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Reflections on the First Year of a Journal
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Joshua LaBaer Harvard Medical School
György Marko-Varga AstraZeneca and Lund University EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Ruedi H. Aebersold Institute for Systems Biology
Leigh Anderson Large Scale Biology
Ettore Appella National Cancer Institute
Ronald Beavis Proteomic Solutions
Walter Blackstock Cellzome
Brian Chait The Rockefeller University
Patrick L. Coleman 3M
Catherine Fenselau University of Maryland
Daniel Figeys MDS Proteomics
Stanley Hefta Bristol-Myers Squibb
Donald F. Hunt University of Virginia
Barry L. Karger Northeastern University
Daniel C. Liebler University of Arizona
Matthias Mann University of Southern Denmark
Stephen A. Martin Applied Biosystems
Jeremy Nicholson Imperial College of London
J. Michael Ramsey Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Pier Giorgio Righetti University of Verona
John T. Stults
his issue of the Journal of Proteome Research (JPR) completes our first year of publication, and as editor, I am very grateful to be part of this scientific endeavor. It is rewarding to be able to reflect on the many fine JPR articles in print or press, especially given the journal’s track record of rapid publication coupled with excellent quality (not always coincident). This achievement is the result of hard work by the American Chemical Society (both in Washington, DC and Columbus, OH), the three JPR editorial offices, and most of all, the considerable enthusiasm of reviewers and authors. JPR has readily accomplished the goal of having six full issues in the first year, an attainment complemented by ASAP publishing of articles on our website at http://pubs.acs.org/JPR. The Web has allowed us to achieve a publication time of five weeks from submission to the posting of completely reviewed, fully edited research articles and clearly demonstrates the advantages of Web-based submission, review, and publication. Also, I would like to note that the first meeting of the JPR Editorial Advisory Board was held at the ACS national meeting in Boston and provided a welcome forum from which the JPR editors received a wide range of input. A key issue from the board was the need for the journal to have as wide a scope as possible for research reports. The board felt that for proteomics to be successful, the full scope of the field (ranging from microbes to mathematics to medicine) must be regularly presented in an integrated manner to the authors and readers. Therefore, in the second year of the journal we will emphasize the recruitment of papers from fields such as genomics, metabonomics, structural biology, bioinformatics, agriculture, and clinical chemistry. We will keep our focus on proteomics but include papers from other fields that produce data or information that is germane to proteomics. For example, protein expression data from genomics clearly overlaps with protein characterization studies. The observation of relevant biomarkers in a population study can aid in evaluating a proteomic study. Protein structural research can aid in establishing protein families. Metabonomic studies are of relevance to the monitoring of protein pathways. The integration of data from diverse fields is a tremendous challenge, and better visualization tools will be required before researchers will be able to mine the results in an integrated and global manner. An example of the need for visual clarification is the densely packed and difficult to interpret protein interaction maps generated by various affinity isolations of protein families. Such maps are but one example of the types of data sets that will be produced in the near future. Another comes from clinical proteomics, where a study of tissue should be tied to a patient’s record, which includes drug usage, disease progression, genotyping, and corresponding control tissue studies. So, as we move into our second year of publication, I urge you to consider sending the journal the widest possible range of papers from your laboratory, colleagues, and collaborators. The key focus for the journal is easily summed as biology, so that the context of development of new analytical approaches must be determined by the value that any such approach gives to solving the biology problem. The success or failure of proteomics will be determined by the insight that the new field gives to biological processes and hence to key problems such as the understanding of disease mechanisms.
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John R.Yates, III The Scripps Research Institute
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