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What is your top 2011 MSB paper?

Below is a list of the top 10 most read research articles published in Molecular Systems Biology in 2011, based on combined HTML and PDF access.  The work by Saeidi et al, in particular, received widespread media coverage for making a practical first-step toward fighting infections with engineered microbes (e.g. at Science NOW, Ed Yong’s blog at Discover Magazine, Nature, and TheScientist).  Read more

Updated Instructions for Authors

Molecular Systems Biology has recently completed a major update of its Instructions for Authors. Of particular importance, this new document now fully incorporates information about our policies regarding transparency in scientific publishing. Molecular Systems Biology, along with the other EMBO Publications journals, has made a strong commitment to promoting transparency in the editorial process, and recently began publishing a Review Process File, containing anonymous reviewers’ reports, authors’ rebuttal letters, and the editor’s decisions, with accepted manuscripts. In addition, we have been working to promote greater availability, transparency, and re-usability for scientific data associated with published works. For more details on these efforts please see our editorial, “From bench to website.”  … Read more

Top-down mapping of gene regulatory pathways

Top-down mapping of gene regulatory pathways

In a very recent lecture (see full video from NIH VideoCasting) given for the NIH Systems Biology Special Interest Group, Trey Ideker presents a great overview of the various strategies his group has been developing in the recent years in order to integrate multiple types of large scale datasets. While one of the most pervasive ‘meme’ about high-throughput measurement is that they are “notoriously unreliable” (see Hakes et al, 2008, for a recent example), Trey beautifully illustrates how predictive computational models and novel biological insights can be generated by sophisticated data integration strategies. Three types of applications are presented in his talk:  … Read more

A new skin for Molecular Systems Biology

A new skin for Molecular Systems Biology

Following adoption of a new publication licence (see below) we have now also updated our instructions to authors to clarify our guidelines on the availability of published material, data and software, and, last but not least, redesigned the look & feel of our website to make it visually more attractive, to integrate the blog directly in our home page and to provide a retrospective look of the top PDF downloads of papers published in Molecular Systems Biology.  Read more

How do we get from the Jimome & Craigome to systems biology?

by George M Church, live from the 9th International Meeting on Human Genome Variation and Complex Genome Analysis, Sep 6-8, 2007 in Barcelona.  Read more