SAGE and Egypt-based publisher Hindawi formed a partnership last year and launched an online open-access journal 'Human Genomics and Proteomics.' The journal is affiliated with a database called FINDbase. The online open-access journal will serve as a forum for research on human genomics and proteomics, systems biology, and personalized medicine. Editors-in-Chief of the journal, George Patrinos and Emanuel Petricoin, suggested the topic for the journal because the open-access model is an established business model in the genomics field. Moreover, they also suggested that the new open-access journal be affiliated with a database. Patrinos had helped to create FINDbase, the national/ethnic mutation database. The database records frequencies of causative mutations that give rise to hereditary disorders in varied populations worldwide. Patrinos wanted to link an online open-access journal to the database and SAGE-Hindawi supported the idea. The journal-database link will help disseminate genomics datasets supporting open-access journal articles online. In this regard, the association with the open-access journal may prove beneficial. Authors of datasets selected by FINDbase will write an abstract, which will be published in a dedicated section of the journal 'FINDbase datasets' and will be reviewed by peers. If the journal is accepted by PubMed/Medline, then the data will be included against a PubMed ID. With the database-journal from SAGE-Hindawi linking open-access and research data, FINDbase may become the main repository in its domain with time. The online open-access journal publishes research articles at a specific article-processing charge.