The journal will publish highly quality papers
in the field discussed below. The archival purpose of journals imposes that
papers must have lasting importance and value over time. Therefore only established
results will be considered for publication. Since we aim at building a bridge
journal between different research communities that are approaching biological
systems from different perspectives, we must consider a broad community of
authors and topics, although all related to dynamic aspects of bioinformatics.
Therefore, the scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to:
Formal languages for modeling biological structures and processes
Analysis and verification techniques and tools for biological behavior
Simulation techniques and tools for biological systems
Bio-inspired languages, computational models and computing
Biological Databases and Query Languages for Cell Models
Modeling Environments and Tools for biological systems
Numerical techniques for the analysis of biological systems
Formal assessment of experimental data quality and reliability
Automated Deduction for Biological Systems
Visualization techniques for complex models
Computational and Logical Aspects of the Analysis of Biological systems
Logics and tools for biological systems
Inference, modelling, and engineering of complex biological networks
Advances in methodology for modeling biological systems
Parallel and distributed simulation of cellular systems
Mathematical and Informational Models of Biological Systems
Advances in methodology for modeling biological systems
Advances in theory of biological systems
Formal Molecular Biology and evolutionary Models
Self-assembly in Biological Systems
Systems biology in early evolution - the origins of biological networks
Editorial board
Corrado Priami - Editor-in-chief
- University of Trento - Italy
Charles Auffray - CNRS - France
Matthew Bellgard
- Murdoch University - Australia
Soren Brunak
- Technical University of Denmark - Denmark
Luca Cardelli - Microsoft
Research Cambridge - UK
Zhu Chen
- Shanghai Institute of Hematology - China
Vincent Danos
- CNRS, Universit\'e Paris VII - France
Eytan Domany
- Center for Systems Biology, Weizmann Institute - Israel
Walter Fontana -
Santa Fe Institute - USA
Takashi
Gojobori - National Institute of Genetics - Japan
Martijn
A. Huynen, Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics - NL
Marta Kwiatkowska
- University of Birmingham - UK
Doron
Lancet - Crown Human Genome Center - Israel
Pedro Mendes
- Virginia Bioinformatics Institute - USA
Bud Mishra
- Courant Institute and Cold Spring Harbor Lab, USA
Satoru
Miyano - University of Tokyo - Japan
Denis Noble
- University of Oxford - UK
Alberto Policriti
- University of Udine - Italy
Magali Roux-Rouquie - CNRS, Pasteur Institute - France
Vincent Schächter - Genoscope - France
Adelinde Uhrmacher
- University of Rostok - Germany
Alfonso Valencia
- Centro Nacional de Biotecnología - Spain
Editorial process
Submissions will be addressed to the editor-in-chief
or to one of the member of the editorial board with expertise in the area
of the paper in electronic form. The handler of the paper is expected
to get three reviews and send a recommendation to the editor-in-chief for
the publication of the paper with the review material. The editor-in-chief
takes the final decision.
The editorial board will do its best to make the reviewing process as short
as possible still maintaining high quality because this is one of the main
parameter to select a journal for publication (we can expect to have an upper
limit of a three months process).
Type of Contributions
The main contribution must be original and describe an
advance of the state of the art.
Tutorial papers are essential contribution accepted with higher frequency
at the beginning of the journal because they contribute strongly to build
a bridge journal. These contributions explain how a technique works
with a language for non expert of the fields, essential feature for interdisciplinarity.
Survey/review papers will be accepted to establish milestones on which the
new research area is built. These papers should convey what is known about
a field, which modeling techniques have been applied and what has resulted
from all that and also speculate about the future.
Information for submissions will be available soon. In the meanwhile you
can send an email to the editor-in-chief.