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Online Journal of Bioinformatics
OJBTM
Online
Journal of
Bioinformatics©
ISSN
1443-2250
OVERVIEW
Updated
October 24, 2009
The Online
Journal of Bioinformatics (OJB) abbreviated
as Online J Bioinformatics founded in 1996,
currently has 36
editorial members qualified in computational biology, genetics,
biology,
informatics and/or computer science. The purpose of this journal is to
provide
original high quality peer-reviewed bioinformatics in a timely manner.
Submissions are reviewed by 2 editors or persons commissioned from
another
institution. If an outcome is uncertain, a third reviewer's decision
will be
final. The site consists of a contents page with links to full-text
articles (subscribers). Published
articles are permanently
available, archived and occasionaly updated. OJB articles are
posted with
relevant meta tags. The journal publishes mainly original
research work
in bioinformatics, but reviews of recent relevant findings may be
considered. Submissions
that do not meet the basic requirements (see
below),
will not be reviewed. Submissions will be subjected to an automatic
plagiarism
and author (only if relevant), check before review. As of the
16th
August, 2007 published articles will be linked to the reviewers
reports. As of
February 2008, all accepted review reports will be posted without
author's
names or institution. Submissions must be of middle to high
significance to be
considered for review. A list
of specific areas for publication is shown below:
Functional interfaces for genome and gene analysis.
INSTRUCTIONS
FOR AUTHORS
Updated 24th November 2009
How to
submit:
The Online J Bioinformatics (OJB) is an electronic
journal. (Basic requirements):Submissions
must be emailed
here and
when received will be acknowledged by OJB by
return email. Authors submitting on behalf of an institution must
provide
evidence (email or otherwise) of acceptance of submission by the
institution.
Authors must identify or nominate the organization where the work was
done,
acknowledge collaboration, and nominate their qualifications. To
avoid
confusion, file names should be distinctive and include date of
submission. For
example "Influenza virus: biochemical perspectives, mutational variants
and bird flu" should be named "birdfluMay3rd08.doc",
"influenzaMay3rd08.doc" or mutationalMay3rd08.pdf" ect.
Review
and publication:
Submissions are reviewed by two or
more editors, or persons commissioned from another institution. The
criteria
for publication are outlined in the Referee
Form. If
accepted with
or without modifications, reports are usually emailed to authors within
60
working days. After author notification by email, submissions not
published by OJB are erased and copyright is returned to
authors.
If the work is deemed to not be an original contribution and requires
major changes, the manuscript will not be considered for
publication (but a
report will be issued). From February 2008, review reports for
all
submissions are posted
without author's
names, origin or title. Reports are not provided to authors for
submissions
found to be not suitable for publication in OJB and no further
correspondence
concerning the submission will be entered into. Once authors have
signed and
returned the copyright form, and have been notified by the OJB that a
submission has been accepted, the board may at its own discretion not
allow the
work to be withdrawn from publication. Emails or attachments with
viruses are
not read and are deleted. Upon acceptance of a submission, the TITLE
and
KEYWORDS will be posted on the internet and usually, published within
48 days.
Submissions remain posted indefinitely and archived.
Copyright
and conflict of interest: . The OJB
is unable to process accepted submissions further until the OJB
Copyright Form is
received (Basic
requirement). The form must be sent here
by email.
Receipt of the completed form
constitutes transfer of copyright (please read the form for further
information).
OJB encourages the dissemination of scientific work and
supports
the SPARC
initiative which
allows authors to disseminate their work without financial gain.
Authors are
encouraged to complete the SPARC
form here when
submitting
work to the OJB. OJB subscribes to the conflict of
interest
charter as described by the Council
of Science
Editors and
authors must complete this form
Formatting
(Basic
requirements):
Submissions should
be submitted in text, MSWORD, Latex, PDF other suitable word processing
programs or formatted HTML or XML. Additional formatting, if required,
will be
done by the OJB. Submissions must be written in a
high
standard of English. Authors should be acquainted with browser
programs
for re-editing. Graphs and movies may be attached in any format. Please
note
that large images may have to be linked to another page. As a guide,
authors
should view a recent OJB article (full-text PDF) or full-text WORD. Submissions must
start with
the respective TITLE and AUTHOR(S) NAMES names with qualifications
(PhD),
affiliations, address for correspondence and email address. The
ABSTRACT must
be a concise compilation of the work done (avoid lengthy
descriptions of current knowledge), results and conclusions. The
abstract
must have KEY-WORDS. The INTRODUCTION, MATERIALS and METHODS, RESULTS,
DISCUSSION and REFERENCES follow the ABSTRACT and must contain
information directly
related to the work. Results must be supported by valid statistical
and/or
programming tests. Statements should be made in the third person. For
example
"I/we found that.. is not acceptable", whereas "it was found
that using the proposed method", is acceptable.
References
in text may be set out as Jones GH (1996) or Jones
and Smith JK (2000) or for more than two, Jones et al (2001).
REFERENCES should be listed as author names (Jones GH), title, journal
name in
full, volume and pages. References may also be listed in order
of
appearance and represented by a number [1] in text. A full text
article
should not exceed 5000 words with a maximum of 50 references.
Authors are
encouraged to emulate the format mainly used in the OJB.
Upon
acceptance of a submission, the TITLE and KEYWORDS will
be posted on the internet, and published within 90 days. Submissions
remain
posted indefinitely and archived. If images are too large (eg
>2 MG),
only relevant sections of the image may appear in the article. The full
image
may be linked to a separate page.
Short
communications:
Contributors may report significant
new research results. The work should be presented in the form of a
short
abstract with supporting condensed data. Short reports should not
exceed 1000
words and 25 references.
Review
articles:
Authors may submit a compendium of their own research work
or a review of the current and future status of areas of interest (see list above).
Solicited or unsolicited articles will be reviewed by the Editorial
Board.
Reviews should include an abstract, an introduction and brief headings.
The
article should not exceed 3000 words and 60 references.
Materials
and Data Availability :Authors
must allow other qualified researchers to replicate and improve on
submissions
to OJB and must allow access to data and programs. However,
authors may
inform the OJB upon submission of any restrictions on the availability
of data.
Authors must make cloned DNAs, antibodies, bacterial, animal, or plant
cells;
viruses; and computer programs promptly available on request by
qualified
researchers for their own use. Failure to comply will preclude future
publication in the journal. Authors may request a modest sum to cover
costs.
Reprints:
Upon request, authors will be emailed a copy of the
full-text published article for printing. Parts may have to be
reformatted (eg:
large images).
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