The Scientist's April 12, 2004 issue will introduce a new, scientist-written column to its Research section entitled Research Vision. The column will feature renowned researchers writing firsthand about his or her experiments providing both a view into the scientific process, and a forecast for the applications of their work in the future.
"Up until now our articles been written solely by professional journalists," Richard Gallagher, editor of The Scientist, writes in his editorial column appearing in the issue. "Research Vision will provide a contrast: personal viewpoints from researchers working at the leading edges of science."
The inaugural Research Vision article is written by Matthias Mann, director of the Center for Experimental BioInformatics at the University of Southern Denmark. In his article, Mann discusses his work in organellar proteomics, particularly his attempt to assign functions to proteins by defining their location in the cell and the organelles with which they're most ...