Collections and calls for papers

This cross-journal collection welcomes articles presenting novel developments and applications of advanced machine learning methods in multi-omics data with clinical relevance for human health, from the pers...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an increasing problem in healthcare worldwide. AMR occurs when microorganisms change over time to no longer respond to treatment of infections with established drugs. AMR th...

A multitude of genetic markers have been produced by large genomic datasets and unprecedented computational methods. Polygenic Risk Scores (PRS) encompass many markers to ascertain an individual's combined s...

Cardiovascular disease is a major cause of death worldwide. Whilst considerable insights into risk factors have been gained in the past decades, there is still an incomplete understanding of mechanisms of di...

In modern societies, neurodevelopmental disorders are a major medical challenge. These disorders lack clear boundaries in clinical presentation, epidemiology, genomics, and proteomics. Technological innovati...

• Muhammad Umair

Many populations remain under-represented in genomic studies, as ethnic minorities, racial minorities, people of color, and those from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds often face barriers to participa...

In this collection “Microbiomes in human disease”, BMC Medical Genomics, welcomes submissions on research articles and methods investigating various aspects of the human microbiota and their role in human di...

• Munawar Sultana

Metabolic diseases are an increasing health burden around the world. Conditions like non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes are affecting a growing proportion of the globa...

Personalised medicine aims at improving both diagnostics and treatment outcomes for patients, with more accurate diagnostics and very specific treatment for the conditions diagnosed. Research in the genetic ...

• William Cho

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

Splicing is a crucial process to transform precursor mRNAs to their active form. The spliceosome is a very large ribonucleoprotein facilitating this process. The spliceosome is a complex structure which conf...

• Alejandro Ibáñez-Costa