Those authoring bioinformatics articles are likely to be more ‘internet-savvy’ and more participative in online institutions like Nature Precedings. The bioinformatics category has the most number of articles in Nature Precedings. Below is the result of an automated analysis of these articles. Compare with the result for mol. cell bio. articles.

ROUGH ANALYSIS OF ‘Nature Precedings’ ARTICLES IN CATEGORY ‘bioinformatics’ AS ON March 16, 2008, 3:17 pm EST

ARTICLES

• All: 99
• Manuscripts: 65
• Other (posters/presentations): 34

DAYS

• Total: 273
• Avg. (all): 2.8
• Avg. (manuscript): 4.2
• Avg. (other): 8
• Avg. (range) between submission and acceptance (all): 3.5 (0-35)
• Avg. (range) between submission and acceptance (manuscript): 4.1 (0-35)
• Avg. (range) between submission and acceptance (other): 2.1 (0-8)

AUTHORS

• Total: 287
• Avg. (range) (all): 3.7 (1-51)
• Avg. (range) (manuscript): 4.2 (1-51)
• Avg. (range) (other): 2.9 (1-14)
• With >1 article (all): Diego Mauricio Riaño-Pachón, 3; Konrad U. Foerstner, 3; Cameron Neylon, 2; Wei Zhang, 2; Jean-Claude Bradley, 2; Ravi Iyengar, 3; Michael Hucka, 4; Sarah M. Keating, 2; Jayapal J. Manikandan, 4; Alirio Jose Melendez, 2; Peter Natesan Pushparaj, 3; Bernd Mueller-Roeber, 2; Marie Loh, 2; Adrian Mondry, 2; Roderic Page, 3; Henry L. Niman, 4; Magdi D. Saad, 2; Jeffery Tjaden, 2; Kenneth C. Earhart, 2; Marshall R. Monteville, 2; Mona M. Aly, 2; Moustafa M. Mansour, 2; Bruce R. Boynton, 3; Kailash C. Upadhyaya, 2; Sebastian Bassi, 2; Heather A. Piwowar, 2; Ilya Shmulevich, 2; Avi Ma’ayan, 2; Pedro Beltrao, 3; James C. Paulson, 2;

AFFILIATIONS

• Total: 166
• Avg. (range) (all): 2 (1-23)
• Avg. (range) (manuscript): 2.3 (1-23)
• Avg. (range) (other): 1.3 (1-5)
• Avg. no. of authors (all): 1.7
• With >1 article (all): European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, 3; Stanford University, 2; STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, 2; Drexel University, 2; Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 2; Department of Physiology, National University of Singapore, 4; Bioinformatics Institute, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, 2; Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2; DEEB, IBLS, University of Glasgow, 3; Recombinomics, Inc, 3; Central Laboratory for Veterinary Quality Control, Giza, 2; Ministry of Health, Arabic Republic of Egypt, 2; Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-67, 2; Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 2; University of Pittsburgh, 2; Institute for Systems Biology, 2; EMBL-Heidelberg, 3; Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, 2; BNMC, California Institute of Technology, 3; The Scripps Research Instiute, 3;

TAGS

• Total: 330
• Avg. (range) (all): 4.3 (1-11)
• Avg. (range) (manuscript): 4.4 (1-11)
• Avg. (range) (other): 4.1 (1-10)
• With >1 article (all): NMR, 2; database, 3; Plants, 3; open access, 3; open science, 5; open source, 2; proposal, 3; p18, 2; This document has not been tagged., 2; malaria, 2; epidemiology, 2; Open data, 2; data, 2; protein interactions, 2; phylogenetics, 2; prediction, 3; Semantic Web, 2; DNA, 2; networks, 4; modeling, 3; transcription factor regulation, 2; microarray, 4; BioPax, 2; statistics, 2; docking, 2; systems biology, 6; SBML, 6; pathway, 2; transcription factors, 3; chemoinformatics, 2; databases, 3; mast cells, 2; gene expression profile, 2; oligonucleotide microarray, 2; neuroinformatics, 2; phylogeny, 2; algorithm, 2; Recombination, 4; Vaccine, 2; Evolution, 5; Polymorphisms, 2; Influenza, 4; Genetics, 3; H5N1, 3; Cicer arietinum, 2; bioinformatics, 3; sharing, 2; microarrays, 2; XML, 5; graph theory, 2; structured data formats, 3; standards, 3; modelling, 4; glycomics, 3; CFG, 2;

SUBJECTS

• Total: 13
• Avg. (range) (all): 2.5 (1-6)
• Avg. (range) (manuscript): 2.6 (1-6)
• Avg. (range) (other): 2.3 (1-5)
• Other than bioinformatics with >10 articles: Biotechnology, 27; Chemistry, 10; Genetics, 20; Molecular Cell Biology, 24; Evolution and Ecology, 21; Pharmacology, 10;

SIZE (MB)

• Avg. (range) (all): 1.5 (0.011-13.7)
• Avg. (range) (manuscript): 0.8 (0.011-10.6)
• Avg. (range) (other): 2.8 (0.049-13.7)

VOTES

• Avg. (range) (all): 3.5 (0-35)
• Avg. (range) (manuscript): 4.1 (0-35)
• Avg. (range) (other): 2.1 (0-8)

COMMENTS

• Avg. (range) (all): 0.7 (0-8)
• Avg. (range) (manuscript): 0.8 (0-8)
• Avg. (range) (other): 0.5 (0-6)

OTHER Nature Precedings VERSIONS

• Avg. (range) (all): 0.1 (0-2)
• Avg. (range) (manuscript): 0.2 (0-2)
• Avg. (range) (other): 0.1 (0-2)
• Avg. (range) days between 1st and 2nd versions (all): 5.1 (1-168)
• Avg. (range) days between 1st and 2nd versions (manuscript): 7.7 (1-168)
• Avg. (range) days between 1st and 2nd versions (other): 0 (1-1)

NON-Nature Precedings VERSIONS

• Fraction (all): 0.1
• Fraction (manuscript): 0.1
• Fraction (other): 0.1