Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The goal of SIGS is to serve as an open-access, standards-supportive publication for rapid dissemination of concise genome and metagenome reports that comply with the emerging MIGS/MIMS standards, detailed standard operating procedures, meeting reports, reviews and commentaries, data policies, white papers and other gray literature that is relevant to genome sciences but currently absent from the scholarly literature.

 

Section Policies

Genome Report

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Standard Operating Procedure

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Community Dialog

This section is reserved for meeting reports and other announcements of interest to the broad 'omics community.  

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White Paper

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Research Article

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Editorial/Commentary

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Errata

This section will consist of errata that correct mistakes that have appeared in print.

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Peer Review Process

Articles published in SIGS undergo an accelerated peer review. Authors interested in contributing to the journal are encouraged to contact the editorial office in advance of submission to discuss the requirements of articles so as to expedite publication. Descriptions of genomes and metagenomes that are submitted for publication as Genome Reports or Metagenome Reports comply with the Minimum Information for Genome Standards or Minimum Information for Metagenome Standards as described in the MIGS Standards (Nat Biotechnol. 2008 May;26(5):541-7).

 

Publication Frequency

Standards in Genomic Sciences publishes on a bimonthly schedule. New issues publish on or about the 20th day of January, March, May, July, September, and November.  Additional articles will be published in each issue through the last day of the following month, on acceptance.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 


Acknowledgements

We would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of many members of the Genomic Standards Consortium, the broader genomic science community, and those who have indicated their willingness to serve as editors, reviewers and contributors.

Funding for SIGS is provided by a grant from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies at Michigan State University, the Michigan State University Foundation, and the US Department of Energy Biological and Environmental Research DE-FG02-08ER64707.

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