ACM-BCB 2023 Partner Journals

We are happy to announce exciting new partnerships with several learding journals in the field, which will publish selected original full-length research papers accepted by ACM-BCB 2023. Currently, our partner journals include:

• IEEE/ACM Transaction on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB)
• Patterns - open access journal from Cell Press in data science
• iScience - open access journal from Cell Press in life, physical, earth, and health sciences

IEEE/ACM Transaction on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB)
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics emphasizes the algorithmic, mathematical, statistical and computational methods that are central in bioinformatics and computational biology; the development and testing of effective computer programs in bioinformatics; the development of biological databases; and important biological results that are obtained from the use of these methods, programs and databases; the emerging field of Systems Biology, where many forms of data are used to create a computer-based model of a complex biological system.
The publication represents a mixture of three research modalities: a) fundamental methodological, algorithmic, mathematical and statistical research directly motivated by biological issues; b) papers focusing on experimental and implementation issues; and c) papers on serious application of methods and programs that lead to discoveries of biological significance. Increasingly, papers contain elements of all three modalities. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, sequence analysis, comparison and alignment methods; motif, gene and signal recognition; molecular evolution; phylogenetics and phylogenomics; determination or prediction of the structure of RNA and Protein in two and three dimensions; DNA twisting and folding; gene expression and gene regulatory networks; deduction of metabolic pathways; micro-array design and analysis; proteomics; functional genomics; molecular docking and drug design; computational problems in genetics such as linkage and QTL analysis, linkage disequilibrium analysis in populations, and haplotype determination; systems biology.

Patterns is a highly-selective open-access journal from Cell Press (www.cell.com/patterns/home), publishing ground-breaking original research across the full breadth of data science and data heavy research. Works published at the journal are expected to present significant new advances, and to share data and code in a manner that exemplifies open and FAIR science.

Select original research papers accepted by ACM-BCB 2023 will be invited for potential publication in Patterns, which will be further evaluated and peer-reviewed according to the journal’s standards. Peer-review reports from the conference evaluation process will be taken into account by journal’s editors as a complement to journal-invited reviewers. Authors will be permitted to submit their full conference paper to Patterns or to ask for the paper to included in the conference proceedings, but not both. If authors elect to submit their paper to Patterns, a 2-page extended abstract will be included in the conference proceedings.

Open Access Charges: Publication in Patterns is subject to an open access charge with a special 25% discount from its special introducty fee of $4,450.

Science has many big remaining questions. To address them, we will need to work collaboratively and across disciplines. The goal of iScience is to help fuel that type of interdisciplinary thinking. iScience is a new open access journal from Cell Press (www.cell.com/iscience/home) that provides a platform for original research in the life, physical, earth, and health sciences. The primary criterion for publication in iScience is a significant contribution to a relevant field combined with robust results and underlying methodology. The advances appearing in iScience include both fundamental and applied investigations across this interdisciplinary range of topic areas. To support transparency in scientific investigation, we are happy to consider replication studies and papers that describe negative results.

In addition to the evaluation by the ACM-BCB TPC committee, editors of iScience will evaluate the papers for biological impact and suitability for publication. In particular, the following criteria will be used to evaluate the biological relevance:

• Can inputs be found through experiments?
• Can outputs be used directly in future experiments or analysis?
• Can outputs be obtained through well-established methodology for less cost?
• Is methodology proposed applicable in useful settings?
• Do biological data support the study?
• Is biological variability sufficiently accounted for?

Select original research papers accepted by ACM-BCB 2023 will be invited for potential publication in iScience, which will be further evaluated and peer-reviewed according to the journal’s standards. Peer-review reports from the conference evaluation process will be taken into account by journal’s editors as a complement to journal-invited reviewers. Authors will be permitted to submit their full conference paper to iScience or to ask for the paper to included in the conference proceedings, but not both. If authors elect to submit their paper to iScience, a 2-page extended abstract will be included in the conference proceedings.

Open Access Charges: Publication in iScience is subject to an open access charge of $1,575 (with a special 50% discount from its original fee of $3,150).