Present at the creation
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-2200, USA
- Corresponding author: christineguthrie{at}gmail.com
This extract was created in the absence of an abstract.
The spliceosome was in its heyday … the ribosome not yet proven to be a ribozyme … microRNAs, lncRNAs, et al. lurking out of sight.
The survivors of previous RNA processing get-togethers (starting in 1974 at Brookhaven), gathering in Keystone in 1994, speculated that since there was a (financially successful and media-savvy) Protein Society, why not RNA? And if an RNA Society, why not an RNA journal? Key to the journal's success was getting buy-in from the RNA community at large to serve on its Editorial Board and agreeing to a high set of standards for manuscript acceptance. We prided ourselves on being a cooperative and collaborative group (in contrast to others that we could—and frequently did—name) and especially encouraged the participation of our young colleagues.
In the ensuing years, the Society and the journal have flourished. With the discovery of vast new repertoires of non-coding RNAs, even folks who …
