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  Instructions to Authors

*OPEN ACCESS OPTION FOR AUTHORS*

Open access <#Open access>

ALL ARTICLES MUST BE SUBMITTED ONLINE. Once you have prepared your
manuscript according to the Instructions below please visit the online
submission website <http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/bioinformatics>.

Instructions on submitting your manuscript online, along with the
compulsory Word and LaTex* templates <submission_online.html>, are
available. [*If you use bibtex, please use the bibliography style named
natbib.bst]. Help with inserting figures into the templates may be found
at http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/assistance/HA010547971033.aspx.

Please read these instructions carefully and follow them strictly so
that the publication process is efficient and as rapid as possible. The
Editors and the Editorial Office reserve the right to return submissions
that are not prepared in accordance with the following instructions.


    SCOPE

/Bioinformatics/ provides a forum for the exchange of information in the
fields of computational molecular biology and post-genome
bioinformatics, with emphasis on the documentation of new algorithms and
databases that allows the progress of bioinformatics and biomedical
research in a significant manner.

Upon submission you will be asked to provisionally select one of the
following categories for your manuscript:

    * Genome analysis
    * Sequence analysis
    * Phylogenetics
    * Structural bioinformatics
    * Gene expression
    * Genetic and population analysis
    * Systems biology
    * Data and text mining
    * Databases and ontologies

Detailed Scope Guidelines
<http://www.oxfordjournals.org/bioinformatics/for_authors/scope_guidelines.html>
are also available for the above categories.


    TYPES OF MANUSCRIPT

The following types of paper may be submitted for publication.

*Original Papers* (up to 7 pages; this is approx. 5000 words - in
response to a rapid increase in submissions and papers published the
Bioinformatics page layout has been updated in February 2005 resulting
in considerable space savings).

Original papers that describe new research developments in computational
molecular biology, for example: models, algorithms, software involving
new methods, biological databases and network information services, and
their impact on molecular biology or computer science. Actual biological
data, as opposed to purely simulated data, must be used.

*Discovery Notes*(up to 4 pages, this is approx. 3000 words)
Discovery notes report biologically interesting discoveries using
computational techniques. Topics may include sequence motif detection,
definition of new domains, structural similarities, gene structure
prediction, comparative genomics, biomolecular networks and other
aspects of computational molecular biology.

The results presented should present new discoveries, bringing insight
to a relevant biological problem, and not be the simple extension of
current knowledge. The results are expected to proceed from the
specialized use of tools, methods, and databases. The inclusion of
experimental results is considered very positively.

*Application Notes* (up to 2 pages; this is approx. 1300 words or 1000
words plus one figure)
Applications Notes are short descriptions of novel software or new
algorithm implementations, databases and network services (web servers,
and interfaces). Software or data must be freely available to
non-commercial users. Availability must be clearly stated in the
article. Authors must also ensure that the software is available for a
full TWO YEARS following publication. Web services should not require
mandatory registration by the user. Additional Supplementary data can be
published online-only by the journal, or may be provided on the author's
web site. This supplementary material should be referred to in the
abstract of the Application Note.
If describing software, the software should run under nearly all
conditions on a wide range of machines.

*Reviews* (3-8 pages)
Most review papers are commissioned, although the editors welcome
suggestions from prospective authors who should in the first instance
submit a draft.

*Letters to the Editor*
Bioinformatics publishes "letters to the editors" on the broad range of
topics covered by the journal, including political, technical and
scientific analyses of issues related to bioinformatics and
computational biology. The letters can also include the discussion of
papers published by the journal.

*Conference Papers*
Bioinformatics considers proposals for publishing conference proceeding
papers, as supplementary issues or as special sections of the journal.
Please be sure to include the following information in your proposal:

    * What is the theme of the conference and submitted papers?
    * What numbers of papers are expected to be submitted and published?
    * What peer review process will be put in place by the conference
      organisers to recommend papers for publication in the journal?
    * How many delegates are expected to attend the conference?
    * Assurance that the papers proposed for publication have not and
      will not be published elsewhere prior to publication in
      Bioinformatics, or afterwards without the permission of the
      journal’s publisher.


