The Bio-protocol Advisory Board includes editors from some of our partner journals, as well as some of Bio-protocol's reviewers and authors. Its mission is to guide Bio-protocol to best serve the life science research community and its mission of freely and openly sharing experimentally validated and reproducible protocols. Bio-protocol staff meet with these advisors once or twice each year to discuss Bio-protocol's progress; editorial challenges, if any; new initiatives and progress on existing initiatives; challenges seen by our advisors; and the business model of Bio-protocol and how this is evolving. We also welcome feedback and suggestions from our advisors throughout the year.