Journal of Computational Biology
Journal of Computational Biology publishes articles whose primary contributions are the development and application of new methods in computational biology, including algorithmic, statistical, mathematical, machine learning and artificial intelligence contributions. The journal welcomes novel methods that tackle established problems within computational biology; novel methods and frameworks that anticipate new problems and data types arising in computational biology; and novel methods that are inspired from studying natural computation. Methods should be tested on real and/or simulated biological data whenever feasible. Papers whose primary contributions are theoretical are also welcome. Available only online, this is an essential journal for scientists and students who want to keep abreast of developments in bioinformatics and computational biology.
Research Articles: Research articles describe new methodology development and application in computational biology. It is recommended that manuscripts should be approximately 3,000 words, excluding tables, figures, legends, abstract, disclosure or references; longer articles can also be submitted. Research articles should include the following sections, in order: abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion and references.
Software articles: Short 2-4 page articles describing implementations of new or recently developed computational methods for applications in computational biology. The approaches underlying the software should have methodologically interesting components. Software articles can be published as companion articles to primary research articles which describe the main methodological contributions. Software article submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter that concisely states the novel implementation and algorithmic challenges the software tackles.
*Research and software articles should report unique findings not previously published.
Tutorials: These articles highlight important concepts in computational biology. The journal especially welcomes tutorials on algorithms, data structures, machine learning paradigms, and other computational formalisms that are newly being utilized in computational biology. Prospective contributors should contact the journal (jcb@liebertpub.com) with brief outlines before proceeding.
Reviews: Brief outlines from prospective contributors are welcome, and these will also be solicited on specific subjects. Articles that benchmark existing approaches are also welcome.
News/Perspectives/Book Reviews: These article types should typically be 2–4 pages long. Contacting the journal before beginning such a paper is suggested.
Conference and other special issues: The Journal of Computational Biology welcomes proposals for special issues related to topics within the scope of the journal.
Journal of Computational Biology coverage includes:
Algorithms for computational biology
Mathematical modeling and simulation
AI / Machine learning
Statistical formulations
Software for applied bioinformatics
Genomics and systems biology
Evolution and population genomics
Biomedical applications
Biocomputing and biology-inspired algorithms
Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Molecular sequence analysis
Sequencing and genotyping technologies
Regulation and epigenomics
Transcriptomics, including single-cell
Metagenomics
Population and statistical genetics
Evolutionary, compressive and comparative genomics
Structure and function of non-coding RNAs
Computational proteomics and proteogenomics
Protein structure and function
Biological networks
Computational systems biology
Privacy of biomedical data
Bioimaging
Journal of Computational Biology is under the editorial leadership of Editor-in-Chief Mona Singh, PhD, Princeton University; and other leading investigators.
Audience: Computational biologists, bioinformaticians, data scientists, applied mathematicians, and computer scientists, among others.
| Tatsuya Akutsu | Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan |
| Vineet Bafna | University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA |
| Soren Brunak, PhD | University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Gary A Churchill | Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, USA |
| Christina Curtis, PhD, MSC | Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA |
| Dan F Deblasio, PhD | The University of Texas at El Paso, USA |
| Alexei Finkelstein | Institute Of Protein Research, Moscow Region, Russia |
| David J Galas, PhD | Pacific Northwest Research Institute (Pnri), Seattle, WA, USA |
| Gamze Gursoy, PhD | Columbia University, New York, NY, USA |
| David Haussler, PhD | Univ Of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA |
| Leroy Hood, MD, PhD | Phenome Health & Isb, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Haiyan Huang, PhD | University Of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA |
| Sorin Istrail | Brown Univ Center For Cmb & Computer Sci, Providence, RI, USA |
| Carl Kingsford, PhD | Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| Anshul Kundaje, PhD | Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA |
| Sara Mostafavi, BSC, MSC, PhD | University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Saket Navlakha, PhD | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA |
| Aida Ouangraoua, PhD | Universite De Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada |
| Laxmi Parida | Ibm Tj Watson Research Center, Yortown Heights, NY, USA |
| Alan Perelson | Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, USA |
| Mihaela Pertea, PhD, MS, MSE | Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA |
| Teresa Przytycka, PhD | Nih, Bethesda, MD, USA |
| Gesine Reinert, PhD | University Of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom |
| Fred S Roberts | Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA |
| Sushmita Roy, PhD | University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA |
| Steven Salzberg | Johns Hopkins University, USA |
| Sriram Sankararaman, PhD | University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| David Sankoff | University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada |
| David Schwartz | Univ Wisconsin-Madison/Biotech Center, Madison, WI, USA |
| Russell Schwartz | Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| Ron Shamir | Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Mingfu Shao, PhD | Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA |
| Mona Singh, PhD | Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA |
| Ritambhara Singh, PhD | Brown University, Providence, RI, USA |
| David States | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
| Mike Steel | Univ Of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand |
| Krister Swenson, PhD | National Centre For Scientific Research, Montpellier, France |
| Simon Tavaré | University of Southern California, USA |
| Martin Vingron | Max-Planck Institute For Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany |
| Michael S Waterman | Univ Of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Wing Hung Wong | Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA |
| Hongyi Xin, PhD | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China |
| Vicky Yao, PhD | Rice University, Houston, TX, USA |