''Bioinformatics'' (sometimes called ''Bioinformatics Oxford journal'') is a biweekly

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covering research and software in

bioinformatics Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, in particular when the data sets are large and complex. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combi ...

and

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. It is the official journal of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), together with ''

PLOS Computational Biology ''PLOS Computational Biology'' is a monthly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering computational biology. It was established in 2005 by the Public Library of Science in association with the International Society for Computatio ...

''. Authors can pay extra for

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and are allowed to self-archive after 1 year. The journal was established as ''Computer Applications in the Biosciences'' (''CABIOS'') in 1985. The founding

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was Robert J. Beynon. In 1998, the journal obtained its current name and established an online version of the journal. It is published by

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and, as of 2014, the editors-in-chief are

Alfonso Valencia Alfonso Valencia is a Spanish biologist, ICREA Professor, current director of the Life Sciences department at Barcelona Supercomputing Center. and of Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB-ISCIII). From 2015-2018, he was President of the ...

and

Janet Kelso Janet Kelso (born 1975) is a South African computational biologist and Group leader of the Minerva Research Group for Bioinformatics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. She is best known for her work comparing DNA from pre ...

. Previous editors include Chris Sander, Gary Stormo, Christos Ouzounis, Martin Bishop, and Alex Bateman. In 2014, these five editors were appointed the first Honorary Editors of ''Bioinformatics''. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2019

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of 5.610 From 1998 to 2004, ''Bioinformatics'' was the official journal of the ISCB. In 2004, as many ISCB members had institutional subscriptions to ''Bioinformatics'', ISCB decided not to renew its contract with the journal. As of 2005, ''PLOS Computational Biology'' became the official ISCB journal. In January 2009 ''Bioinformatics'' again became an official journal of the ISCB, alongside ''PLOS Computational Biology''. The proceedings of the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology conference and the European Conference on Computational Biology have been published in special issues of ''Bioinformatics'' since 2001 and 2002, respectively. Following budget problems, Greek universities dropped their subscriptions to ''Bioinformatics'' in 2013.

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