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Genome Biology

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Abbreviated title (ISO 4)
  
Genome Biol.

Language
  
English

Publication history
  
2000–present

Discipline
  
Genomics

Edited by
  
Louisa Flintoft

Publisher
  
BioMed Central (United Kingdom)

Genome Biology is a fully open access scientific journal that publishes original, peer-reviewed research in genomics. It is published by BioMed Central (BMC), and is currently the BMC journal with the highest impact factor. The journal has an international editorial board of leading researchers.

Contents

The details of this journal's scope and editorial policies are described here. Authors and peer reviewers are asked to disclose competing interests.

The journal is supported in part by advertising.

Impact factor

The journal has a (2015) impact factor of 11.313 as tracked by Thomson Reuters (ISI).

Contents

The journal aims to disseminate, discuss, and provide critical review of research in all areas of biology and biomedicine studied from a genomic and post-genomic perspective. Areas covered include, but are not limited to: sequence analysis; bioinformatics; insights into molecular, cellular and organismal biology; functional genomics; epigenomics; population genomics; proteomics; comparative biology and evolution; systems biology and network biology; genomics of disease; and medical genomics.

Categories of articles in the journal include:

  • Research: These are Peer reviewed research papers
  • Method: These are Peer reviewed papers describing new methods
  • Software: These are Peer reviewed papers describing new software tools
  • Commentary/Editorial: These are comments on scientific, political, and ethical issues relating to genomic research
  • Meeting report: These are summaries of information presented at conferences
  • Reviews and Opinion articles: These are also Peer reviewed
  • Publication format

    Genome Biology is published online only. There is no physical printed version.

    Article accessibility

    Accessibility to each article is free (by open access)

    References

    Genome Biology Wikipedia