The ''Journal of Molecular Biology'' is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of

molecular biology Molecular biology is the branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecular basis of biological activity in and between cells, including biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactions. The study of chemical and physi ...

. It was established in 1959 and is published by

Elsevier Elsevier () is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. Its products include journals such as '' The Lancet'', ''Cell'', the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, '' Trends'', ...

. The

editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...

is Peter Wright ( The Scripps Research Institute).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 5.469.

Notable articles

Some of the most highly cited articles that have appeared in the journal are: *, in which Jacques Monod, Jeffries Wyman, and Jean-Pierre Changeux presented the

MWC model In biochemistry, the Monod-Wyman-Changeux model (MWC model, also known as the symmetry model) describes allosteric transitions of proteins made up of identical subunits. It was proposed by Jean-Pierre Changeux in his PhD thesis, and described by ...

, that explained the cooperativity exhibited by allosteric proteins, such as

hemoglobin Hemoglobin (haemoglobin BrE) (from the Greek word αἷμα, ''haîma'' 'blood' + Latin ''globus'' 'ball, sphere' + ''-in'') (), abbreviated Hb or Hgb, is the iron-containing oxygen-transport metalloprotein present in red blood cells (erythrocyt ...

. *, in which

Edwin Southern Sir Edwin Mellor Southern (born 7 June 1938) is an English Lasker Award-winning molecular biologist, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. He is most widely known for the inventio ...

presented the first description of nucleic acid blotting, a technique that revolutionized the field of molecular biology. *, in which the

Smith–Waterman algorithm The Smith–Waterman algorithm performs local sequence alignment; that is, for determining similar regions between two strings of nucleic acid sequences or protein sequences. Instead of looking at the entire sequence, the Smith–Waterman algorit ...

for determining the degree of homology of DNA, RNA, or protein sequences was first described. *, in which the nucleic acid and protein homology search algorithm known as

BLAST Blast or The Blast may refer to: *Explosion, a rapid increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner *Detonation, an exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front Film * ''Blast'' (1997 film), ...

was originally described.

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/issn/0022-2836 Elsevier academic journals Publications established in 1959 Biochemistry journals Hybrid open access journals Biweekly journals English-language journals