BMC Research Notes is an open access journal publishing scientifically sound research across all fields of biology and medicine, enabling authors to publish updates to previous research, software tools and databases, data sets, small-scale clinical studies, and reports of confirmatory or 'negative' results. Additionally the journal welcomes descriptions of incremental improvements to methods as well as short correspondence items and hypotheses.

A key objective of BMC Research Notes is to ensure that associated data files will, wherever possible, be published in standard, reusable formats and are exposed to ensure that they are searchable and easily harvested for reuse. We are working with researchers across the full spectrum of biomedical research to define appropriate recommendations for domain-specific data file standards, and we aim to provide detailed 'Additional data file' preparation guidelines, to complement our current detailed figure preparation guidelines.

BMC Research Notes provides a home for short publications, case series, incremental updates to previous work, results of individual experiments and similar material that currently lacks a suitable outlet. The intention is to reduce the loss suffered by the research community when such results remain unpublished. Submissions are fully peer-reviewed, and will be handled by an international board of academic Associate Editors spanning all biological and medical disciplines.

We are looking for enthusiastic researchers who would like to have an editorial involvement with BMC Research Notes. We are particularly keen to hear from researchers who have a special interest in data sharing and data format standardization.

Submit your manuscript now via our online submission system. For more information about the journal, contact researchnotes@biomedcentral.com. BMC Research Notes (ISSN 1756-0500) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, CAS and Google Scholar.