eScience today and tomorrow

This special issue contains extended versions of many of the top papers from the 10th IEEE International eScience Conference (eScience 2014), held in October 2014 in Guaruja, Brazil. The authors of strongly reviewed papers published in that conference were invited to extend their papers, which then went through a second peer review. This special issue contains the first set (seven) of the extended papers selected as the result of this review. Part 2, with three additional extended papers, will follow in a future issue of FGCS. eScience requires simultaneous advances in infrastructure and applications.Such advances are happening rapidly, and have been presented at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on eScience.This special issue highlights some of these advances, and the science they enable.