BMC Bioinformatics: Review of 2015










2015 has been another stellar year for BMC Bioinformatics. Here we look back at five of the articles published this year that have drawn the most attention from our readers.

  • One of our devoted Section Editors highlighted an issue that is highly relevant in these times of increasing attention to reproducibility and development of open data policies – how should we handle the growing amount of supplementary information, which in many cases can surpass the length of the main text several fold? Supplementary material is necessary for a complete scientific record, especially in articles governed by size limitations. However, improperly implemented, such files might both obstruct thorough peer-review, reuse of data, and fair recognition of previous work through citation tracking.

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2015 has been another stellar year for BMC Bioinformatics. Here we look back at five of the articles published this year that have drawn the most attention from our readers.