Bioinformatics Journal

The impact factor release date is slightly later this year, and at the time of writing the 2010 impact factors have yet to be announced. However, some of the highly cited papers that will contribute towards Bioinformatics'impact factor include:

• DnaSP v5: a software for comprehensive analysis of DNA polymorphism data, Librado P, Rozas J Bioinformatics (2009) 25: 1451-1452
• Jalview Version 2-a multiple sequence alignment editor and analysis workbench, Waterhouse AM, Procter JB, Martin DMA, et al. Bioinformatics (2009) 25: 1189-1191
• Searching protein structure databases with DaliLite v.3. Holm, L; Kaariainen, S; Rosenstrom, P; and Schenkel, A. Bioinformatics (2008) 24: 2780-2781
• SOAP: short oligonucleotide alignment program. Li, RQ; Li, YR; Kristiansen, K; and Wang, J. Bioinformatics (2008) 24:713-714

The joint two top cited articles from 2010 are:

• Fast and accurate long-read alignment with Burrows-Wheeler transform, Li H, Durbin R, Bioinformatics (2010) 26:589-595
• edgeR: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data, Robinson MD, McCarthy DJ, Smyth GK, Bioinformatics (2010) 26:139-140

There have been some changes to the Bioinformatics editorial team - Mario Albrecht and Janet Kelso have both started terms as Associate Editors. We would like to thank Dmitrij Frishman and Joaquin Dopazo for their hard work as Associate Editors over their terms, and we are delighted that both have agreed to join the Editorial Board. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank over 3000 reviewers who enabled the peer review of around 2000 submissions in 2010.

Bioinformatics now has a mobile-optimized website (http://m.bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/) which has been developed to provide simpler, more intuitive browsing on mobile devices including iPhone and iPad, Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile smartphones, and Blackberry.

Bioinformatics has been at the forefront of OUP's improvements to the author experience - authors are now able to 'sign' their licences to publish online, and the journal is in a pilot scheme enabling authors to pay their open access fee online.

In 2010 over 30% of authors opted to publish their papers under our optional open access model, Oxford Open.

Once again Bioinformatics is sponsoring the high-throughput sequencing (HiTSeq) SIG at ISMB/ECCB this year and will award two prizes for the best papers during the event. Last year's award winners were:

• Leena Salmela 'Correction of sequencing errors in a mixed set of reads'
• Tianjiao Chu et al. 'Statistical Model for Whole Genome Sequencing and its Application to Minimally Invasive Diagnosis of Fetal Genetic Disease'

We will be distributing copies of the HiTSeq special issue at the SIG at ISMB/ECCB in Vienna.

As ever, we welcome any comments or feedback on any aspect of the journal - please do not hesitate to get in touch with us (bioinformatics.editorialoffice@oxfordjournals.org).

With best wishes,
Alex Bateman
Alfonso Valencia
and the Bioinformatics Editorial team