Briefings in Bioinformatics

Briefings in Bioinformatics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed journal published by Oxford University Press, founded in 2000 and covering bioinformatics and computational biology, indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, MEDLINE and Scopus, with a 2025 impact factor of 7.3Briefings in Bioinformatics 是由 Oxford University Press 出版的双月刊，2000 年创刊，涵盖生物信息学与计算生物学，被科学引文索引扩展版、MEDLINE 与 Scopus 收录，2025 年影响因子为 7.3。

Scope

• Briefings style reviews written for experimental scientists without presupposing computational expertise面向实验科学家的综述，不预设计算专业背景。
• Sequence analysis, genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics序列分析、基因组学、蛋白质组学、转录组学与代谢组学。
• Systems biology, network biology, structural bioinformatics, imaging and phenomics系统生物学、网络生物学、结构生物信息学、成像与表型组学。
• Clinical and translational bioinformatics临床与转化生物信息学。
• Emerging areas such as single-cell and spatial omics and machine learning in biomedicine单细胞与空间组学、生物医学中的机器学习等新兴领域。

History

• The journal was established in 2000, with its first issue in February 2000该刊于 2000 年创刊，首期于 2000 年 2 月出版。
• It was initially a quarterly published by Henry Stewart Publications最初为 Henry Stewart Publications 出版的季刊。
• It was taken over by Oxford University Press in 2006 and soon became bimonthly2006 年由 Oxford University Press 接手，随后改为双月刊。
• It has published six issues a year since then此后每年出版 6 期。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Shuangge Ma of the Yale School of Public Health现任主编为美国耶鲁大学公共卫生学院的 Shuangge Ma。
• Martin Bishop of the University of Cambridge served as editor-in-chief from 2000 to 2023此前的主编为英国剑桥大学的 Martin Bishop，任期为 2000 年至 2023 年。
• The journal operates single-anonymized peer review, with reviewers known only to the editors该刊采用单盲评审，评审人身份仅对编辑公开。
• It became fully open access in January 2024 under CC BY or CC BY-NC licences该刊自 2024 年 1 月起转为完全开放获取，采用 CC BY 或 CC BY-NC 许可。