Abstract
Standards in Genomic Sciences: New beginnings to reflect the association between the journal and BMC.
Highlights
Five years ago, we began the public phase of an experiment in open access publishing, aimed at addressing a perceived gap that was emerging in the field of genomics [1,2]
In the inaugural issue of Standards in Genomic Sciences (SIGS), we introduced the concept of the Short Genome Report; a highly structured article that was designed to make comparison of genomes simple for both human and machine readers
The Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) sought to address this issue and to provide various communities of interest with a venue to report on their activities and concerns to funding agencies and to the broader scientific community in the pages of SIGS
Summary
We began the public phase of an experiment in open access publishing, aimed at addressing a perceived gap that was emerging in the field of genomics [1,2]. In the inaugural issue of SIGS, we introduced the concept of the Short Genome Report; a highly structured article that was designed to make comparison of genomes simple for both human and machine readers.
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