Issue 1 of Biophysical Reports is now available at www.biophysreports.org! The Biophysical Society’s new Gold Open Access journal opened for submissions early in 2021, and thanks to eager authors and our hard-working editorial board, peer reviewers, and publications staff, we were able to publish enough articles for the first issue in a little over six months. Getting a new journal off the ground is a difficult task, and everyone involved can be proud of this accomplishment. A special thank you goes to Editor-in-Chief Jörg Enderlein for setting the tone for the journal and leading it through its early days.
The journal aims to bring together new advances in research methods, tools, and techniques in biophysics, including short contributions (Letters and Reports) with rapid turnarounds, as well as Research Articles and Reviews. It provides another option for researchers to publish their biophysics work, particularly those who are mandated to publish in open access journals.
The first articles include a very clever and powerful new method for spectrally resolved single-molecule imaging that allows for the identification and classification of individual fluorescent molecules on the basis of their emission spectrum (Jeffet et al.); an important technique for drift correction in single-molecule localization microscopy, providing a solution to a long-standing and vexing problem in wide-field super-resolution microscopy (Fazekas et al.); and a report on the recoding of membrane potentials by using fluorescent nanodiscs, a technique that could have broad applications in the biophysics of neurons (Grupi et al.).
For more information about the journal, its scope, and how to submit your work, please visit www.biophysreports.org.
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