BioMed Central launches a new journal
today,Microbial Informatics and Experimentation, under the leadership of
Editors-in-ChiefBarry WannerandMichael Wise.

“Microbial Informatics and Experimentation(MIE) is a journal about computers and microbes”, say the
co-Editors-in-Chief in
their inauguralEditorial, satisfying the need for a “new journal to fill a gap for which there is no publication avenue
that is particularly geared to computationally-oriented, strongly
biologically-motivated, pragmatic articles focused on microbes”.

As such,MIEpublishes high-quality research related to the application of
computational methods to data from microbial organisms and systems. The journal
covers a wide range of topics, from microbial systems biology to metagenomics.

MIElaunches
today with a number of interesting research articles, including a new tool for
the single nucleotide-level analysis of whole viral genome alignments (Hillaryet al.), computational analysis of
the regulatory network ofP. aeruginosa
(Galan-Vasquezet al.), and a method to predict metabolomic
turnover in metagenomic datasets (Larsenet
al.).

In a Letter to the Editor,Gilbertet al.also highlight the importance of
metagenomics surveys in the rapidly evolving science of microbial ecology. The
study of metagenomes, genetic material isolated directly from the environment,
can provide a wealth of information, allowing the functional and taxonomic analysis
of microbial communities in ecosystems.

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