Aims and organisation
The Current Opinion journals were developed out of the recognition that specialists have increasing difficulty keeping up to date with the expanding volume of information published in their subject. In Current Opinion in Biotechnology, we help the reader by providing in a systematic manner:

1. The views of experts on current advances in biotechnology in a clear and readable form
2. Selections of the most interesting papers from the great wealth of original publications, annotated by experts.

Division of the subject into sections
The subject of biotechnology is divided into ten sections, each of which is reviewed once a year. Each issue contains one or two of the sections, and the amount of space devoted to each section is related to its importance.


Selection of topics to be reviewed
Section Editors, who are major authorities in the field, are appointed by the Editors of the journal. They divide their section into a number of topics, ensuring that the field is comprehensively covered and that all issues of current importance are emphasised. Section Editors commission reviews from authorities on each topic that they have selected.


Reviews
Authors write short review articles in which they present recent developments in their subject, emphasising the aspects that, in their opinion, are most important. In addition, they provide short annotations to the papers that they consider to be most interesting from all those published in their topic over the previous year. Papers chosen by a reviewer as being 'of special interest' or 'of outstanding interest' are clearly identified in the reference list at the end of each review.


Editorial Overview
Section Editors write a short overview at the beginning of the section to introduce the reviews and to draw the reader's attention to any particularly interesting developments.


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