    PAGE CHARGES

The journal strongly discourages authors from exceeding the page limits.
Manuscripts exceeding the recommended limits may be rejected without
review - for example manuscripts that exceed the limit by 20% or more
are usually returned by the Editorial Office immediately. In the event
that a manuscript does exceed the page limits we make the following charges:

    * Original papers: £100/$190 per excess page (over 7 published pages)
    * Discovery notes: £100/$190 per excess page (over 4 published pages)
    * Application notes: £100/$190 per excess page (over 2 published pages)

To help you estimate the page length of your manuscript, please use the
provided Word and LaTex author templates <submission_online.html> for
submissions.


    GENERAL POLICIES

*Previous publication*
Submission of a manuscript implies that it reports unpublished work,
that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere and that,
if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, either
in English or in any other language, without the consent of the
publisher. Authors should provide the references of similar work that
they have already published, or which is currently under consideration
by another journal. If the work has previously been presented at a
conference, authors should provide details in the covering letter. The
journal will consider publication of work that has previously been
presented as either a short abstract or poster at a conference, *but not
as a full paper*. If previously published tables, illustrations or more
than 200 words of text are to be included, then the copyright holder's
written permission must be obtained. Include copies of any such
permission letters with your paper.

*Authorship*
All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship. Each
author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public
responsibility for the content. Authorship credit should be based on
substantial contribution to conception and design, execution, or
analysis and interpretation of data. All authors should be involved in
drafting the article or revising it critically for important
intellectual content, and must have read and approved the final version
of the manuscript.

Other than in exceptional circumstances the Journal does not allow
addition or removal of author names after submission. A satisfactory
explanation for any proposed changes in authorship will be required. We
will also require a letter of consent from any person whose name has
been removed indicating that they agree to the removal of their name
from the author list. Owing to the complexity of these rules we strongly
advise authors to fix the author list before submission and not to
attempt to make changes later.

*Conflicts of Interest*
At the point of submission, Bioinformatics policy requires that each
author reveal any financial interests or connections, direct or
indirect, or other situations that might raise the question of bias in
the work reported or the conclusions, implications, or opinions stated -
including pertinent commercial or other sources of funding for the
individual author(s) or for the associated department(s) or
organization(s), personal relationships, or direct academic competition.
When considering whether you should declare a conflicting interest or
connection please consider the conflict of interest test: Is there any
arrangement that would embarrass you or any of your co-authors if it was
to emerge after publication and you had not declared it?

As an integral part of the online submission process, Corresponding
authors are required to confirm whether they or their co-authors have
any conflicts of interest to declare, and to provide details of these.
If the Corresponding author is unable to confirm this information on
behalf of all co-authors, the authors in question will then be required
to submit a completed Conflict of Interest form
<http://www.oxfordjournals.org/bioinformatics/for_authors/bioinf_coi_form.pdf>
to the Editorial Office. It is the Corresponding author’s responsibility
to ensure that all authors adhere to this policy.

If the manuscript is published, Conflict of Interest information will be
communicated in a statement in the published paper.

*Software*
If the manuscript describes new software tools or the implementation of
novel algorithms the software must be freely available to non-commercial
users at the time of submission. Availability must be clearly stated in
the article. Authors must also ensure that the software is available for
a full TWO YEARS following publication. The editors of Bioinformatics
encourage authors to make their source code available and, if possible,
to provide access through an open source license (see www.opensource.org
<http://www.opensource.org> for examples). Authors should make every
effort to use URLs that will remain stable.

*Supporting Data*
All data on which the conclusions given in the publication are based
must be publicly available. Bioinformatics fully supports the
recommendations of the National Academies regarding data sharing (see
Board on Life Sciences, Sharing Publication-Related Data and Materials:
Responsibilities of Authorship in the Life Sciences. Available at
www.nap.edu/books/0309088593/html
<http://www.nap.edu/books/0309088593/html>). If the analysis is based on
new datasets, authors are encouraged to submit these to appropriate
public repositories. In particular, microarray data should be submitted
to one of the recognized public repositories in a MIAME compliant way
(see C. A. Ball et al., Submission of Microarray Data to Public
Repositories. PLoS Biology, 2, e317). In any event, all data should be
made available to the journal for the purpose of peer review. If your
manuscript describes a three-dimensional model of a protein that has
been manually built, you should deposit it in the PMDB database
(http://www.caspur.it/PMDB, see also NAR 34, 306-309). The database will
return a unique identifier which you can include in your manuscript,
thereby allowing readers to have access to your model.

