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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
10.6M (2025)

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. Chinese Academy of Medical Science (CAMS)
  11. DBLP
  12. DOAJ
  13. Dimensions
  14. EBSCO
  15. EI Compendex
  16. EMBiology
  17. EMCare
  18. Gale
  19. GoOA - The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  20. Google Scholar
  21. INSPEC
  22. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  23. Medline
  24. Meta
  25. Naver
  26. Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
  27. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  28. Portico
  29. ProQuest
  30. PubMedCentral
  31. SCImago
  32. SCOPUS
  33. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  34. TD Net Discovery Service
  35. WTI AG
  36. Wanfang
  37. eLibrary.ru
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