EDITORIAL
Last year Nucleic Acids Research published a special issue devoted to web servers. This issue complemented the annual Database Issue, which has now appeared in 11 successive years. The Web Server Issue highlights the many servers that are available on the web to perform useful computations on DNA, RNA and protein sequences and structures. Between them, the two issues provide an unparalleled array of useful computational services. The new Web Server Issue aims to provide a repository in which authors of web servers can highlight their offerings and readers can find out what is available.
In the current issue there are reports of 137 web servers that run the gamut from BLAST services to three-dimensional protein structure prediction. The servers described have all been subjected to rigorous peer review, are available free of charge and provide invaluable resources to the scientific community. The scientists and programmers who have provided these resources deserve our immense thanks. They illustrate the very best of the scientific spirit that transcends national boundaries and promotes cooperation and the sharing of resources.
Authors interested in submitting articles for the 2005 Web Server Issue should contact Dr R. J. Roberts (roberts{at}neb.com) before sending in their articles, preferably before December 31, 2004. The deadline for submission of articles will be February 11, 2005. Prospective authors for papers in either the Database Issue or the Web Server Issue must consult the NAR website (http://nar.oupjournals.org/) for further details of what constitutes a suitable submission and instructions for preparing manuscripts and submitting them. Note that the 2005 Database Issue will be edited by Dr Alex Bateman, who should be contacted at nardatabase{at}mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk, no later than July 1, 2004, by all authors considering new submissions to that issue.
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