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The GSA Journals are constantly evolving and growing to meet the needs of our genetics and genomics community. G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, in an effort to further improve the author experience and welcome even more dynamic research, is expanding its current reports as well as offering a new article type. These reports provide succinct and structured templates designed to make it fast and easy for authors to efficiently submit their work, for peer reviewers to quickly assess, and for readers and researchers to easily comprehend the science and access the data and results. We hope you’ll consider G3 when searching for a home for your research! 

Genetic Screen Reports

(formerly Mutant Screen Reports)

What are these article types?

Genetic Screen Reports provide a home for large-scale, unbiased screening studies that uncover functions of genes and regulatory regions across the genome. These reports may include classical genetic screens, phenotypic screens, massively parallel reporter assays, QTL studies, GWAS, enhancer screens, and other approaches designed to identify genomic function.

Why are they important?

Large-scale screens often require years of work and generate important discoveries on their own. Yet these datasets are frequently delayed in publication while follow-up mechanistic studies continue.

Genetic Screen Reports help solve that problem by allowing timely publication of foundational screening results, ensuring that high-value findings reach the community sooner. They also provide peer review of screen design, controls, and methodology while creating standardized reports that support reuse and future aggregation.

These reports are relevant far beyond a single organism or system. A screen performed in Drosophila, for example, may be highly valuable to researchers studying the same biological process in other species.

Why submit?

In addition to getting the results of a screen out to the community quickly and efficiently, publishing a Genetic Screen Report gives appropriate credit to the students, postdocs, and teams who performed the demanding initial screen work. It also ensures the broader research community can build on those results immediately.

G3 is one of the few journals actively committed to this type of contribution.

Software and Workflow Reports

(formerly Software and Data Resources)

What are these article types?

Software and Workflow Reports highlight tools, pipelines, and reproducible workflows that help researchers analyze gene- and genome-scale data.

This includes resources for population genomics, transcriptomics, metagenomics, genome assembly, variant calling, normalization, visualization, differential expression, phylogenetics, and more.

Why are they important?

Many genomic analyses are difficult—or impossible—to reproduce without clearly documented workflows. Researchers often spend time rebuilding pipelines, troubleshooting preventable errors, or reinventing methods that already exist elsewhere.

These reports address a major need in the field by promoting reproducibility, transparency, and community standards for genomic analysis.

Why submit?

G3 offers a distinct advantage: these reports are designed for people who actually use the tools, not just the developers. Because G3 reaches geneticists and genomicists broadly, published tools gain visibility among the scientists who need them most.

These papers clearly explain who should use the resource, when to use it, and how it advances research.

Molecular Method Reports

(new article type)

What are these article types?

Molecular Methods will publish new experimental tools, protocols, and technologies that enable cutting-edge molecular research.

Examples include validated new techniques, adaptations of existing tools for new organisms, improved delivery systems, screening technologies, and practical protocols that make methods accessible to other laboratories.

Why are they important?

Developing a new tool often takes years of optimization and validation. Yet many journals prioritize biological findings over the methods that made those discoveries possible.

This format recognizes that tool development is itself a major scientific contribution.

This type of report is especially valuable for extending methods across the tree of life—for example, adapting a tool developed in a classic model organism for use in emerging systems or applied species.

Why submit?

Publishing a Molecular Method Report gives researchers deserved credit for technical innovation and shares protocols other scientists can implement right away.

G3 provides expert peer review focused on rigor, validation, and real-world utility, so you can be sure your article will be impactful.

Genome Reports

What are these article types?

Genome Reports publish high-quality genome assemblies and other genomic resources paired with biological context and analysis.

These reports serve researchers across basic, agricultural, biomedical, and evolutionary sciences.

Why are they important?

As genome assembly becomes more accessible, quality assessment, annotation standards, and public availability are even more critical.

Genome Reports ensure that new resources are carefully evaluated, openly shared, and scientifically contextualized.They also allow researchers to publish important resources promptly, rather than waiting years for larger comparative studies.

Why submit?

G3 has built a strong reputation for its Genome Reports, which receive thoughtful review and reach an audience ready to use these resources.

We especially welcome submissions spanning all branches of the tree of life.

Omics Reports

What are these article types?

Omics Reports feature well-curated, interpretable large-scale datasets that explore biological questions through genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and other systems-level approaches.

Examples include RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, proteomics studies, metabolomics datasets, GWAS, and comparative multi-omics analyses.

Why are they important?

Many valuable omics studies generate strong datasets but do not fit traditional hypothesis-driven publishing models or include extensive mechanistic follow-up.

This format provides a home for rigorous datasets that promote and support reuse, comparative studies, meta-analyses, and future discovery.

Why submit?

G3 is already trusted for publishing high-quality genomic resources and data-rich studies. Omics Reports build on that legacy with clear author guidelines, streamlined submission, and alignment with FAIR data principles.

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