About the journal
Biology Methods & Protocols publishes papers presenting or using new or improved methods in biological sciences, biomedicine, pre-clinical and translational research. The journal also publishes review papers devoted to methods used in these fields. It primarily publishes in the areas of genetics and heredity, biochemistry, molecular biology, physiology, ecology, evolutionary biology, marine and freshwater biology, cell biology and medicine. This includes but is not limited to genome research, genome bioinformatics, computational biology, human molecular genetics, GWAS, developmental genetics, cancer genetics, neurogenetics, therapy of genetic disease, nucleic acids and proteins, gene regulation, chromatin and epigenetics, RNA and structural biology, protein-nucleic acid interaction, recombinant DNA expression, microarray technology, ribosomes and protein translation, targeted gene modification, plant and animal ecology, and plant and animal evolution.
Biology Methods & Protocols encourages papers describing novel software. Such papers should describe the software and one application of it. We encourage authors to make their code available wherever possible.
The journal publishes the following article types: Methods Articles; Review Articles; Opinion Articles; Innovations; Protocols Articles; Pre-registered Study Protocols; Commentaries; New Materials. Please visit our Instructions to Authors to find out more about each article type.
