Editorial pubs.acs.org/jpr
Please Welcome John Yates, III as Editor of the Journal of Proteome Research he last five months have flown by quickly as I have tried to keep up with being Editor of Analytical Chemistry and Interim Editor of Journal of Proteome Research. Dr. William Hancock, the inaugural Editor for 14 years, did a great job with the journal, making my job both easier and harder. Easier as the journal was in great shape when I took over last October and harder in that he created difficult “shoes” to fill. I have greatly enjoyed learning about the journal and seeing the hundreds of manuscripts that were submitted since I began last Fall. I especially appreciate the opportunity I had to interact with the exceptional editorial team of Setsuko Komatsu, Joshua LaBaer, Jeremy K. Nicholson, Christopher M. Overall, Albert Sickmann, Johan Trygg, and Susan T. Weintraub. Their expertise and dedication to Journal of Proteome Research are outstanding. I also want to add a special thanks to Akane Nisic, the Journal Office Administrator, and Antonella Mazur, the Journal Managing Editor. They both really helped to ensure the transition went smoothly. While you may not recognize all of these names, together they are the force that keeps the Journal of Proteome Research operation efficient and moving forward. What about the future? I am happy to announce that John R. Yates, III has formally been appointed as Editor of Journal of Proteome Research. He is an excellent choice to lead the journal. John is the Ernest W. Hahn Professor in the Departments of Chemical Physiology and Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience at The Scripps Research Institute. His research focuses on information generated by tandem mass spectrometry to identify proteins from complex mixtures in an effort to increase the scope, sensitivity, and throughput of technologies for practical proteomics. His team develops and applies proteomics tools to analyze extremely complex protein mixtures, study host− pathogen interactions in diseases such as malaria, and find posttranslational modifications to the proteins within these same complex mixtures. John’s work has led to significant advances in the proteomics field, as the lead inventor of the SEQUEST software for correlating tandem mass spectrometry data to sequences in the database and developer of the shotgun proteomics technique for the analysis of protein mixtures. Many proteomic approaches developed by John have become national and international resources for many investigators in the scientific community. He has published more than 250 papers in the past five years and has been the recipient of a number of awards, including two in 2015: the American Chemical Society Award in Analytical Chemistry and the Ralph N. Adams Award in Bioanalytical Chemistry. I have worked with John for a number of years as an Associate Editor for Analytical Chemistry, where he has been an outstanding, thoughtful, and conscientious colleague. Thus, I leave Journal of Proteome Research in very capable hands. I look forward to observing what the future brings as he pushes Journal of Proteome Research to the next levels of impact and service to the proteomics and metabolomics communities.
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Jonathan V. Sweedler AUTHOR INFORMATION
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Published: March 4, 2016 1115
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.6b00195 J. Proteome Res. 2016, 15, 1115−1115
