It is with great pleasure that we announce the 2007 impact factor:1.735 which was released on June 18th 2008 by the Journal Citation Reports, ISI Web of Knowledge. GSE now ranks 6/47 in the Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Sciences Category and 95/132 in the Genetics & Heredity Category.

On behalf of the editorial board and EDP Sciences, we warmly congratulate all the authors, peer-reviewers and editors for this success.