It is giving me immense pleasure and honor to assume the duties of editor-in-chief of Current Trends in OMICS (CTO) a bi-annual peer-reviewed journal. I am grateful to the administration of the University of Management and Technology, Lahore as they trusted my editorial abilities. I believe together we can contribute to improve the living standards of the people by bridging the sciences like, Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Metabolomics, and Meta-genomics.

This journal started its journey back in 2021 and due to fervent nature of different stake holders it got Y-category from higher education commission (HEC) of Pakistan during 2023. We believe that with your trust and cooperation CTO can contribute to at least three sustainable development of United Nations by ensuring the good health and well-being, zero hunger and ultimately to no poverty. Moreover, CTO has transparent system of peer-review process to ensure the quality of journal. Likewise, the journal is following the recommendation of Vancouver guidelines presented by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors to understand the roles and responsibilities of authors, contributors, reviewers, editors, publishers and owners. Also, we are trying to expedite the publication process by maintaining the scientific honesty and integrity.  Additionally we also have a devoted team of language editing. This journal also welcomes the calls for the special issues in different areas of OMICS.

I on behalf of editors welcome the scientific community to contribute their research articles, mini or normal review articles, commentary, opinion papers etc. in CTO. Moreover, we also welcome the comments and suggestions for the improvement of CTO.  I assure you a good experience by publishing with CTO.

Thank you.

Dr. Sajid Shokat

Editor-in-Chief, CTO