Editorial

<正>As 2013 has been wrapped up and a prosperous year of2014 is coming,I would like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation to all editorial board members,authors reviewers and readers for their great and generous support to Journal of Genetics and Genomics(JGG)over the past years Meanwhile,I also like to share with you some of the journal’s     

发刊词

I am indeed very honored and delighted when Prof.Pingkai Ouyang asked me to write a preface article forthe new Chinese Journal of Bioprocess Engineering. Although,as a chemical engineer,I have been working in the petroleum and chemical industries for fortyyears,I did have the opportunity of conducting research and development work in the field of biotechnology forseveral years.My research was in both biochemical and biomedical areas.Because of this experience,I appre-ciate very much the importance of biotechnology and bioprocessing.Being familiar with this field,I feel the ex-citement and high anticipation about this new Journal.I wish to offer to Prof.Ouyang and his staff editors my     

新起点，新态势 —— 《中国科学：生命科学》2010年述评

The year 2010 marks the sixtieth anniversary for the publication of Science in China series journals,and meanwhile the Science in China Series C: Life Sciences took a new name as Science China Life Sciences(SCLS in short).Simultaneously,it has been reformed to make a new start for this journal in its long history.The journal has appeared with a new face to the readers and authors in both the novel publishing style and the highly qualified articles.An extensive review was given to the journal’s specific progress in the year 2010 by highlighting some of the representative publications.     

Growing and evolving: remarks for the 35th anniversary of the founding of Zoological Research

The beginning of a new year is always a time for reflection,contemplation and optimism.For the past thirty-five years,since its founding in 1980,Zoological Research (ZR) has experienced many highs and lows,seeing great advances but also overcoming numerous hurdles.Zoological Research has made many valuable contributions to the progress of biological sciences in China and won prestige both at home and abroad.Currently,it serves as a key journal focusing on Genome Evolution and Genetic Diversity,Animal Ecology and Ethology,Primates and Animal Models of Human Diseases.The journal also publishes high quality papers related to taxonomy and DNA barcoding,developmental biology,physiology,biochemistry,immunology,and neuroscience.The growth achieved by ZR is not only due to our excellent readers and reviewers,but also to the evolution of our authors into renowned scholars.Accordingly,we would like to thank you all for your constant support and generous help.     

千针万线草—新环肽(英文)

From the roots of Stellarta yunnanensis Diels a new cyclic peptide has been isolated. On the basis of spectral analyses and chemical methods one of them has been determined to be a cycloheptapeptide and named stellarin A. The structure is cyclo[-Gly-Gly-Pro-Gly-Pro-Tyr-Tyr-].     

A novel method for N-terminal acetylation prediction

The NetAcet method has been developed to make predictions of N-terminal acetylation sites, but more information of the data set could be utilized to improve the performance of the model. By employing a new way to extract patterns from sequences and using a sample balancing mechanism, we obtained a correlation coefficient of 0.85, and a sensitivity of 93% on an independent mammalian data set. A web server utilizing this method has been constructed and is available at http://166.111.24.5/acetylation.html.     

Nanozymes: an emerging field bridging nanotechnology and enzymology

<正>Nanozyme,a class of nanomaterials with intrinsic enzymelike properties,is a new concept which has been included in the Encyclopedia of China and the textbook of enzyme engineering.Since the first evidence published in 2007 (Gao et al.,2007),great progress has been achieved in the study of nanozyme from new concept,new material to its new application,and it becomes an emerging field bridging nanotechnology and biology (Gao and Yan,2016).Nanozymes,like natural enzymes,can effectively catalyze the conversion     

Recent Progress Using High-throughput Sequencing Technologies in Plant Molecular Breeding

High-throughput sequencing is a revolutionary technological innovation in DNA sequencing.This technology has an ultra-low cost per base of sequencing and an overwhelmingly high data output.High-throughput sequencing has brought novel research methods and solutions to the research fields of genomics and post-genomics.Furthermore,this technology is leading to a new molecular breeding revolution that has landmark significance for scientific research and enables us to launch multi-level,multi-faceted,and multi-extent studies in the fields of crop genetics,genomics,and crop breeding.In this paper,we review progress in the application of high-throughput sequencing technologies to plant molecular breeding studies.     

Biased ligand bonds to make right calls—laboratory of signal transduction reveals molecular mechanism for functional selectivity of GPCR

<正>In a recent study,Professor Rui-Ping Xiao and her research group at Institute of Molecular Medicine of Peking University has provided an essential experimental evidence to support the new paradigm of functional selectivity for G protein-coupled receptor(GPCR)signal transduction.The study was published online on May 15 in The Journal of Biological Chemistry[1].The GPCR superfamily,a class of membrane proteins