Phyloinformatics: new journal - call for papers - editors wanted - http://phyloinformatics.org

Dear taxonomist,

Phyloinformatics is a new, non-profit, international, peer reviewed, open access journal dedicated to publishing high quality papers on the use of informatics in taxonomy and phylogenetics. Taxonomist often need to manage fairly large amounts of data for which elegant solutions are needed. And the inference of phylogeny itself is impossible without the use of computers and optimized algorithms.

To help this emerging field of taxonomy grow, we have started Phyloinformatics. Phyloinformatics is not a regular journal: it's only available online and it's open access. Phyloinformatics offers all published papers as a free PDF download, there are no subscription or login procedures for readers and no page charges for authors. But open access means more than just free: our authors remain the copyright holders of their work. Being an online journal has lots of advantages: papers can be published very fast and are available to anyone with a computer and internet connection.

CALL FOR PAPERS Phyloinformatics is just starting now and we are looking for high quality manuscripts in one of the following two categories:

- Papers Describing new research developments in computational taxonomy, for example: new evolutionary models, algorithms, software involving new methods, taxonomic databases, proposals for new file formats and network information services, and their impact on taxonomy.

- Application Notes Short descriptions about new software or new algorithm implementations, databases and network services. The software or data should be available online as free- or donationware.

We are planning to publish our first articles before the end of 2003. Visit our site for more information on manuscript submission

EDITORS WANTED We are looking for senior taxonomists with experience in the field of phylogenetic analysis and/or taxonomic databases who would like to join the editorial board. Just send an e-mail to editor@phyloinformatics.org The editorial board will be announced on our website soon.

Apologies for any cross-postings. Sincerely,

Dennis DeGreve Editor Phyloinformatics editor@phyloinformatics.org http://phyloinformatics.org