Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP), UK, has announced a new publishing partnership with the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). Under the deal, the journal Bioinformatics will once again become an official journal of the ISCB from this year.
Bioinformatics and the ISCB have shared close links which will be further strengthened under the new official partnership. ISCB members will benefit from a substantial discount on the individual subscription price to Bioinformatics and other Oxford Journals titles, and Bioinformatics will continue to publish the annual ISMB conference Proceedings. New plans under the partnership include ISCB memberships for around 200 Bioinformatics authors each year.
Bioinformatics publishes the scientific papers and review articles of interest to academic and industrial researchers. Its main focus is on new developments in genome bioinformatics and computational biology. Two distinct sections within the journal - Discovery Notes and Application Notes - focus on shorter papers; the former reporting biologically interesting discoveries using computational methods, the latter exploring the applications used for experiments.
