BMC Bioinformatics

BMC Bioinformatics is an open-access journal published by BioMed Central, part of Springer Nature, since 2000 and covering computational methods for biological data, with a 2024 impact factor of 3.3（BMC Bioinformatics，简称 BMC Bioinform.）是由 BioMed Central（现属 Springer Nature）于 2000 年创办的开放获取期刊，聚焦生物数据的计算方法，2024 年影响因子为 3.3。

Scope

• Accepts papers describing novel computational algorithms, software, models and tools, including statistical methods and machine learning and artificial intelligence, for modelling and analysing biological data接收描述用于生物数据建模与分析的新颖计算算法、软件、模型与工具（含统计方法、机器学习与人工智能）的论文。
• Also covers systems biology系统生物学相关研究亦在收录范围之内。
• Specific areas include complex systems analysis and modelling, comparative genomics and data visualization具体方向包括复杂系统分析与建模、比较基因组学与数据可视化。
• Imaging and image analysis, knowledge-based analysis and network analysis成像与图像分析、知识库分析与网络分析。
• Sequence analysis, structural analysis, transcriptome analysis and proteomics序列分析、结构分析、转录组分析与蛋白质组学。

History

• Founded in 2000, with the first submission received in June 2000该刊于 2000 年创刊，首篇投稿于 2000 年 6 月收到。^[1]
• BioMed Central was the world's first commercial open-access publisher, and this journal was among its early titlesBioMed Central 是全球首家商业开放获取出版商，该刊为其早期刊物之一。
• BioMed Central was acquired by Springer Science+Business Media in 20082008 年，BioMed Central 被 Springer Science+Business Media 收购。
• In 2015 Springer and Nature Publishing Group merged into Springer Nature, and the journal is now labelled as part of Springer Nature2015 年，Springer 与 Nature Publishing Group 合并为 Springer Nature，该刊现标注为 Springer Nature 旗下。
• It is published on a purely open-access basis, with a median time to first decision of about five days该刊为纯开放获取出版，首次决定的中位时间约为五天。
• Its editorial policy is not to accept or reject papers on perceived interest or potential impact, but only to require that the research be scientifically valid其编辑方针不以感知兴趣或潜在影响取舍稿件，只要求研究在科学上成立。

Editors

• The lead editor is Sara Zandomeneghi, based in the London office of Springer Nature, who holds a doctorate in structural biology and biophysics from the University of Nottingham现任 Lead Editor 为 Sara Zandomeneghi，任职于 Springer Nature 伦敦办公室，博士毕业于诺丁汉大学，研究方向为结构生物学与生物物理。
• The journal uses transparent peer review, in which referee reports are published alongside accepted articles under a CC BY 4.0 licence while referees remain anonymous该刊采用透明评审，文章录用后评审报告以 CC BY 4.0 许可随文公开，但审稿人保持匿名。
• The editorial board consists of researchers in bioinformatics and computational biology编委会由生物信息学与计算生物学领域的研究者组成。