Section edited by Frank Eisenhaber and Sandor Pongor
The Bioinformatics section will be the publishing channel for scientific articles that report about theoretical, computational and data analysis approaches applied to biological, medical and other life science related problems, and the results and insights that have been achieved with them. Special emphasis is given to manuscripts that deal with biological mechanism interpretation to biomolecular sequence data and data from other experimental high-throughput techniques. This section also covers all fields of bioinformatics and computational biology that might not be handled by other subsections of Biology Direct. Hypotheses are welcome as long as they are based on rigorous scientific standards and as they fit existing data. Manuscripts describing new methods or software developments need to demonstrate that a major improvement has been achieved, and this has led to either improved accuracy by orders of magnitude, lowered resource consumption and/or some new biological insight.