The growth of bioinformatics

Briefings in Bioinformatics, or BiB for short, will celebrateits 7th anniversary this year. The journal's mission has remainedunchanged throughout this period: we are committed to disseminatingknowledge on databases and computational tools for life sciencesthrough review articles. During its history, some 250 articleshave been published and they have been cited more than 2700times, making BiB the premier bioinformatics journal using theper-article citation impact measure. The common theme for thisissue is the cross-disciplinary nature of bioinformatics