Collections and calls for papers

BMC Bioinformatics is calling for submissions to our Collection on "ab initio modelling of protein structure". This Collection includes (but is not limited to) various algorithms/approaches of machine learni...

In biophysics, approaches and methods of physics are applied to the study of biological systems. Most commonly known techniques include X-ray crystallography and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, but extend as far...

Drug discovery is a time-consuming and expensive process, taking an average of more than 10 years and one billion US dollars to deliver a new drug into patients’ hands. Among the steps in drug discovery, dru...

This collection welcomes articles presenting novel developments in artificial intelligence, big data analysis and cloud computing in both biology and medicine, and their applications to the analysis of high-...

• Frank Eisenhaber
• Somali Chaterji
• Khanh N.Q. Le

As biological information is increasing at an unprecedented rate, it directly impacts the design and future development of information and data management pipelines; thus, new ways of processing data, inform...

This Collection welcomes submissions on new computational approaches, tools and databases to address issues and open questions in bioinformatics ethics and data privacy, including anonymisation, encryption a...

BMC Bioinformatics is welcoming submissions for our Collection focused on Computational methods in microscopy image analysis. Microscopy imaging techniques have revolutionized our understanding of biological...

Evolutionary biology studies evolutionary processes and diversification. It commonly employs sequence analysis, of both genomic data and protein sequences, and phylogenetic models to study evolutionary patte...

Functional annotation is a fundamental step in omics data analysis. The annotation of genes and proteins describes their complete biological identities, including biological function, pathways they are invol...

Mass spectrometry, an analytical technique to measure the mass-to-charge ratio of ions in a biological sample, is an indispensable tool in large-scale studies of the proteome. It allows to identify and obtai...

This Collection welcomes submissions on novel algorithms, computational methods and tools on the topics of classification, analysis, comparison and evolution of RNA molecules , approaches to RNA structure (i...

Recent years have seen rapid progress in the development of single-cell sequencing technologies. They can provide valuable insights into complex biological systems as well as allow researchers to make new di...

• Baohua Wang