Dr Carels is the author of Classifying coding DNA with nucleotide statistics and Universal Features for the Classification of Coding and Non-coding DNA Sequences which were recently published in Bioinformatics and Biology Insights.

The Editor in Chief of Bioinformatics and Biology Insights recently issued a call for papers.

Please describe your experience with Libertas Academica:

In my experience, Libertas Academica combines professional publication standards with efficiency and speed in manuscript managment. The staff dedicates exceptional attention to authors’ concerns. Manuscripts are processed straightforward, which is in line with what we should expect from science sharing.

What is the primary focus of your research?

The primary focus of my research is the integration of the various aspects of genomics with biological applications such as new drug development.

What are the most exciting developments arising from current research in your area?

I guess that the most exciting development at the moment is the ongoing science integration. This integration is placing scientific areas such as biology, mathematics, electronics, material sciences etc. together while these were traditionally apart. A very exciting new frontier to overcome is for sure the alliance between electronics and biology, in particular the development of interfaces between electronics and nervous system.

Who are your main collaborators? Please describe your work with them.

I am working at FIOCRUZ a public institution for human health whose primary focus is parasitology. I am working within the philosophical framework of Dr. Carlos Morel and his collaborators, I aim to contribute to what is called: the Chemogenomics.

How did you come to be working in your research area?

I started as an agronomist and went successively through phytopathology, plant genetic mapping, genome organization and transcriptome investigations. Now I am starting to look at relationships between genomes and their environment taking pharmaceutical concerns into consideration.

What do you think about the development of open access publishing? What motivated you to do so?

Science production is the exercice of (i) making associations between ideas and facts, (ii) experiencing intuitions and (iii) describing reproducible and significant differences. Science products are valuable. For these reasons, I believe that science must be open access. In my opinion, the best science is free. Science is a humanity investment. The excercice of making science is a complex issue that depends on broad indirect participation. The price is high and the return must be given to everybody. This is the best way to make it sustainable and largely accepted.

What articles and/or books have you published recently?

In 2009, I published:

• Carels, N. and Frias, D. (2009) Classifying coding DNA with nucleotide statistics. Bioinformatics and Biology Insights 3, 141-154.

• Carels, N., Vidal, R. and Frias, D. (2009) Universal Features for the Classification of Coding and Non-coding DNA Sequences. Bioinformatics and Biology Insights 3, 37-49.

• Carels, N. (2009) Jatropha curcas: A Review. In: Kader, J.C. and Delseny, M. (Eds.). Advances in Botanical Research 50, 39-86.

• Lima, L.S., Gramacho, K.P., Carels, N., Novais, R., Gaiotto, F.A., Lopes, U.V., Gesteira, A.S., Zaidan, H.A., Cascardo, J.C.M., Pires, J.L. and Micheli, F. (2009) Single nucleotide polymorphisms from Theobroma cacao expressed sequence tags associated with witches broom disease in cacao. Genetics and Molecular Research 8, 799-808.

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