PLoS Computational Biology

There's a new issue of PLoS Computational Biology out. I didn't realize that it's now the ISCB's official journal, though I do vaguely remember filling in an ISCB survey form about the importance (or lack thereof) of having an open access official journal a while back.

Anyway, I'm glad. I always thought that it was strange that despite being affiliated with the ISCB OUP's Bioinformatics only gave you access to PDF versions of papers (aargh!) up until fairly recently. That's when you got access at all. Not much good for text mining or semantic markup or... well, anything much.

There's an article in there about how to get published, aimed mostly at students. The takeaway message seemed to be listen to your reviewers and be objective, which is fair enough.