Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its journal Genome Biology is celebrating its 10th anniversary. To mark this, a series of reviews from areas of particular interest in the genomics field and from scientists who have helped shape these fields over the last decade have been commissioned.
The latest issue of Genome Biology contains more than the usual research highlights, reviews and cutting edge scientific research. An editorial from Editor Clare Garvey on ‘A decade and genome of change’ discusses the humble beginnings of Genome Biology.
First published in 2000, the same year as the Human Genome Project and the Celera Genomics Corporation announced their completion of the first draft of the human genome, Genome Biology was the first open access genomics journal. The special collection of reviews that are published in the May issue of Genome Biology includes perspective pieces from several of the journal’s Editorial Board members and long-term supporters of the journal. Also, the special collection includes a review from Lincoln Stein who is the Director of the Informatics and Biocomputing Platform at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. He discusses the use of cloud computing for analysing large-scale biological datasets and the contentious issue of data storage that face the genomics community.
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