many cases have been seen both in British and Indian troops. As Dr. Napier pointed out (Editorial, 1936 ; Napier, 1943) the ' detecting power' of troops for disease, when they are introduced into India, is considerable. They need not be British troops. Indian troops when moved outside their own areas are prone to pick up disease to which they have not been exposed in their own country. The case...

A little over eighteen months ago, the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC), with the support of the Michigan State University Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy launched Standards in Genomic Sciences (SIGS). It was a bold experiment in open access publishing that was undertaken to fill a set of unmet needs within the broad community of genome biologists and bioinformaticians. It sought...