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BMC Bioinformatics

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Overview

BMC Bioinformatics is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles describing novel computational algorithms and software, models and tools, including statistical methods, machine learning and artificial intelligence, for the modelling and analysis of all kinds of biological data, as well as systems biology.

  • Publishes on all aspects of bioinformatics and computational biology. 
  • Topics include novel computational algorithms and software, models and tools, and more. 
  • Indexed in PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science (SCIE), DOAJ and more.  
Lead Editor
  • Sara Zandomeneghi

Journal metrics

Journal Impact Factor
3.3 (2024)
5-year Journal Impact Factor
3.5 (2024)
Submission to first decision (median)
5 days
Downloads
7.6M (2024)

Calls for papers

Collection

Predictive toxicology

BMC Bioinformatics is welcoming submissions to our Collection on Predictive toxicology.

Status
Open for submissions
Submission deadline
14 August 2026

Collection

Epigenomics

BMC Bioinformatics is welcoming submissions to our Collection on the development of computational approaches in the study of epigenomics.

Status
Open for submissions
Submission deadline
16 April 2026

Collection

Extracellular vesicle research

BMC Bioinformatics is welcoming submissions to our Collection on Extracellular vesicles research.

Status
Open for submissions
Submission deadline
30 March 2026
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Journal information

Electronic ISSN
1471-2105
Abstracted and indexed in
  1. ACM Digital Library
  2. ANVUR
  3. BFI List
  4. BIOSIS
  5. Baidu
  6. CLOCKSS
  7. CNKI
  8. CNPIEC
  9. Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
  10. DBLP
  11. DOAJ
  12. Dimensions
  13. EBSCO
  14. EI Compendex
  15. EMBiology
  16. EMCare
  17. Gale
  18. GoOA - The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  19. Google Scholar
  20. INSPEC
  21. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  22. Medline
  23. Meta
  24. Naver
  25. Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
  26. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  27. Portico
  28. ProQuest
  29. PubMedCentral
  30. SCImago
  31. SCOPUS
  32. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  33. TD Net Discovery Service
  34. WTI AG
  35. Wanfang
  36. eLibrary.ru
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