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      Instructions to Authors: Introduction

*/GENOME RESEARCH/* welcomes high-quality research papers presenting
novel data on the topics of gene discovery, comparative genome analyses,
molecular and human evolution, informatics, genome structure and
function, proteomics, technological innovations and applications,
statistical and mathematical methods, cutting-edge genetic and physical
mapping and DNA sequencing, systems biology and other reports that
present data where sequence information is used to address biological
concerns. New data in these areas are published as Research papers in
the form of Articles and Letters, or Methods and Resource reports that
provide novel information on methodologies or resources that will be of
interest to a broad readership. Complete data sets are presented
electronically on the journal's Web site where appropriate. The journal
also publishes Review articles, Commentaries, Perspectives, and
Insight/Outlook articles. All submissions to the journal undergo an
initial editorial review. Those selected by the Editor as suitable for
the scope and aims of the journal are peer-reviewed.

Publication time from acceptance of manuscript is approximately two
months. For papers accepted subject to revision, only one revised
version will be considered; it should be submitted within two months of
the provisional acceptance.

The journal only accepts papers that present original research that has
not been published previously. Submission to the journal implies that
another journal or book is not currently considering the paper.
Submitted manuscripts must not be posted on any web site and are subject
to press embargo.

*Material and Data Release Policy for papers published in /Genome
Research/*
Researchers who submit papers to this journal should be prepared to make
available to researchers all materials needed to duplicate their work.
(Note, making material available is meant to be within reason, given the
limited supply of some reagents, etc.) If materials, such as clone
collections and other resources, are held in repositories or if a
distribution agreement has been made with a company, distributor name
and location should be included in the manuscript.

/Genome Research/ encourages all data producers to make their data as
freely accessible as possible prior to publication. Open data resources
/accompanied by/ fair use will serve to greatly enhance the scientific
quality of work by the entire community and for society at large.

Data from a publication must be easily available to the broader
community in publicly held databases when available, and at the /Genome
Research/ Web site, and if desired at the author's Web site, when they
are not. /Genome Research/ will NOT consider manuscripts where data used
in the paper is not freely available on either a publicly held Web site
or, in the absence of such a Web site, on the /Genome Research/ Web
site. There are NO exceptions. (For details on Web sites for data
submission, see Web Site References
<http://www.genome.org/misc/ifora_mspreparation.shtml>. Authors
submitting papers whose main purpose is to describe or present a new
computer program or algorithm should be prepared to make either the
source code or a downloadable program freely available. Accession
numbers for data should be available by the page proof stage.

*Fair Use and Acknowledgment of Data Resources*
For acknowledging data obtained from publicly held databases, accession
numbers for all such data must be included where appropriate in the text
or tables of the manuscript, and the Web site should be placed in the
text and in the Web Site References section. For use of publicly held
data, /Genome Research/ follows the guidelines for fair use of community
resource data as detailed in the publication produced from the Fort
Lauderdale Meeting, 2003 <http://www.genome.gov/10506537>. Use of such
data requires the material be cited with Web site and accession numbers
as described above, and in cases where a large amount of unpublished
information is used from one lab or center, authors should appropriately
cite the laboratory or center that produced this information in
conjunction with the publicly held site where the data were obtained.
/Genome Research/ encourages data users to embrace the spirit of the
Fort Lauderdale, 2003, agreement by using this material in creative new
ways rather than producing early and incomplete versions of the
producers' aims; the Editors will be considering material in this light.

When using data from a laboratory's or center's private Web site, the
laboratory or center should be contacted for permission and the Web site
should be placed in the text AND in the references, appropriately
denoting it as a source of reference material for this work. Clones from
centers must be cited by the names associated with the center's
nomenclature, which is approved nomenclature.

In any instance where individuals have contributed more than just
standard data release information, these individuals should be
contacted, shown the manuscript, and their status on the paper (whether
they prefer authorship or not) determined prior to submission.

*Papers should be submitted to*:

Hillary E. Sussman, Ph.D.
Executive Editor
Genome Research
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press <http://www.cshlpress.com/>
One Bungtown Road
Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724
e-mail: hsussman@cshl.edu <mailto:hsussman@cshl.edu>
Tel: (516) 422-4012; Fax: (516) 422-4092

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