The RNA Society: after 20 years clearly a big success
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-2200, USA
- Corresponding author: johnabelson{at}gmail.com
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This 20th anniversary of the RNA journal is a time to look back on what we have accomplished and perhaps more important to decide what is important for the future.
I won't reiterate Olke Uhlenbeck's “Imperfect Account of the Founding of the RNA Society.” You can find that account on our website. I am glad Olke wrote it down when he did because you wouldn't want the aging founders to write it now. But I do remember quite well the elements I thought we needed.
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I thought it important that we have a society journal and that the journal should be rigorous in its review of the science but should not be a magazine. We even knew then that the criteria for a Science, Nature or Cell paper were not solely that the science be rigorous but that the material be “trendy.” Of course that is much worse now than …
