Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that following the successful launch of the journal Epigenetics & Chromatin, a special print issue containing some of the first articles will be available at the Keystone Symposium 'Epigenetics, Development & Human Disease,' scheduled for January 5-10 in Breckenridge, Colorado. The special print issue will be in circulation at the symposium.
Epigenetics & Chromatin co-Editor-in-Chief, Steven Henikoff, will give the Keynote Address on the opening evening of the symposium. Over the course of the meeting Editorial Board members William Kelly, Amanda Fisher, Barbara Meyer and Timothy Bestor will each chair a session of lectures.
Epigenetics & Chromatin is a peer-reviewed open access online journal, which publishes articles that provide novel insights into epigenetic inheritance and chromatin-based interactions. The journal fulfills the need for a journal that reflects the breadth of epigenetic research. Topics include, but are not limited to, gene silencing and imprinting, cellular reprogramming, nucleosome modification assembly and remodeling, DNA methylation, chromatin structure and dynamics, chromosomal maintenance elements, dosage compensation, interchromosomal interactions and prion inheritance.
Although only a recent addition to BioMed Central's online open access journals, Epigenetics & Chromatin has already published a number of quality articles, including a groundbreaking publication from the Brockdorff lab which was highlighted in a mini-review by Barbara Panning in Journal of Biology.
