Editorial Column—System Thinking for Service Research Advances

Editorial: Advances in Ascochyta Research

Guest Editorial: Advances in Web Services Research

Research on Web Services and Services Computing began shortly after the start of the new millennium and with the first major research conference on the subject, the International Conference on Web Services, starting in 2003. Due to the new and practical utility of Web service technology, many researchers began to work in this field. New ideas, applications and related technologies continue to i...

Editorial: Advances in Parasitic Weed Research

Over 4,000 plant species parasitize other plants to obtain water and nutrients. A few of these species have become weedy posing a tremendous threat to agriculture. The most damaging to annual crops are the root parasitic weeds, particularly broomrapes (Orobanche and Phelipanche spp.) and witchweeds (Striga spp.), which are extended over large agricultural areas in Europe, Africa and Asia. A pro...

Editorial: Omics research and bioinformatics - joined-up thinking or anarchy?

DNA makes RNA makes protein and cells are full of many other molecules – these are the subject matter of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics, and no doubt lots of other omics too. Browsing in the library, one comes across a journal called Omics: A Journal of Integrative Biology. The articles in the current issue appear to apply individual omics, not joined-up omics. The first...

Editorial: Wishful thinking

As a supplement to our lead editorial, the editors of the new journal, Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations, provide a partial list of specific analyses and topic areas they would like to see submitted to the journal.