On 2014 Oct 08, Elizabeth Moylan commented:

Thank you for raising this, we are investigating in accordance with COPE guidelines (http://publicationethics.org/).

Elizabeth Moylan, Biology Editor, BioMed Central.

On 2014 Oct 08, Neil Saunders commented:

A substantial fraction of the text in this article has been copied verbatim from an earlier article which it cites. This can be demonstrated by entering the article URLs - http://genomebiology.com/2010/11/3/r25 and http://www.biodatamining.org/content/7/1/15 - into this online tool. Also, the first 10 or so references are identical and in the same order.

Discussion at this Twitter thread includes images which make the similarity very apparent.

On 2014 Oct 08, Neil Saunders commented:

A substantial fraction of the text in this article has been copied verbatim from an earlier article which it cites. This can be demonstrated by entering the article URLs - http://genomebiology.com/2010/11/3/r25 and http://www.biodatamining.org/content/7/1/15 - into this online tool. Also, the first 10 or so references are identical and in the same order.

Discussion at this Twitter thread includes images which make the similarity very apparent.

On 2014 Oct 08, Elizabeth Moylan commented:

Thank you for raising this, we are investigating in accordance with COPE guidelines (http://publicationethics.org/).

Elizabeth Moylan, Biology Editor, BioMed Central.