its OA journal, Biology Direct. The section will be overseen by Section Editor L Aravind and Editors-in-Chief David J Lipman, Laura Landweber, and Eugene Koonin.
Discovery Notes will be brief reports of specific discoveries made by computational analysis of nucleic acid and/or protein sequences, structures or other data, with novel observations and conclusions about the function, organisation, or evolution of proteins, genes or genomes. The addition of these articles to Biology Direct will allow the rapid communication of key findings, and the novel connections and relationships which they identify will spur experimental investigations in new and unexpected directions.
Biology Direct aims to publish original research articles, hypotheses, and reviews from the full spectrum of biology. Launched in 2006, the journal operates a unique open peer review system, whereby reviewers' comments and authors' responses are published alongside the final article, making the process of peer review open, rather than anonymous. The journal is tracked by Thomson Scientific and is due to receive its first impact factor in 2008.
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