Thank you for your participation in MCBIOS 2017. The MCBIOS 2017 presenters who had their poster or platform abstracts accepted for presentation are eligible to submit a full paper on the work they presented to be considered for formal, peer-reviewed publication in the conference proceedings. The proceedings will appear in a special issue of BMC Bioinformatics. Past MCBIOS Proceedings have yielded an average impact factor of 5.17 (2006-12), which speaks strongly of the impact of MCBIOS and its participants in bioinformatics. The deadline for submission of these papers is Friday, April 28th, 2017.
BMC Bioinformatics is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of the development, testing and novel application of computational and statistical methods for the modeling and analysis of all kinds of biological data, as well as other areas of computational biology. Submissions must be within this scope of interest and represent original work. BMC has requested that we restrict acceptance to the top 15 papers. As such, MCBIOS will officially recognize a best paper from among those submitted and highlight it in the MCBIOS Proceedings editorial.
Formatting instructions for papers can be found on their website (http://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/submission-guidelines/preparing-your-manuscript/research-article). Authors of accepted papers will be asked to pay an article processing charge of £730 (about $913 USD at current exchange rates), an amount discounted for this event from the normal $2,145 charge. Because this is a special issue, fee waivers and institutional discounts do not apply.
If you intend to submit a paper, you must send a tentative title and abstract to the Senior Editor, (Jonathan-Wren@OMRF.org). Because BMC now has an editor make a judgement call on the appropriateness of each paper prior to publication, we will also assess suitability editorially prior to sending papers for peer-review. Papers should be submitted by email to the Senior Editor.
Timeline:
May 8, 2017 – Manuscripts should be e-mailed to Jonathan Wren
May 23, 2017 – Reviewers return comments to editors
June 13, 2017 – Revisions due back from authors
June 26, 2017 – Final decisions made on submitted papers by reviewers
July 3, 2017 – Editors notify authors of acceptability of papers
July 28, 2017 – All final manuscript revisions due to editors along with
payment of article processing charges due to MCBIOS.
