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Research is a necessity for the Middle Eastern countries currently growing their knowledge economies, and it is the key to their achieving autonomous control of their people's healthcare. To sustain knowledge growth, policymakers need to learn to trust researchers while also insisting upon evidence for the advice they get from them.
The journal publishes papers from a very broad geographical catchment, and we invite peer referees from among the world's best genetics researchers in order to attract and publish papers of a uniformly high standard. We need to do more to recruit outstanding referees from under-represented regions.
Systems models and biomarker studies both pose the problem of wrangling high information content. Such publications can be made easier to review and to use if they propose explicit alternative hypotheses and show experimental exclusion of each competing explanation. In practice, we will need to be able to identify and independently cite multiple hypotheses and related experiments within a published work.
Data worthy of integration with the results of other researchers need to be prepared to explicit export standards, linked to appropriate metadata and offered with field-specific caveats for use. Data exchange may need to be taught and discussed in handshaking workshops.