Dear readers of the Hacettepe Journal of Biology and Chemistry,

As I begin my sixth year as a Chief Editor of Hacettepe Journal of Biology and Chemistry, it is a great pleasure to greet our readers in this journal once again and to update you on what has happened in five years. 

Dear readers of the Hacettepe Journal of Biology and Chemistry,

As I begin my sixth year as a Chief Editor of Hacettepe Journal of Biology and Chemistry, it is a great pleasure to greet our readers in this journal once again and to update you on what has happened in five years.

We have published 193 articles in Hacettepe Journal of Biology and Chemistry between 2007 and 2011 with an increasing number of submissions. The contributors were from different national universities, different governmental and special foundations and we also had manuscript submissions from Italy, Kazakhstan, Syria, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, India, Lebanon, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Czech Republic, USA and China. We would like to thank all the authors for choosing our journal as a media for sharing their scientific results. With these words I welcome you to the 1st issue of the year 2012 and I would like to invite you to submit your next manuscript to Hacettepe Journal of Biology and Chemistry.

Adil Denizli, PhD

Editor