*Supplementary Data*
Only directly relevant material should be included in the full text of
manuscripts. Supporting materials and Appendices which are not essential
for inclusion in the full text, but would nevertheless benefit the
reader, can be published as online-only Supplementary Data.
Supplementary Data should be submitted for review, in a separate file
from the manuscript. Authors should ensure that the Supplementary Data
is referred to in the main manuscript at an appropriate point in the
text. It cannot be altered or replaced after the paper has been accepted
for publication. For the purpose of long-term preservation of this
information, we require supplementary material to be published and
stored on our website. It is acceptable for authors to post
supplementary material on their own website in addition to this, but not
in place of this.

*Pre-screening*
At present the journal accepts 20% of manuscripts that are submitted.
Therefore, to increase the efficiency of the publication process,
manuscripts received in the Bioinformatics office undergo a
pre-screening process.
Papers that are considered to be of low significance to the readership
of the journal are returned without review.

*The review process*
At least four recommended reviewers must be provided by the author at
the submission stage. A manuscript will not be assigned to an Associate
Editor until this information has been provided. Manuscripts that pass
the pre-screening phase are sent to two or more referees, who agree to
undertake the refereeing within a short period. Authors should normally
carry out any revision within four weeks. Revisions that are not
received within 90 days will be treated as new submissions.

*Acceptance*
When accepted by the editors, authors may be asked to send the files of
the final manuscript to the editorial office. These files are used for
typesetting and should be either

    * a text (most Macintosh or PC-based word processing) and a .pdf file or
    * LaTeX files (including Gen-bioinformatics.cls., bib, .bst and .ps
      files) with the images printed to a postscript file and a .pdf file.
    * A licence to publish is required to be completed by the authors
      and this is handled by the publisher.

Because accepted manuscripts are published online following acceptance,
it is important that the final version of the manuscript supplied by the
author contains no information regarding the citation information
(volume, issue, year) or a copyright line as this will mislead readers.

*Licence to Publish*
It is a condition of publication in Bioinformatics that authors grant an
exclusive licence to Oxford University Press. This ensures that requests
from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and
consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely
disseminated as possible. As part of the licence agreement, Authors may
use their own material in other publications provided that
Bioinformatics is acknowledged as the original place of publication and
Oxford University Press as the Publisher. Information about the New
Creative Commons licence can be found here
<http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/bioinformatics/for_authors/creativecommons.pdf>.

*Author Self-Archiving/Public Access policy from May 2005*
For information about this journal's policy, please visit our Author
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*Scientific Misconduct*
When dealing with potential cases of misconduct the journal follows the
guidelines provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics
<http://www.publicationethics.org.uk/> (COPE).

*Bioinformatics Advance Access*
/Bioinformatics/ Advance Access is the journal's system for the early
online publication of articles ahead of the printed issue. Manuscripts
will be published online as soon as possible after they have been
accepted, with updates on a weekly basis. In order to achieve this rapid
publication time, the accepted manuscript is published online before
copyediting and formatting has been carried out. Appearance in Advance
Access constitutes official publication, and the Advance Access version
can be cited by a unique DOI (Digital Object Identifier). The accepted
manuscript is then copyedited and typeset as normal, before print and
online publication of the final version. Both versions of the paper
continue to be accessible and citable.


    OPEN ACCESS OPTION FOR AUTHORS

/Bioinformatics /authors have the *option*, at an additional charge, to
make their paper freely available online immediately upon publication,
under the
/_Oxford Open _/_initiative_ </oxfordopen/>. After your manuscript is
accepted, as part of the mandatory licence form
<http://www.oxfordjournals.org/bioinformatics/for_authors/licence.pdf>
required of all corresponding authors, you will be asked to indicate
whether or not you wish to pay to have your paper made freely available
immediately. If you do not select the Open Access option, your paper
will be published with standard subscription-based access and you will
not be charged.

