''Nucleic Acids Research'' is an

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published since 1974 by the

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. The journal covers research on

nucleic acid Nucleic acids are biopolymers, macromolecules, essential to all known forms of life. They are composed of nucleotides, which are the monomers made of three components: a 5-carbon sugar, a phosphate group and a nitrogenous base. The two main ...

s, such as DNA and RNA, and related work. According to the ''

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'', the journal's 2021

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is 19.160. The journal publishes two yearly special issues, the first issue of each year is dedicated to biological

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s, published in January since 1993, and the other is devoted to papers describing web-based software resources of value to the biological community (

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s), published in July since 2003.

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