PROTEOMICS – Continued growth and comprehensive coverage

PROTEOMICS -Continued growth and comprehensive coverageWi th this Issue, PROTEOMICS enters its sixth year of publication.The field of proteomics continues to expand and grow in importance as a major area of research in all areas of the life sciences, biomedicine and industry.The number of manuscripts submitted to the Journal has increased significantly over the last twelve months so that currently we must reject around half of the submitted papers.In order to satisfy this increased demand to publish papers in PROTEOMICS and have a more flexible publication schedule, the publisher has allocated additional pages for this year and perhaps more importantly we will publish Volume 6 in 24 issues.We hope that during the early part of this year we will be in a position to offer improved publication times, both in PDF form with associated DOI on-line via Early View in Wiley InterScience (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jissue/104534115),and in printed form in a hard copy issue of PROTEOMICS.Our aim continues to be to maintain PROTEOMICS as the premier source for information on all aspects of proteomics.We believe that the Journal provides the most comprehensive coverage in the field, spanning major technical developments in all major gel and non-gel based proteomic platforms and their application in all areas of the life sciences.In order to further this objective we are making some major changes to the article types that will be published in the Journal.The major article type will remain Research Papers but we are adding an additional section, Nanotechnology, in recognition of the increasing interest in the miniaturisation of proteomic technologies.The article type Rapid Communications will replace Short Communications, and we intend that the research described in these brief papers will be of such importance that rapid publication is warranted.We are launching a new article type, Dataset Briefs, that provide authors with the opportunity to describe novel proteomic datasets of specific types of sample generated using any proteomics platform (2-D gels, MS or protein arrays).Such datasets must contain a significant number of identified proteins that will be of benefit to further research.These papers will be brief but are supported by supplementary material, such as 2-D gel images and tables of protein identification data, which will only appear on-line.We continue to publish Reviews, Viewpoint articles and Reports on meetings, workshops and other events of interest in the field of proteomics.A new section of PROTEOMICS starting early this year will be In this Issue, in which three papers published in the Issue, selected on the basis of technical novelty or significance of application, will be featured through short commentaries.The rapid expansion of the field of proteomics has resulted in new but immature technology being enthusiastically applied to many important problems in biology.However, it is now clear that some of the published findings are of questionable quality and require confirmation.