For those selecting the Open Access option, the charges for
/Bioinformatics/ vary depending on the institution at which the
Corresponding author is based (see below). Charges also vary depending
on whether the paper is an Original Paper or an Application Note.
Discovery Notes are charged at the same rate as Application Notes
(please select Application Note on the online charge form for the
purposes of Open Access).

*ORIGINAL PAPERS - optional /Oxford Open/ charges:*
For a Corresponding author based at an institution with an online
subscription to /Bioinformatics/:
Regular charge per paper - £800 / $1500
List B developing country charge* - £400 / $750
List A developing country charge* - £0 / $0

For a Corresponding author based at an institution that does not
subscribe to the online journal:
Regular charge per paper - £1500 / $2800
List B developing country charge* - £750 / $1400
List A developing country charge* - £0 / $0

*APPLICATION NOTES - optional /Oxford Open/ charges:*
For a Corresponding author based at an institution with an online
subscription to /Bioinformatics/:
Regular charge per paper - £400 / $750
List B developing country charge* - £200 / $375
List A developing country charge* - £0 / $0

For a Corresponding author based at an institution that does not
subscribe to the online journal:
Regular charge per paper - £750 / $1400
List B developing country charge* - £375 / $700
List A developing country charge* - £0 / $0

*Visit _http://www.oxfordjournals.org/jnls/devel/_ </jnls/devel/> for
list of qualifying countries

The above Open Access charges are in addition to any page charges and
colour charges that might apply.

Orders from UK will be subject to a 17.5% VAT charge. For orders from
the rest of the EU, we will assume that the service is provided for
business purposes, please provide a VAT number for yourself or your
institution and ensure you account for your own local VAT correctly.

If you choose the Open Access option you will also be asked to complete
an _Open Access charge form </oxfordopen/forms>_ online. You will be
automatically directed to the appropriate version of the form depending
on whether you are based at an institution with an online subscription
to /Bioinformatics/. Therefore please make sure that you are using an
institutional computer when accessing the form. To check whether you are
based at a subscribing institution please use the _Subscriber Test
</oxfordopen/forms>_ link for /Bioinformatics/.


    MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

Papers must be clearly and concisely written in English and within the
recommended length. In the interests of speed, manuscripts are not
extensively copyedited and authors are requested to check their texts
carefully before submitting them so that proofs will require only
correction of typographical errors.

*How to prepare text and figures*

For guidelines on the types of documents that can be uploaded to the
online submission system, please click here
<http://www.oxfordjournals.org/bioinformatics/for_authors/guideline_document_upload.pdf>.
*Please note: This journal does not accept Microsoft Word 2007 documents
at this time. Please use Word's "Save As" option to save your document
as an older (.doc) file type.*

Prepare your figures at publication quality resolution, using
applications capable of generating high-resolution .tif files (1200
d.p.i. for line drawings and 300 d.p.i. for colour and half-tone
artwork). The printing process requires your figures to be in this
format if your paper is accepted and printed. For useful information on
preparing your figures for publication, go to http://cpc.cadmus.com/da.
For online submission, please also prepare a second version of your
figures at low-resolution for use in the review process; these versions
of the figures can be saved in .jpg, .gif, .tif or .eps format. For
INITIAL submission, it is preferable that you insert the low-resolution
versions of the figures and tables into the word processing but you can
also upload these versions as separate files.

*Sections of the manuscript*

Please subdivide manuscripts into the following sequence of sections,
according to the type of paper:

    * *Original papers:* Title page, Structured Abstract, Introduction,
      System and methods, Algorithm, Implementation, Discussion, References.
    * *Reviews:* May be in a format best suited to subject matter, but
      should include Title page, Structured Abstract, Text, References.
      For clarity the main body of text should be sub-divided into sections.
    * *Applications notes:* Title page, Short Structured Abstract, Text.
    * *Discovery notes:* The description of the analysis can be up to
      four pages long including one or two figures. Please include an
      abstract. Sequences must be freely available in the database and
      the results of the analyses should not have been published elsewhere.

