Journal of Computational Biology publishes articles whose primary contributions are the development and application of new methods in computational biology, including algorithmic, statistical, mathematical, machine learning and artificial intelligence contributions. The journal welcomes novel methods that tackle established problems within computational biology; novel methods and frameworks that anticipate new problems and data types arising in computational biology; and novel methods that are inspired from studying natural computation.  Methods should be tested on real and/or simulated biological data whenever feasible.  Papers whose primary contributions are theoretical are also welcome.  Available only online, this is an essential journal for scientists and students who want to keep abreast of developments in bioinformatics and computational biology.

Research Articles:  Research articles describe new methodology development and application in computational biology.  It is recommended that manuscripts should be approximately 3,000 words, excluding tables, figures, legends, abstract, disclosure or references; longer articles can also be submitted. Research articles should include the following sections, in order: abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion and references.

Software articles:  Short 2-4 page articles describing implementations of new or recently developed computational methods for applications in computational biology.   The approaches underlying the software should have methodologically interesting components. Software articles can be published as companion articles to primary research articles which describe the main methodological contributions.   Software article submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter that concisely states the novel implementation and algorithmic challenges the software tackles.

Executive Editorial Board 
Sorin Istrail, PhD
   Co-Editor-in-Chief
Brown University

Michael S. Waterman, PhD
   Co-Editor-in-Chief
University of Southern California 

Pavel Pevzner, PhD
University of California, San Diego
Bonnie Berger
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Associate Editors
Soren Brunak
Technical University of Denmark
Gary Churchill
The Jackson Laboratory
Fred Cohen
University of California, San Francisco
Susan Davidson
University of Pennsylvania
Mikhail Gelfand
Institute of Protein Research
Russian Academy of Sciences
Phil Green
University of Washington
David Haussler
University of California, Santa Cruz

Simon Kasif
Boston University

Kenneth Lange
University of California, Los Angeles
Thomas Lengauer
Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Eugene Myers
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics 
Steven L. Salzberg
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
David Sankoff
University of Ottawa

Sophie Schbath
INRA, Unite Mathematique, Informatique & Genome, France 
Ron Shamir
Tel Aviv University
Terry Speed
University of California, Berkeley
Simon Tavaré
University of Southern California
Martin Vingron
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
Editorial Board
Tatsuya Akutsu
Kyoto University
Alberto Apostolico
Georgia Institute of Technology and Universitá di Padova
Vineet Bafna 
University of California, San Diego
Serafim Batzoglou 
Stanford University
Craig J. Benham
University of California, Davis 
David Botstein
Princeton University

Elbert Branscomb
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Douglas Brutlag
Stanford University
Christina Curtis
Stanford University School of Medicine
Andreas Dress
Universität Bielefeld
Joe Felsenstein
University of Washington
Alexei Finkelstein
Russian Academy of Sciences
Liliana Florea
Johns Hopkins University
David Galas
Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute

Dan Gusfield
University of California, Davis

Jing-Dong Jackie Han  
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Leroy Hood
Institute for Systems Biology
Haiyan Huang
University of California, Berkeley
Minoru Kanehisa
Kyoto University
Maricel Kann
University of Maryland
Richard Karp
University of California, Berkeley

Michal Linial 
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Webb Miller
Pennsylvania State University

Satoru Miyano
The University of Tokyo
Laxmi Parida 
Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Alan Perelson
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Isabelle Peter
California Institute of Technology

Teresa Przytycka
National Institutes of Health
Gesine Reinert
University of Oxford
Fred S. Roberts
Rutgers University
Chris Sander
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 
David Schwartz
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Russell Schwartz 
Carnegie Mellon University
David Searls
GlaxoSmithKline
Roded Sharan 
Tel-Aviv University
Mona Singh
Princeton University
Temple Smith
Boston University
David States
University of Michigan
Mike Steel
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
De Witt Sumners
Florida State University
Elizabeth Thompson
University of Washington

Wei Wang
University of California, Los Angeles
Wing H. Wong
Stanford University
Jinbo Xu
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago