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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
Annual Journal Metrics
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Citation Impact 2023
Journal Impact Factor: 2.9
5-year Journal Impact Factor: 3.6
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 0.821
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.005
Speed 2023
Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 12
Submission to acceptance (median days): 146
Usage 2023
Downloads: 5,987,678
Altmetric mentions: 4,858