Farewell, Neuroinformatics!

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It is with a bittersweet feeling that we pen one last Editorial after almost exactly two decades since founding this journal. The original publisher of Neuroinformatics was Humana Press, a small (for today’s standards, at least) and back then independent publishing company best known at that time for its Methods in Molecular Biology book series. Humana’s president, Thomas Lanigan Sr., together with his energetic aid Elyse O’Grady, had a distinct knack for predicting the emergence of new fields in biomedical research and ran a professional yet personable, family-style operation (the first marketing director of Neuroinformatics was Lanigan’s son, Tom Jr.). We finalized the aims of the journal in the fall of 2001, endeavoring to provide a forum that would emphasize data analysis, integration, engineering, and sharing in all areas of neuroscience research.¹ Submissions began to arrive in April of the following year, and the inaugural issue appeared at the 2002 Society for Neuroscience Meeting. Since then, we action edited over 1500 initial manuscripts and eventually accepted for publication approximately half of them, the vast majority describing original research. …