BIOINFORMATICS

2013 was a significant year for Bioinformatics, as it marked 15 years of the journal in its current form.  The contribution of the editorial team is of course vital to the success of the journal, and as such we have created a new category of Honorary Editors, comprising past editors Alex Bateman, Martin Bishop, Christos Ouzounis, Chris Sander and Gary Stormo. Their contributions to the journal have been exceptional. Martin has also finished his term as our longest-running Associate Editor, having handled well in excess of 5000 manuscripts during his time as an editor. In addition, we thank Mario Albrecht, whose term came to an end, and welcome Robert Murphy as Associate Editor focusing on biological imaging and information extraction.

Our submission rate continued to increase in 2013, to 2200 papers, of which around 30% were accepted. Of our published papers, 160 were published open access, with authors choosing between CC-BY-NC and CC-BY licences.  Bioinformatics has an impact factor of 5.323, maintaining its position as one of the top journals in computational biology. At the time of writing the 2013 impact factors had yet to be published.

Our publication speed remains very fast -- accepted articles are online within 5 days and are published in an issue within 7 weeks. Review time is also fast, with first decision within month. Bioinformatics is an official journal of ISCB, and we have collected together the ISCB articles published in the journal over the past year (www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/bioinformatics/ iscb_articles.html).

A collection of papers have been published from a recent workshop organised by Bioinformatics Associate Editor David Posada. This 'virtual issue' will be populated with relevant articles as they are published (www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/
bioinformatics/phylogenetics_virtual_issue.html).

As ever, we welcome comments or feedback on any aspect of the journal - please do not hesitate to get in touch with us (bioinformatics.editorialoffice@oup.com) or visit us at the OUP booth at ISMB 2014 in Boston.

With best wishes,
The Bioinformatics Editorial Team