Phyloinformatics

From the editor, Dennis Degreve: "Phyloinformatics is a new, non-profit, international, peer reviewed, open access journal dedicated to publishing high quality papers on the use of informatics in taxonomy and phylogenetics. Taxonomists often need
to manage fairly large amounts of data for which elegant solutions are
needed, and the inference of phylogeny itself is impossible without the
use of computers and optimized algorithms.

To help this emerging field of taxonomy grow, we have started Phyloinformatics. Phyloinformatics is not a regular journal: it's only available online and it's open access. Phyloinformatics offers all published papers as a free PDF download, there are no subscription or login procedures for readers and no page charges for authors. But open access means more than just free: our authors remain the copyright holders of their work. Being an online journal has lots of advantages: papers can be published very fast and are available to anyone with a computer and internet connection.

CALL FOR PAPERS -
Phyloinformatics is just starting now and we are looking for high quality manuscripts in one of the following two categories:

PAPERS
Describing new research developments in computational taxonomy, for example: new evolutionary models, algorithms, software involving new methods, taxonomic databases, proposals for new file formats an network information services, and their impact on taxonomy.

APPLICATION NOTES
Short descriptions about new software or new algorithm implementations, databases and network services. The software or data should be available online as free- or donationware.

We are planning to publish our first articles before the end of 2003. Visit our site for more information on manuscript submission

EDITORS WANTED
We are looking for senior taxonomists with experience in the field of phylogenetic analysis and/or taxonomic databases who would like to join the editorial board. Just send an e-mail to editor@phyloinformatics.org The editorial board will be announced on our website soon.

Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 11:26 AM on August 27, 2003