Genomics calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers for a Special Theme Issue of Clinical Chemistry: Advancing Women’s Health: The Impact of Biomarkers and Genomics

Clinical Chemistry is pleased to announce a special upcoming theme issue on Women’s Health edited by Drs. Ann M. Gronowski, JoAnn E. Manson, Elaine R. Mardis, Samia Mora, and Catherine Y. Spong titled “Advancing Women’s Health: The Impact of Biomarkers and Genomics.” Clinical Chemistry, published by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, is the most highly cited forum for peer-reviewed, original research in the fields of clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine.

The purpose of this issue is to highlight recent advances in biochemical and genetic markers used for the diagnosis, therapy, and preventive care of women during all stages of life. This issue will include diverse themes such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, metabolic disease, normal and abnormal pregnancy, infertility, and infectious disease.

Clinical Chemistry invites authors to submit original articles related to women’s health to be considered for publication in this special issue.

Potential topics of interest include:

• Discovery and validation of novel biomarkers for the diagnosis, prognosis, and monitoring therapy of diseases that affect women including: cancer, cardiometabolic and/or cerebrovascular disease, bone disease, and autoimmune disorders

• The genomics of ovarian, uterine, cervical, and breast cancer

• The effect of gender on the risk factors and outcomes related to diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease

• Changes in the microbiome and biomarkers related to pregnancy

• Novel molecular diagnostic tools for pre-implantation genetic analysis

• Non-invasive screening for fetal aneuploidies and other pregnancy outcomes

• Novel biomarkers for the diagnosis of pregnancy-related disorders such as pre-eclampsia, ectopic pregnancy, preterm delivery, and gestational diabetes

• Biomarkers for the diagnosis of infertility, menopause, and premature ovarian failure

• The impact of infectious disease on the global health of women

Be a part of this exciting issue!

Submissions must be received through our online submission system at http://submit.clinchem.org no later than July 1, 2013. Your cover letter should express your interest in submitting your paper for consideration for the Women’s Health theme issue. Journal guidelines for submission apply as described in the Information for Authors on the submission website.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association: Big Data in Healthcare and Biomedical Research

Questions Regarding the Issue

Please direct any questions regarding the special issue or submissions to Dr. Lucila Ohno-Machado (machado@ucsd.edu)

Motivation

The collection, annotation, organization, integration, analysis, interpretation, governance, and sharing of big, complex, and sensitive data from healthcare and biomedical research has recently become the emphasis of several government initiatives in the USA and abroad. While the informatics community has been dealing with many of these issues for several years, the dissemination of new approaches and solutions may be scattered in several different journals, conference proceedings, and web sites. The purpose of this special focus issue is to publish the most innovative approaches and solutions (through Research and Applications articles, Brief Communications, and Case Reports), and place them in context of the work that has been previously published (through Reviews and Perspectives). User-friendly Tutorials that help non-specialists better understand the methods commonly used in machine and statistical learning, as well as in large scale integrative approaches related to common data models, ontologies and standards are also welcome.

Topics of Interest

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

- Scalable systems for data integration across sites

- Large scale standards-based representation and modeling of data and algorithms

- Information retrieval that combines the biomedical literature and patient data sources

- Collaborative filtering

- Adaptive learning

- Distributed multiparty computation and large scale distributed data annotation

- High performance computing and parallel processing

- Novel inferential statistics and machine learning algorithms

- Evaluation strategies

- Ethical, social, and legal considerations

- Analyses of big data from EHRs, genomes, proteomes, images, social media, patient reports, etc.

Authors should make sure to place their work in the context of biomedical research or healthcare, and to carefully review the relevant literature. Research & Applications articles, Case Studies, and Brief Communications should describe clear evaluation strategies and quantitative or qualitative results, and discuss how results could be generalized to other settings. Preference will be given to systematic Reviews. Perspectives should provide consensus of a group of experts who are highly experienced in the topic, and should demonstrate command of the existing literature, particularly recent literature whose synthesis would be new to our readers. Open-source software code and data should be submitted, as well as data when appropriate.

Important Dates

May 31, 2013 Manuscript submission deadline

July 31, 2013 (expected) Initial decisions sent to authors

August 31, 2013 (expected) Revised manuscript submission deadline

September 30, 2013 (expected) Final decisions sent to authors

Submission and Peer Review Process

To ensure consideration in the special issue, authors should note in a cover letter that their submission is for the “Special Issue on Big Data”. Detailed information for online submission to JAMIA is available via http://jamia.bmj.com.

All manuscripts will be subject to the rigorous JAMIA peer-review process. Manuscripts that are considered within scope and meet quality expectations will be typically reviewed by two experts for scientific merit. Assistance of a native English speaker is highly recommended prior to submission.

Authors should format and structure their manuscripts according to the guidelines specified at: http://jamia.bmj.com/site/about/guidelines.xhtml. Accepted articles may appear in print or in an online JAMIA issue.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Applied & Translational Genomics: From Biobanks to the Clinic

First submission expected: July 5, 2013
Submission deadline: August 23, 2013
Acceptance deadline: December 6, 2013

Bartha Maria Knoppers
Professor, Director
Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University
740 Dr. Penfield Avenue
Montreal, (Quebec) Canada
H3A 0G1
E-mail: bartha.knoppers@mcgill.ca
Tel: +1-514-398-8155
Fax: +1-514-398-8954

Ma'n H. Zawati
Academic Coordinator, Lawyer
Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University
740, Dr Penfield Avenue
Montréal (Québec) Canada
H3A 0G1
E-Mail: man.zawati@mcgill.ca
Tel.: +1-514-398-4806
Fax.: +1-514-398-8954

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Applied and Translational Genomics: Public Health Genomics: From the Science of Translation to the Science of Action

First submission expected: end July 2013
Submission deadline: December 31, 2013
Acceptance deadline: July 15, 2014

Guest editor:

Muin J. Khoury M.D., Ph.D.,
Office of Public Health Genomics, CDC
Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program, NCI
1600 Clifton Road, Mail Stop E61 Atlanta, GA 30333
Phone: 404-498-0001
Fax: 404-498-0140
E-Mail: muk1@cdc.gov
http://www.cdc.gov/genomics/

Call for Manuscripts: Genome Announcements

The American Society for Microbiology is launching a new online-only, open access journal, Genome Announcements, which will focus on reports of microbial genome sequences.  Genome Announcements will begin publishing in January 2013.

Manuscripts submitted to Genome Announcements must include an abstract, an acknowledgments section indicating the source of support for the work, and a nucleotide sequence accession number. Manuscripts are limited to 500 words (exclusive of the abstract and acknowledgments), and no text headings should be used except for "References." Sequences must be made publicly available before a submission will be considered for publication, and the nucleotide sequence accession number(s) must be provided in a separate paragraph at the end of the text. Manuscripts may not include figures, tables, or supplemental material used to present data or analysis. However, multiple related sequences and their accompanying accession numbers and URL may be presented in tabular form. Publication of Sequence Read Archives (SRAs) is not permitted.

Genome Announcements manuscripts do not require peer review, but may be reviewed at the editor's discretion. Publication of an article in Genome Announcements does not preclude a later publication (e.g., a full comparative analysis) on the same organism in another ASM journal. Genome Announcements articles will be published continuously and will be collected into bimonthly issues throughout the year.