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3D genomics

Guest Editors
Stefano Lonardi, PhD, University of California, Riverside, USA
Oluwatosin Oluwadare, PhD, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA


Submission Status: Open until 23 June 2025

Bioinformatics and chemoinformatics in drug discovery

Guest Editors
George M Spyrou, PhD, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology & Genetics, Cyprus
Vetrivel Umashankar, MSc, MPhil, PGDBI, PhD, Indian Council of Medical Research, India

Submission Status: Open until 10 June 2025

RNA-seq data analysis

Guest Editors
Eduardo Andrés-León, PhD,  Institute of Parasitology and Biomedicine López-Neyra (IPBLN) and Spanish National Research Institute (CSIC), Spain
Xiangtao Li, PhD, Jilin University, China


Submission Status: Open until 21 May 2025

Eukaryotic phylogenetics

Guest Editors
Jijun Tang, PhD, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, China
Dapeng Wang, PhD, Imperial College London, UK

Submission Status: Open until 16 April 2025

Microbial taxonomy

Guest Editors
Xiaoquan Su, PhD, Qingdao University, China
Yanni Sun, PhD, City University of Hong Kong, China

Submission Status: Open until 27 March 2025

Bioinformatics in agriculture

Guest Editors
Ratna Prabha, PhD, Agricultural Knowledge Management Unit, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India
Anil Rai, PhD , Master in Computer Applications, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, India 

Submission Status: Open until 14 March 2025

Computational methods in microscopy image analysis

Guest Editor
Dariusz Plewczyński, PhD, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Submission Status: Open until 27 February 2025 

Bioinformatics ethics and data privacy

Guest Editor:
Vasiliki Rahimzadeh, PhD, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

Submission Status: Open until 13 December 2024

Big data management in biological domains

Guest Editors:
Anna Bernasconi, PhD, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, PhD, Università di Roma – La Sapienza, Italy
Simona E. Rombo, PhD, University of Palermo, Italy


Submission Status: Open until 6 November 2024

Published

Artificial intelligence for drug design

Guest Editors
Xing Chen, PhD, Jiangnan University, China
Yifeng Li, PhD, Brock University, Canada
 

Functional annotation and pathway analysis

Guest Editor:
Giuseppe Agapito, PhD, Department of Law, Economics and Social Sciences, University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro, Italy

Prediction and modelling of RNA structure and interactions

Guest Editors
Anže Božič, PhD, Department of Theoretical Physics, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Letizia Chiodo, PhD, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy

Luca Tesei, PhD, University of Camerino, Italy

 

Mass spectrometry-based proteomics: advances in data processing

Guest Editor:
Andreas Hildebrandt
: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

 

Evolutionary studies

Guest Editors:
Jijun Tang: University of South Carolina, USA
Shibiao Wan: Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA
 

Analysis of biophysical data

Guest Editors:
Lun Hu: Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Qi Zhao: University of Science and Technology Liaoning, China

 

Ab initio modelling of protein structure

Guest Editors:
Luigi Donato: University of Messina, Italy & IEMEST, Italy
Mohamed Hammad: Menoufia University, Egypt & Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia
Saurav Mallik: University of Arizona, USA
Shoba Ranganathan: Macquarie University, Australia
Leyi Wei: Shandong University, China
 

Single-cell technologies

Guest Editors:
Baohua Wang
: School of Life Sciences, Nantong University, China
David Casero: Research Institute at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, USA

Big Data and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics

Guest Editors:
Frank Eisenhaber: A*STAR, Singapore
Somali Chaterji: Purdue University, USA
Khanh N.Q. Le: Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
Placide Poba-Nzaou: University of Quebec, Canada

2018

Thematic series
Machine Learning for Computational and Systems Biology
BMC Bioinformatics
Deadline for submissions: May 6th 2019


2015

Thematic series
3D Cell Segmentation and Quantitative Profiling: Methods and Applications
BMC Bioinformatics
Collection published: 12 June 2015


2014

Thematic series
Biological Data Visualization
BMC Bioinformatics
Collection published: 7 July 2014


2013

Thematic series
Bioimage Informatics
BMC Bioinformatics
Edited by: Dr Ivo Sbalzarini, Dr Pavel Tomancak, Dr Hanchuan Peng
Collection published: 4 October 2013


2012

Cross journal collection
Cancer bioinformatics: bioinformatic methods, network biomarkers and precision medicine
Edited by: Xiangdong WANG
Collection published: 1 May 2012


2011

Thematic series
RECOMB CCB
BMC Bioinformatics
Edited by: Igor Jurisica
Collection published: 26 April 2011


2010

Cross journal collection
Ensembl update 2010
Collection published: 30 October 2010


Cross journal collection
Cloud computing tools and analyses
Collection published: 7 September 2010


Cross journal collection
Open Access Biodiversity Research
Collection published: 25 May 2010


2009

Cross journal collection
FANTOM4
Collection published: 19 April 2009


Cross journal collection
Daphnia: the companion papers for the genome sequence
Collection published: 3 April 2009

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    Journal Impact Factor: 2.9
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 3.6
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    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.005

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    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 12
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