BioSystems encourages theoretical, computational and experimental articles that link biology, evolutionary concepts, and the information processing sciences. The journal is dedicated to developing the consequences of the discoveries of biological information and of the genetic code - with the view of obtaining a better understanding of the origins and evolution of biological organization, biological adaptability, and the origin of mind and language.

The scope of the journal encompasses the fundamental nature of biological information processing. This includes quantum phenomena in information transfer, natural computing, biological coding systems, biological complexity, theoretical biology, artificial life, computational modeling of complex biological systems, evolutionary models of computation, application of biological principles to the design of novel computing systems, and the use of biomolecular materials to synthesize artificial systems that capture essential principles of natural biological information processing.

The journal does not publish purely medical, computational, or ecological research, unless it is clearly linked to the basic and conceptual aspects of biological organization.

The editors encourage articles that deal, in particular, with the following topics:
Biological computation
Molecular recognition
Physical foundations of biology
Quantum phenomena in biological systems
Cellular control
Neuromolecular computing
Biological coding systems
Molecular computing processes
Self-organizing and self-replicating systems
Origins and evolution of the genetic mechanism
Stochastic evolutionary algorithms
Origins and evolution of mind and language
Simulation of genetic and ecological systems
Applications (neural nets, machine learning, robotics)



In addition, the editors encourage the following types of papers for submission:
Papers that extract novel biological insights from multidimensional data using AI-driven language models
Biological hypothesis papers producing new insights based on a body of pre-existing empirical research

Regular Papers
Application Notes
Book Reviews
Review Articles

Editor-in-Chief
Abir Igamberdiev
Abir Igamberdiev
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Editors
Marcello Barbieri
University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
Gary Fogel
Natural Selection Inc, San Diego, California, United States
Koichiro Matsuno
Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Japan
Stefan Schuster
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
Reviews Editor
Hidde de Jong
Inria Research Centre Grenoble Rhône-Alpes, Saint Ismier, France
Associate Editors
Andrew Adamatzky
University of the West of England Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Lee Altenberg
University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Daniel Ashlock
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
Marcello Barbieri
University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
Madhu Chetty
Federation University Australia School of Science Engineering and Information Technology, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Geneviève Dupont
ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium
Péter Érdi
Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
Elena Fimmel
Elena Fimmel
University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Dmitrij Frishman
Technical University of Munich School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Freising, Germany
Richard Gordon
Richard Gordon
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
Yukio-Pegio Gunji
Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
Haralampos Hatzikirou
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
David Hecht
Southwestern College, Chula Vista, California, United States
Jan-Hendrik Hofmeyr
Stellenbosch University Centre for Complex Systems in Transition, Matieland, South Africa
Takashi Ikegami
The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan
Yaochu Jin
University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
Steffen Klamt
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg, Germany
Michael Lones
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Marko Marhl
University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
Hiroshi Matsuno
Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan
Steady Mushayabasa
Steady Mushayabasa
University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
Chrystopher Nehaniv
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Christos Ouzounis
Cambridge, UK
Thorsten Pöschel
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
Anu Raghunathan
National Chemical Laboratory CSIR, Pune, India
Mateen Rizki
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, United States
Pasquale Stano
University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
Koji Tamura
Tokyo University of Science Department of Biological Engineering, Tokyo, Japan
Denis Thieffry
University College Paris, Paris, France
Jack Adam Tuszynski
University of Alberta Department of Oncology, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Andy Tyrrell
University of York, York, United Kingdom
Yingxu Wang
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Allan Willms
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada