For the attention of all new biologists. Please spread the word. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --------------------- Source Code for Biology and Medicine <http://www.scfbm.org/> Editors-in-Chief: Emmanuel Ifeachor (United Kingdom) and Leif Peterson (United States) Dear Colleague, We are pleased to announce that Source Code for Biology and Medicine has now been launched and is freely available online <http://www.scfbm.org/>. Source Code for Biology and Medicine is an open access <http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/charter>, peer-reviewed online journal that publishes articles on source code employed over a wide range of applications in biology and medicine. Several articles that might be interesting to you have already been published: Editorial Welcome to Source Code for Biology and Medicine <http://www.scfbm.org/content/1/1/1> Leif E Peterson and Emmanuel C Ifeachor Source Code for Biology and Medicine 2006, 1:1 (12 October 2006) Research A traveling salesman approach for predicting protein functions <http://www.scfbm.org/content/1/1/3> Olin Johnson and Jing Liu Source Code for Biology and Medicine 2006, 1:3 (12 October 2006) Methodology DADOS-Prospective: an open source application for Web-based prospective data collection <http://www.scfbm.org/content/1/1/7> Lam Nguyen, Anand Shah, Matthew Harker, Henrique Martins, Mariana McCready, Andreia Menezes, Danny O Jacobs and Ricardo Pietrobon Source Code for Biology and Medicine 2006, 1:7 (13 November 2006) To keep up to date with the latest articles from Source Code for Biology and Medicine, why not register to receive article alerts <http://www.scfbm.org/alerts/> when new research is published? Submit your research to Source Code for Biology and Medicine and take advantage of a rapid, high quality peer-review service, an efficient online submission process, no colour charges or limits on the number of figures, and immediate publication upon acceptance. The published version of your article will be immediately placed in PubMed Central and other freely accessible full-text repositories, making it highly visible to fellow researchers and a general audience worldwide. This complies with the NIH Public Access Policy <http://publicaccess.nih.gov/> and the Wellcome Trust Open Access Policy <http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/node3302.html>. To enable the journal to make all of its content open access, Source Code for Biology and Medicine will levy an article-processing charge for each manuscript accepted after peer review (payable on acceptance <http://www.scfbm.org/info/faq/apcfaq.asp>). Please submit your manuscript via our online submission system <http://www.scfbm.org/manuscript/login/man.asp?txt_nav=chk&>. For more information about the journal, contact peterson.leif@ieee.org or visit our instructions for authors <http://www.scfbm.org/info/instructions/>. Yours sincerely, Emmanuel Ifeachor and Leif Peterson The Editors-in-Chief, Source Code for Biology and Medicine <http://www.scfbm.org/info/contact/> ----------------------------------------------------------------- Editors-in-Chief Emmanuel Ifeachor (United Kingdom) Leif Peterson (United States) Editorial Board Generoso Bevilacqua (Italy) Elia Biganzoli (Italy) Ramón Cacabelos (Spain) Xue-wen Chen (United States) Matthew Coleman (United States) Anne Denton (United States) Jose Fonseca (Portugal) Paolo Frasconi (Italy) Jonathan Garibaldi (United Kingdom) Owen Hoffman (United States) Jung-chang Huang (United States) Vasily Leonov (Russian Federation) Paulo Lisboa (United Kingdom) Francesco Masulli (Italy) Rita Noumeir (Canada) Lucila Ohno-Machado (United States) Silvano Paoli (Italy) Giovanni Parmigiani (United States) Ioannis Pitas (Greece) Edward Sarkisyan-Grinbaum (Switzerland) Scott Smith (United States) Roberto Tagliaferri (Italy) Manuel Ujaldon (Spain) Staal Vinterbo (United States) Michalis Zervakis (Greece) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com