GigaScience is now 5 years old, having been launched at the 2012 Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology conference. Anyone who has attended what is the largest computational biology conference since then has had the opportunity to join us for each birthday celebration-and receive 1 of our fun T-shirts as a party prize. Since launching, we have pushed our agenda of openness, transparency, rep...

ith this issue, Cellular and Molecular GastroenterW ology and Hepatology begins its second year of publication. By any measure, tremendous progress has been made toward establishing Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology as a valuable resource for the broader gastrointestinal research community. By the numbers, our turnaround time from submission to first decision has remained a...

W ell, here I am again, almost 12 months after my January " welcome to a new year " greeting, now writing my " so long, it's been good to know you " message. It's with sadness that I do this because this has been the quickest and most incredible year of my life. In my capacity as the IEEE Computer Society's president, I've traveled almost 150,000 miles and spoken to thousands of colleagues in n...

many studies have been carried out and many methods have been used for estimating health staff re-quirements in health facilities or system, each have different advantages and disadvantages. differences in the extent to which utilization matches needs in different conditions intensify the limitations of each approach when used in iso-lation. is the utilization-based approach efficient in a situ...

As well as containing an excellent bunch of research papers, this month's BJGP celebrates two important milestones in its history — the 50th anniversary of the first publication of the Journal of the College of General Practitioners, without the appended College Research Newsletter, in 1960 and the establishment of the Journal's International Advisory Board during 2010. But first the papers. Th...