The field of proteomics continues to expand
2012; Wiley; Volume: 12; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1002/pmic.201290000
ISSN1615-9861
Autores Tópico(s)Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
ResumoPROTEOMICSVolume 12, Issue 1 p. 1-3 EditorialFree Access The field of proteomics continues to expand First published: 05 January 2012 https://doi.org/10.1002/pmic.201290000Citations: 1AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL With this issue, PROTEOMICS enters its twelfth year of publication. It is clear from the more than 8000 papers on the topic of proteomics that are being published on an annual basis (data from PubMed/MEDLINE) and the proliferation of new journals in the field that the interest of the scientific community in the application of proteomics to research in the Life Sciences is showing no signs of abating. This level of interest is reflected in the fact that many more papers are submitted during the year to PROTEOMICS than we can possibly publish, with the consequence that we have to decline more than 50% of the submitted papers. Our main aim continues to be to maintain PROTEOMICS as the premier source for information on all aspects of proteomics. Over the last year, it has again been a pleasure to work with our four Associate Editors, Thierry Rabilloud (Grenoble, France), Scott Patterson (Thousand Oaks, CA, USA), Roz Banks (Leeds, UK) and Jennifer Van Eyk (Baltimore, MD, USA), together with Achim Kraus, Managing Editor of PROTEOMICS to help shape future development of the journal to ensure that it remains a leader in the field. I would also like to thank our group of Senior Editors who have as always made a major contribution to the journal by coordinating the peer review process for all of the papers submitted to the journal. Finally, I would like to express our sincere thanks to the panel of nearly 1000 Reviewers who have taken part in the peer review process of papers submitted to PROTEOMICS over the last 12 months. Their names can be found in the list which appears at the end of this issue. It is now some time since we made any extensive revisions to the Editorial Board of PROTEOMICS. We believe that it is now an appropriate time to revitalise the Editorial Board by recruiting some new members to join as from January 2012 (Volume 12). We did not consider it necessary to increase significantly the number of Board members beyond its current level, so unfortunately I have had to ask a proportion of the current members to retire from the Editorial Board at this time. I would like to express my appreciation for the valuable input that these individuals have made as Board members to the development of the journal over the past years. I would now like to welcome the scientists who have accepted our invitation to join the Editorial Board of PROTEOMICS with effect from this issue. I am sure that their expertise and enthusiasm will enhance the journal in future. The names of the new Board members are: Christoph Borchers (Canada), ChunHui Deng (China), Daniel Figeys (Canada), David Friedman (USA), David Graham (USA), Canhua Huang (China), Connie Jimenez (Netherlands), Thomas Kislinger (Canada), Daniel Kolarich (Germany), Tadashi Kondo (Japan), Dong Li (China), Ralf Rabus (Germany), Shen-Ce Tao (China), Michael Washburn (USA), Lihua Zhang (China), and Xiangmin Zhang (China). Following this revision, about 12% of the Editorial Board members of PROTEOMICS are from China. This is a reflection of the situation that the number of good quality papers submitted by Chinese authors is steadily increasing. In order to improve the service to authors located in China, Wiley has opened Editorial Offices in Shanghai and Beijing. Tina Wang started work in the Beijing Office on June 1 last year. She has been able to provide the most valuable background information concerning Chinese candidates for the Editorial Board. In addition, she is providing support on editorial tasks such as manuscript check-in and answering enquiries from Authors, Reviewers and Editors. I would now like to inform you about some new features and organisational changes that affect PROTEOMICS. Over the last period we have seen a very strong growth in the application of proteomics to plant biology. As many of you will already be aware, this has resulted in the establishment of the International Plant Proteomics Organization (INPPO: http://www.inppo.com/), whose aim is to organize, preserve and disseminate collected information on plant proteomics. Further information on the aims and current initiatives of INPPO can be found in a Viewpoint article recently published in PROTEOMICS 1. I am happy to inform you that we will now publish short articles providing details of INPPO activities under the banner “INPPO Highlights”. The first of these INPPO Highlights is scheduled to be published soon in PROTEOMICS (Volume 12, Issue 3, March 2012). In recognition of the importance of this area, we are launching in collaboration with INPPO, a new Section of PROTEOMICS under the heading “Plant Proteomics”. Another new Section of the journal that was recently launched is “Tutorial”. As was described in my accompanying Editorial 2, we will publish in this Section articles submitted to PROTEOMICS as part of the HUPO/EuPA