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Aims and scope
Biology Direct serves the life science research community as an author driven open peer review
journal, providing authors and readers with an alternative to the traditional model of peer review.
Biology Direct considers original research articles, hypotheses, comments, discovery notes,
application notes and reviews in subject areas currently identified as those most conducive to the
open review approach, primarily those with a significant non-experimental component.
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1. Opinion
Just how Lamarckian is CRISPR-Cas immunity: the continuum of
evolvability mechanisms
Eugene V. Koonin and Yuri I. Wolf
Published on: 24 February 2016
2. Application note
Altools: a user friendly NGS data analyser
Salvatore Camiolo, Gaurav Sablok and Andrea Porceddu
Published on: 17 February 2016
3. Review
Biochemistry and physiology within the framework of the extended
synthesis of evolutionary biology
Angelo Vianello and Sabina Passamonti
Published on: 9 February 2016
4. Research
Characterizing exons and introns by regularity of nucleotide strings
Tonya Woods, Thanawadee Preeprem, Kichun Lee, Woojin Chang and Brani Vidakovic
Published on: 8 February 2016
5. Research
A paneukaryotic genomic analysis of the small GTPase RABL2
underscores the significance of recurrent gene loss in eukaryote evolution
Marek Eliáš, Vladimír Klimeš, Romain Derelle, Romana Petrželková and Jan Tachezy
Published on: 2 February 2016
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1. Hypothesis
Midichlorians - the biomeme hypothesis: is there a microbial component to
religious rituals?
Alexander Y Panchin, Alexander I Tuzhikov and Yuri V Panchin
Published on: 2 July 2014
2. Research
The evolution of domain-content in bacterial genomes
Nacho Molina and Erik van Nimwegen
Published on: 11 December 2008
3. Hypothesis
On the origin of life in the Zinc world: 1. Photosynthesizing, porous
edifices built of hydrothermally precipitated zinc sulfide as cradles of life
on Earth
Armen Y Mulkidjanian
Published on: 24 August 2009
4. Hypothesis
The ancient Virus World and evolution of cells
Eugene V Koonin, Tatiana G Senkevich and Valerian V Dolja
Published on: 19 September 2006
5. Review
Bioinformatics clouds for big data manipulation
Lin Dai, Xin Gao, Yan Guo, Jingfa Xiao and Zhang Zhang
Published on: 28 November 2012
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Editors-in-Chief
Eugene Koonin, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA
Laura Landweber, Princeton University, USA
David Lipman, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA
Journal sections
Biology Direct publishes in the following sections:
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Bioinformatics
Cell Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Genomics
Mathematical Biology
Non-coding DNA & RNA
Structural & Molecular Biology
Systems Biology
For details of Section Editors and Editorial Board members, please see our Editorial Board page.
Unique model of peer review
Biology Direct offers a novel system of peer review, allowing authors to select suitable reviewers
from the journal's Editorial Board; making the peer-review process open rather than anonymous;
and making the reviewers' reports public, thus increasing the responsibility of the referees and
eliminating sources of abuse in the refereeing process.
How it works
Impact Factor
Biology Direct has an Impact Factor of 4.658, meaning the journal is now ranked in the first
quartile of the biology category in the JCR.
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