The Editors reserve the right to return submissions that are not prepared in accordance with the following instructions. Scope Bioinformatics provides a forum for the exchange of information in the fields of computational molecular biology and genome bioinformatics, with emphasis on the documentation of new algorithms and the development of databases that manage complex biological information generated by genome projects. The following categories of paper may be submitted for publication. Policy papers cover a broad range of issues related to funding or education.
Ontology covers the design and implementation of ontologies in bioinformatics.
Most review papers are commissioned, although the editors welcome suggestions from prospective authors who should in the first instance submit a draft. Special issues of Bioinformatics are devoted to topical or tutorial reviews or selected papers from conferences. Discovery notes are a new category of paper intended for the reporting of biologically interesting discoveries using computational techniques. Topics may include sequence motif detection, structural similarities, gene structure prediction, comparative genomics, metabolic pathways and other aspects of computational molecular biology. The Executive Editors in conjunction with the editorial board and other referees will handle the full editorial process.