Eugene Koonin, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA
Aims and scope
Biology Direct serves the life science research community as an author driven open peer review journal, providing authors and readers with an alternative to the traditional model of peer review.
How it worksEditor-in-Chief
Articles
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Diverse approaches to predicting drug-induced liver injury using gene-expression profiles
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Differentially expressed tRFs in CD5 positive relapsed & refractory diffuse large B cell lymphoma and the bioinformatic analysis for their potential clinical use
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A novel framework for horizontal and vertical data integration in cancer studies with application to survival time prediction models
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mPies: a novel metaproteomics tool for the creation of relevant protein databases and automatized protein annotation
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Midichlorians - the biomeme hypothesis: is there a microbial component to religious rituals?
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On the origin of life in the Zinc world: 1. Photosynthesizing, porous edifices built of hydrothermally precipitated zinc sulfide as cradles of life on Earth
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The evolution of domain-content in bacterial genomes
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The ancient Virus World and evolution of cells
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A putative RNA-interference-based immune system in prokaryotes: computational analysis of the predicted enzymatic machinery, functional analogies with eukaryotic RNAi, and hypothetical mechanisms of action
Journal sections
Biology Direct publishes in the following sections:
- Bioinformatics
- Cell Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genomics
- Mathematical Biology
- Non-coding DNA & RNA
- Structural & Molecular Biology
- Systems Biology
For details of Section Editors and Editorial Board members, please see our Editorial Board page.
Proceedings of the CAMDA Satellite Meeting to ISMB 2018
Read our collection of this year's CAMDA proceedings, edited by David P Kreil, Paweł P Labaj and Joaquin Dopazo.
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Annual Journal Metrics
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Speed
96 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
72 days to first decision for all manuscripts
185 days from submission to acceptance
31 days from acceptance to publication
Citation Impact
3.010 - 2-year Impact Factor
3.332 - 5-year Impact Factor
0.934 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.388 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
Usage
271,811 downloads
157 Altmetric mentions
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