✍ Scribed by Lee A. Segel
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This issue is the first of the 50th Anniversary Year of the Bulletin. Readers will notice a number of changes and additions compared to years past. The cover has been redesigned in an attempt to project a more elegant image, and a change of the decorative colour to red perhaps signifies "leftward" leanings.
Inside the cover appears an almost entirely new list of Associate Editors, together with editors of new or almost new departments. These departments are indeed beginning to function, with special strength already evinced in literate and thought-provoking book reviews. Now appearing or soon to appear are the first contributions to the new Forum and initial listings in the ,Software Survey Section. As editor I have already noticed an improvement in submitted papers as authors begin to appreciate our purpose of reporting on high quality investigations at or near the interface of theoretical and experimental biology.
In an attempt to enhance the Bulletin's interdisciplinary character, new instructions appear in the "Specifications for Manuscripts" section (inside back cover). These require future papers to introduce their topic and to state their conclusions in a widely accessible manner.
Major plans are beginning to gel concerning special issues. We hope to arrange, or participate in, meetings that will give rise to special issues of the Bulletin. Such issues can also be organized independently of any meetings. These publications will aim to describe a portion of the biological theory-experiment interface in a manner that is accessible to a wide audience. We hope that these issues will also be available in the form of inexpensive books. Efforts in this direction have already begun in at least three areas, but we welcome further suggestions.
Nicholas Rashevsky founded the Bulletin half a century ago, and Pergamon Press began forty years ago. As users of a base 10 system of numerals, we are especially induced to look backward and forward at such a time of anniversaries. In the past decades theoretical biology has matured a great deal. Publishing techniques have become more sophisticated. We hope to exploit advances in the nature of our subject, and in the means for presenting it, to continue to improve the Bulletin.
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