*Title page*

The title should be short, specific and informative, avoiding if
possible version number and the words: tool, package, application,
software (and similar). The surname and initials of each author should
be followed by his/her department, Institution, city with postal code
and country. Any changes of address may be added to the footnotes. The
author to whom offprint requests are to be sent should be indicated by
an asterisk and the footnote 'To whom correspondence should be
addressed'. Please provide a running head of not more than 50 characters.

*Structured Abstract (see recent issues of journal for examples)*

/Original papers/

Abstracts are structured with a standard layout such that the text is
divided into sub-sections under the following five headings: Motivation,
Results, Availability, Contact and Supplementary Information. In cases
where authors feel the headings inappropriate, some flexibility is
allowed. The abstracts should be succinct and contain only material
relevant to the headings. A maximum of 150 words is recommended. If
internet hyperlinks are available for any part of the abstract, then
this should be given in the form of 'clickable text', i.e.{{http://www...}}.

    * /Motivation:/ This section should specifically state the
      scientific question within the context of the field of study.
    * /Results:/ This section should summarize the scientific advance or
      novel results of the study, and its impact on computational biology.
    * /Availability:/ This section should state software availability if
      the paper focuses mainly on software development or on the
      implementation of an algorithm. Examples are: free availability
      over the internet on WWW or ftp server; available on request from
      the authors; or available as a commercial package. The complete
      address (URL) should be given. If the manuscript describes new
      software tools or the implementation of novel algorithms the
      software must be freely available to non-commercial users. Authors
      must also ensure that the software is available for a full TWO
      YEARS following publication. The editors of Bioinformatics
      encourage authors to make their source code available and, if
      possible, to provide access through an open source license (see
      www.opensource.org <http://www.opensource.org> for examples.
    * /Contact:/Full email address to be given, preferably an
      institution email address.
    * Supplementary information: Links to additional figures/data
      available on a web site, pr reference to online-only supplementary
      data available at the journal's web site.

/Applications Notes/

Abstracts for Applications Notes are much shorter than those for an
Original Paper. They are structured with four headings: Summary,
Availability, Copntact and Supplementary Information.

    * /Summary:/ This section should summarize the purpose/novel
      features of the program in one or two sentences.
    * /Availability:/ Availability of software and URL (ftp or WWW
      address) for internet access to be stated.
    * /Contact:/ Full E-mail address to be supplied, preferably an
      institution address.
    * /Supplementary information:/ Links to additional figures/data
      available on a web site, or reference to online-only Supplementary
      data available at the journal's web site.

*Introduction, Systems and Methods, Algorithm, Implementation,
Discussion and Conclusion *

These should conform to standard scientific reporting style. Previous
work in the field should be mentioned. Sufficient information should be
given so that an application can be re-implemented. A test data set and
results must be provided (where appropriate).

*References*

Authors are responsible for the accuracy of the References. Published
articles and those in press (state the journal which has accepted them)
may be included. In the text, a reference should be cited by author and
date and enclosed by round brackets; not more than two authors may be
cited per reference; if there are more than two authors use et al.
References must NOT be numbered. At the end of the manuscript, the
citations should be given in alphabetical order, with the author's
surname followed by the initial. References should include in the
following order: author, year, paper title, journal title, volume
number, inclusive page numbers. The name of the journal should be
abbreviated according to the World List of Scientific Periodicals. Book
references should also include the editors and the name and address of
the publisher. References should therefore be listed as follows:

    * Myasnikova,E. et al. (2000) Registration of the expression
      patterns of Drosophila segmentation genes by two independent
      methods. /Bioinformatics/, 17, 3-12.
    * Schäfer,J. and Strimmer,K. (2005) An empirical Bayes approach to
      inferring large-scale gene association networks. /Bioinformatics/,
      21, 754-764.
    * Lonsdale,D.M., Hodge,T.P. and Stoehr,P.J. (1984) A computer
      program for the management of small cosmid banks. In Soll,D. and
      Roberts,R.J. (eds),
      /The Applications of Computers to Research on Nucleic Acids II
      Part 2/. IRL Press, Oxford, pp. 429-436.

