DNA Damage and Repair grew from a conversation between the editors at the 1994 Radiation Research Meeting in 1994. At that time, Errol Friedberg, Graham Walker, and Wolfram Seide were just releasing the second edition of the outstanding textbook DNA Repair and Mutagenesis, and many of the human genes involved in nucleotide excision repair were being described and their connection to xeroderma pigmentosum and trichothiodystrophy was being outlined. Many of these mammalian genes had homologs in model systems and investigators were making connections between NER and transcription. This was an exciting and confusing time. Nomenclature for radiation repair genes lacked consistency and new genes (and even pathways) were being described in many organisms.
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