Bioinformatics and Biosystems Journal

Bioinformatics and Biosystems: Official Journal of KSBI

After several unsuccessful efforts, KSBI finally launched its official journal, “Bioinformatics and Biosystems,” and published the first issue on Feb. 2006. As the name of the journal suggests, the journal aims to provide an international forum, both in print and on the web, for exchange of information in all areas of bioinformatics and related research areas on biosystems informed by the fusion character of biological sciences and information technology. Key objective is rapid exchange of information, and the journal accepts self-reviewed papers for that purpose. The scope of the journal covers the following topics;

• Bioinformatics and computational biology including genome analysis, sequence analysis, structural bioinformatics, gene expression, computational systems biology, biological networks, data and text mining, databases, and ontology

• Other related informatics areas including medical informatics, chemoinformatics, and neuroinformatics

• Related “omics” areas including genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and physiomics

• Related bio-fusion areas including biostatistics, biochips, biocomputings, biomedical research, bio-imaging, and bio-nanotechnology

The journal Bioinformatics and Biosystems is under the leadership of the editor-in-chief, Dr. Jang R Liu of Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), and has 7 editors and 17 editorial board members. As of Nov. 2006, KSBI has published the three issues of the volume 1 so far, and will publish the fourth issue at the end of November 2006.