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Hot paper in BMC Bioinformatics
A 2006 article from BMC Bioinformatics has just been highlighted as a Hot Paper by Thomson Scientific's
Essential
Science Indicators.
"Quantitative prediction of mouse class I MHC peptide binding affinity using support vector machine regression (SVR) models" by Darren Flower of the Jenner Institute and Tongbin Li of the University of Minnesota qualified for Hot Paper status based on its citation rate in the 20 months since its publication. The paper describes the use of machine learning techniques to predict the binding of peptides to major histocompatibility complex proteins
As Dr Li told Essential
Science Indicators, "Improved models of peptide-MHC interactions will lead to savings in cost and experimental effort in immunology research, and, in the long run, will improve people’s health".
Posted by Matt Hodgkinson at 19:52 Comments (0)
BioMed Central journals relevant to nursing and allied healthcare now indexed by Cinahl
We are pleased to announce that 9 BioMed Central journals
have recently been accepted for indexing by Cinahl,
which indexes titles relevant to nursing and allied healthcare.
The journals are:
- BMC Nursing
- BMC Oral Health
- BMC Women's Health
- Breast Cancer Research
- Chinese Medicine
- Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
- International Breastfeeding Journal
- Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation
- Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care
In addition, all of these titles are included in PubMed, PubMed Central and Scopus. Full details of all indexing services which cover BioMed Central journals are available from our website.
Posted by Charlotte Hubbard at 19:16 Comments (0)
Karen Beemon wins the 2007 M.Jeang Retrovirology Prize
It was announced today that Dr Karen Beemon has been awarded the third annual M.Jeang Retrovirology Prize. Dr Beemon, Professor and Chair of the Biology Department, Johns Hopkins University, will receive a $3000 cheque and a crystal trophy, and is interviewed in an article published today in Retrovirology.
The M.Jeang Retrovirology
Prize, awarded annually, recognises an outstanding mid-career retrovirologist
aged 45 to 60. The prize, supported by the Ming K. Jeang Foundation, alternates
between HIV and non-HIV research. The winner is selected by Retrovirology’s
Editors, from nominations submitted by the journal’s Editorial Board. Retrovirology’s
Editor-in-Chief, Kuan-Teh Jeang explained why they awarded Dr Beemon with
the Retrovirology prize:
“Professor
Beemon has made tremendous contributions to our understanding of how
retroviruses transform cells. She was
instrumental in establishing that one of the important transformation mechanisms is the aberrant
phosphorylation of cellular proteins on tyrosine residues.”
We wish Dr Beeman many congratulations!
Posted by Charlotte Hubbard at 15:30 Comments (0)