Editors-in-Chief
Janet Kelso
Alfonso Valencia
About the journal
The leading journal in its field, Bioinformatics publishes the highest quality scientific papers and review articles of interest to academic and industrial researchers. Its main focus is on new developments in genome bioinformatics and computational biology…
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- Manuscript types
- Review processes
- Open access options
- Manuscript preparation
Format free submissions
At first submission, Bioinformatics authors are no longer required to format their manuscript according to journal guidelines.
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International Society for Computational Biology
Bioinformatics is an official journal of the International Society for Computational Biology, the leading professional society for computational biology and bioinformatics. Members of the society receive a 15% discount on article processing charges when publishing Open Access in the journal.
Bioinformatics and Publons
Bioinformatics is part of a trial with Publons to recognise our expert peer reviewers and raise the status of peer review.
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