Victor Jongeneel, director of High-Performance Biological Computing (HPCBio), has been appointed to the PubMed Central Advisory Committee of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The committee advises the NIH on the content and operation of the PubMed Central repository, and also establishes criteria to certify groups submitting materials to the system, monitors the operation of the system, and ensures that PubMed Central evolves and remains responsive to the needs of researchers, publishers, librarians and the general public.