Biological Procedures Online, an open access journal focusing on improving access to techniques and methods in the medical and biological sciences, has today published its first articles with BioMed Central.

“We are excited to inform all previous and future contributors, as well as our readers, thatBiological Procedures Onlinehas been transferred to the open access publisher BioMed Central, a powerhouse for the timely publishing of articles in online journals”, says Shulin Li, Editor-in-Chief, in hisinaugural Editorial.

Biological Procedures Onlinepublishes articles that feature step-by-step protocols that allow researchers to implement methods in "cookbook" fashion at the bench top. The journal is interested in work from innovators in the field of biology who have either successfully overcome technical challenges with existing methods, or developed new methods entirely.

The first articles published with BioMed Central include research from Jacques De Grève and colleagues on theinfluence of primer position on RNA interference assays, and Nathan O’Callaghan and Michael Fenech describe aquantitative PCR method for measuring absolute telomere length.

Biological Procedures Onlinehas been publishing for over 12 years; to access articles published prior to 2009, please seeSpringerLink. For further information aboutBiological Procedures Onlineand tosubmit a manuscript, please visit the journal’shomepageor view theinstructions for authors.