International Proteomics Tutorial Programme (IPTP) coordinated by Peter James (Sweden), Thierry Rabilloud (France) and Kazuyuki Nakamura (Japan). IPTP articles will be published in the four leading proteomic journals (PROTEOMICS, Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, Journal of Proteome Research, and Journal of Proteomics). Further details of the IPTP can be found in the article by Peter James 3. Our first Tutorial article was published recently 4. Another new Section that we are launching in this issue of PROTEOMICS is called “Commentary”. The idea of these short contributions is that they will refer to another scientific article published in the same issue of the journal which has been identified as of being of outstanding scientific quality. During the on-line peer review process, Reviewers will be asked to identify articles which they consider deserve to be highlighted in this way. Normally, the Reviewer identifying such an article will then be invited to write a Commentary which will be published in the same issue of PROTEOMICS as the original scientific article. Partly in response to the development of these new Sections of PROTEOMICS, we have decided as of this issue to return to our former practice of subdividing the Table of Contents of PROTEOMICS into Sections reflecting the various subject areas, these being: HUPO Highlights, INPPO Highlights, Commentary, Viewpoint, Tutorial, Technology, Nanoproteomics, Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, Protein Arrays, Glycoproteomics, Cell Biology, Microbiology, Plant Proteomics, Animal Proteomics, and Biomedicine. As of January 2012, we are publishing a new set of Instructions to Authors for PROTEOMICS which includes some additions and amendments. Authors interested in submitting a paper to the journal are urged to consult carefully the current Instructions to Authors which can be found online. The current version of the Instructions to Authors is in HTML format with hyperlinks to different sections or other pages and can be seen at: http://forauthors.proteomics-journal.com. While the majority of the 24 issues of PROTEOMICS that will be published during 2012 will be regular issues, we will continue our policy of producing Special Issues devoted to collections of papers covering important and emerging areas of proteomics. In Volume 12 we will publish Special Issues on Bioinformatics in Proteomics (Editor: FangXiang Wu), Brain Proteomics (Editor: Gert Lubec), Cancer Proteomics (Editors: William Gallagher and Ben Collins), Gel-free Separation and Detection Methods (Editor: Jennifer Van Eyk), Protein Complexes and Interaction Networks (Editors: Alexey Nesvizhskii and Anne-Claude Gingras), Proteomics in Brazil (Editor: Daniel Martins-de-Souza), and Targeted Proteomics (Editors: Ruedi Aebersold/Christine Carapito). In addition, we will continue our tradition of having an annual issue devoted to reviews of hot topics in the field, to be published as issue 4 of Volume 12. We are already planning the Reviews issue of PROTEOMICS for Volume 13 (2013) – see the Call for Reviews published in this issue. The “goPROTEOMICS” portal continues to be maintained by our Web Editor, Christine Mayer, but has now been integrated into the homepages of PROTEOMICS and Proteomics Clinical Applications in Wiley Online Library. To access all of the familiar content such as Book Reviews, Picture of the Month and Viewpoint Forum and also new features, including the redesigned Meetings Diary which contains more than 180 meetings and courses in the fields of proteomics and genomics and features an interactive calendar, map views and a useful filter function, visit the PROTEOMICS home page (http://www.proteomics-journal.com) and select items from the menu “Special Features”. Finally, I would like to thank the Associate Editors, Senior Editors, Editors of Special Issues, the Editorial Board and the members of the editorial team, and in particular the Managing Editor, Achim Kraus, and his team in the Editorial Office for their efforts over the last year to maintain PROTEOMICS as the most comprehensive journal in the field. I hope that researchers will continue to choose PROTEOMICS as the journal in which to publish the results of their research. Finally, I would like to thank you, the readers, for your continued support of PROTEOMICS and hope that you will find much to stimulate and interest you in PROTEOMICS during 2012. Michael J. Dunn Editor-in-Chief References 1Agrawal, G. K., Job, D., Zivy, M., Agrawal, V. P. et al., Time to articulate a vision for the future of plant proteomics – a global perspective: An initiative for establishing the International Plant Proteomics Organization (INPPO). Proteomics 2011, 11, 1559– 1568. 2Dunn, M. J., The International Proteomics Tutorial Programme (IPTP). Proteomics 2011, 11, 3595. 3James, P., The International Proteomics Tutorial Programme (IPTP): a teaching tool box for the proteomics community, Proteomics 2011, 11, 3596– 3597. 4Haw, R., Hermjakob, H., D'Eustachio, P., Stein, L., Reactome pathway analysis to enrich biological discovery in proteomics data sets. Proteomics 2011, 11, 3598– 3613. Citing Literature Volume12, Issue1January 2012Pages 1-3 ReferencesRelatedInformation
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