新しいジャーナル Source code for Biology and Medicine が BioMed Central にて創刊

BioMed Central にて，医学生物学分野のソースコードをあつかうジャーナルが創刊されることに．たいへん興味深い．

• Source Code for Biology and Medicine | Home page
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YOKOFAKUN: New BMC Journal: "Source Code for Biology and Medicine" では SourceForge （や Bioinformatics.org）との違いは，ソースコードの配布だけではなく査読付き論文が手に入ることと考察している．

Editors-in-Chief には Emmanuel Ifeachor (United Kingdom) と Leif Peterson (United States) が．Leif Peterson (United States) は http://www.chipst2c.org/ でいくつかのマイクロアレイ解析のソフトウェアを公開している．フリーソフトウェアやオープンソースソフトウェア色はうすめな印象．

Source Code for Biology and Medicine aims to publish source code for distribution and use in the public domain in order to advance biological and medical research. Through this dissemination, it may be possible to shorten the time required for solving certain computational problems for which there is limited source code availability or resources.

Fundamentally, the overarching computation-related goals of the journal are to:

• Increase productivity among source code users working on problems of public and environmental health importance
• Reduce discovery times in molecular and genomic sciences
• Reduce search times for source code applied in biological and medical research
• Provide a historical reflection of source code applied in various fields
• Serve as a repository for source code

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Serve as a repository for source code

がどのような実体となるのだろうか．