The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced the launch of the fourth journal in its Science Partner Journal program, BioDesign Research, published in affiliation with Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU). The journal will be distributed by AAAS in association with NAU, institutions that have partnered previously to publish the Science Partner Journal Plant Phenomics.
The mission of BioDesign Research is to provide a platform for information exchange in the interdisciplinary field of biosystems design. Studies published in the journal should pave the way towards the predictable de novo design of engineered and reengineered living organisms to address global challenges in health, agriculture, and the environment.
BioDesign Research will publish high-quality, innovative research, reviews, editorials, and perspectives focusing on in silico biosystems design, genetic or epigenetic modifications, and genome writing or rewriting. This work could be done in any model organism.
Serving as co-Editors in Chief of BioDesign Research will be Professor Xiaohan Yang, Senior Staff Scientist of the Plant Systems Biology Group in the Biosciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Professor Stanley Qi (Lei S. Qi), Assistant Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Bioengineering, the Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, and the Stanford ChEM-H Institute; and Professor Alfonso Jaramillo, Chair of Synthetic Biology at the University of Warwick and Research Professor at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. Joint Professor Zong-Ming (Max) Cheng of the University of Tennessee and Nanjing Agricultural University will serve as the Executive Editor. Huan Yin, at Nanjing Agricultural University, will serve as the Managing Editor, leveraging her experience as Managing Editor of Horticulture Research and Plant Phenomics.
BioDesign Research will open for submissions in September 2019 and the journal hopes to begin publishing at the end of 2019. The journal will publish under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
New titles participating in the Science Partner Journal program will launch on a regular basis and participation in the program is kept to English-language publications. AAAS is actively seeking new partners across scientific disciplines. Organisations participating in the Science Partner Journal program will be editorially independent and responsible for the content published in each journal. Partner organizations are responsible for establishing editorial boards committed to best practices in peer review and author service.
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