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Saline Systems BioMedCentral Editorial Open Access Saline Systems highlights for 2005 Shiladitya DasSarma* Address: University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Center of Marine Biotechnology, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, USA Email: Shiladitya DasSarma* - dassarma@ * Corresponding author Published: 17 January 2006 Received: 15 December 2005 Accepted: 17 January 2006 Saline Systems 2006, 2:1 doi:10.1186/1746-1448-2-1 This article is available from: /content/2/1/1 ? 2006 DasSarma; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract On the 4th of July, 2005, the Saline Systems editorial group launched the new online open access journal, Saline Systems, with BioMed Central as the publisher. The scope of the journal includes both basic and applied research on halophilic organisms and saline environments, from gene systems to ecosystems. The stated goal of the journal is to meet publication needs for researchers working in coastal and inland saline environments and provide an interdisciplinary and readily accessible forum for scientists worldwide. The inaugural volume of the journal contains a significant number of high quality original research papers and reviews on a wide range of relevant topics. At the end of the launch period, from January 1, 2006 onwards, the journal will be introducing article-processing charges to cover the cost of publication. Charges will be partly or completely waived for authors from BioMed Central institutional subscribers and in cases of financial hardship. Research papers numbers of bacteria than those of inland soil samples, the numbers of halophilic bacteria per gram were nearly the same. These results suggested that halophiles may be dis- persed via dust storms or