Frontiers in Bioinformatics

Open Access Policy: Articles are published under an open-access model and are freely available to readers.

License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY), according to the publisher's open-access statement.

Peer Review Policy: Single-anonymized peer review, with manuscripts evaluated by the relevant editorial team and community reviewers.

Publication Ethics: The journal is listed as a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Originality and Plagiarism: Submitted manuscripts must comply with publication ethics requirements and originality standards.

Research Integrity: Authors are responsible for accurate reporting, appropriate validation, and transparent presentation of methods and results.

Data and Code Availability: Authors should provide data availability statements and make supporting data, software, and code accessible where appropriate, subject to ethical, legal, and licensing restrictions.

Conflicts of Interest: Authors must disclose relevant competing interests.

Corrections and Retractions: Post-publication corrections and other editorial actions are handled according to the publisher's applicable policies.

Editorial Independence: Editorial decisions are made through the journal's editorial process, independently of whether an article processing charge can be paid.

Authors must submit manuscripts to the most appropriate specialty section and ensure that their work makes a clear contribution to bioinformatics or computational biology.

Manuscripts should provide a clear research objective, appropriate computational methods, relevant validation, and sufficient technical detail to support reproducibility.

Authors must:

• Follow the journal's current manuscript preparation and submission requirements.
• Select an article type accepted by the chosen specialty section.
• Include a title, abstract, keywords, references, figures, tables, and supplementary materials where applicable.
• Describe computational methods, datasets, software, parameters, and analytical workflows in sufficient detail.
• Validate algorithms, models, and computational tools using appropriate benchmarks or independent datasets when relevant.
• Explain the biological or biomedical relevance of the findings.
• Disclose funding, author contributions, and competing interests.
• Obtain applicable ethics approvals for research involving human participants, animals, or sensitive biological data.
• Provide a data availability statement and share code or other research materials when appropriate and permitted.
• Respond to editorial and reviewer comments during peer review.

Authors should consult the specific requirements of their selected specialty section before submitting.