Personal communications (J.Smith, personal communication) should be
authorized by those involved in writing, and unpublished data should be
cited as (unpublished data). Both should be used as sparingly as
possible and only when the unpublished data referred to is peripheral
rather than central to the discussion. Personal communications,
unpublished results, manuscripts submitted or in preparation,
statistical packages, computer programs and web sites should be cited in
the text only, NOT included in the References section. References to
manuscripts accepted for publication but not yet published should be
included in the reference list as 'in press'.

*Funding*

Details of all funding sources for the work in question should be given
in a separate section entitled 'Funding'. This should appear before the
'Acknowledgements' section. The following rules should be followed: the
full official funding agency name should be given, i.e. ‘National
Institutes of Health’, not ‘NIH’; grant numbers should be given in
brackets; multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma;
agencies should be separated by a semi-colon; no extra wording like
'Funding for this work was provided by ...' should be used; where
individuals need to be specified for certain sources of funding the
following text should be added after the relevant agency or grant number
'to [author initials]'. An example is given here: ‘National Institutes
of Health (CB5453961 to C.S., DB645473 to M.H.); Funding Agency
(hfygr667789).’

*Acknowledgements*

These should be included at the end of the text and not in footnotes.
Please ensure you acknowledge all sources of funding, see funding
section above.

*Tables*

Tables should be included separately from the text and be numbered
consecutively. Tables should be self-explanatory and include a brief
descriptive title. Footnotes to tables should be indicated by lower case
letters but should not include extensive experimental detail.

*Figures*

All figures should be referred to in the text as Figure 1 etc. They
should follow the main body of the text and their approximate final
positions indicated in the margin of the text. Where available, the
figures should be submitted in electronic form e.g. as a postscript
file. All figures should be formatted to fit into, or be reduced to, a
single (86 mm) or double (178 mm) column width. Figure legends should
appear on a separate page.

    * /Web screen dumps:/ The editors prefer tables or figures instead
      of web screen dumps. All figures should have a white background to
      increase the contrast between the illustration and the background,
      so that the figure is easy to read.
    * /Line illustrations:/ These must be of sufficient quality for
      publication as submitted, i.e. clear, sharp, clean and of even
      density. Figures will NOT be redrawn or relabelled. Any lettering
      or text should be in proportion with the rest of the figure.
    * /Photographs:/ These must be of sufficient quality with respect to
      detail, contrast, and fineness of grain to withstand the
      unavoidable loss of contrast inherent in the printing process.
    * /Colour figures:/ Inclusion of colour figures is subject to a
      special charge (£350/US$600 to print a figure in colour).
    * /Online-only colour figures:/ Colour figures can be uploaded as
      Supplementary Data at no extra charge. Please contact the
      bioinformatics@oxfordjournals.org for details.

*Conventions*

In general, the journal follows the conventions of the CBE Style
Manual(Council of Biology Editors, Bethesda, MD, 1983, 5th edition).
Follow Chemical Abstracts and its indices for chemical names. For
guidance in the use of biochemical terminology follow the
recommendations issued by the IUPAC-IUB Commission on Biochemical
Nomenclature, as given in Biochemical Nomenclature and Related
Documents, published by the Biochemical Society, UK. For enzymes, use
the recommended name assigned by the IUPAC-IUB Committee on Biochemical
Nomenclature, 1978, as given in Enzyme Nomenclature, published by
Academic Press, New York, 1980. Where possible, use the recommended SI
units. Genotypes should be italicized. Phenotypes should not be
italicized. For bacterial agents nomenclature follow Demarc et al.
(1966) Genetics, 54, 61-76.

*LATEX*

TEX-based manuscripts should be produced using the LATEX article style
format only. The document style options used must indicate two-column
text with 86 mm column widths.

*Proofs*

Authors are sent page proofs by email. These should be checked
immediately and returned to the publishers by email or fax (further
details are supplied with the proof). A charge may be made to authors
who insist on amendment within the text at the page proof stage.

*Offprints*

Authors will receive electronic access to their paper free of charge.
Printed offprints may be purchased in multiples of 100. Rates are
indicated on the order form which must be returned with the proofs.
Orders for printed offprints received after the deadline will be subject
to a 100% surcharge.


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