我和电子科技大学信息生物学研究中心的林昊研究员、国防科技大学计算机学院的彭绍亮教授一起在国际生物科学杂志（IJBS, International Journal of Biological Sciences）上发起了一个题为生物学研究中的计算资源与方法的专刊（Special Issue on Computational Resources and Methods in Biological Sciences），初步计划组织发表1篇社论及12-15篇研究论文和综述。国际生物科学杂志（IJBS）近几年的影响因子在4左右，目前在中科院分区表中属于生物学大类的二区期刊。欢迎各位计算生物学与生物信息学同行赐稿。希望在各位同行的帮助下，我们能办出一期集思广益、凝心聚力、共谋发展的专刊，一期民主和谐、团结奋进、求真务实的专刊，一期解放思想、实事求是、畅所欲言的专刊（此处引用我党会议），共同推动生物信息学的发展。希望在此基础上，IJBS能够每年推出一期计算生物学与生物信息学的专刊。

Special Issue on Computational Resources and Methods in Biological Sciences

Guest editors:
Jian Huang, Professor
Center for Informational Biology
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Dr. Hao Lin
Center for Informational Biology
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Shaoliang Peng, Professor
School of Computer Science
National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China

During the past decades, computational biology has become an increasingly important research area in biological sciences. With the new generation technologies becoming cheaper and more popular in biolabs, huge volumes of biological data output is driving biology somehow to be a kind of data science. Therefore, computational resources and methods are playing a significant role in many biological studies. Big data in biological sciences are waiting for  better curation, more efficient analysis, more precise interpretation, more accurate modelling and prediction.

We invite authors to contribute review articles and research papers on computational resources and methods for all aspects of biological studies. This special issue aims to provide an open, multidisciplinary forum for biological databases, web services, stand alone programs, relevant algorithms and methods for data mining and knowledge discovery in biology.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• New biological database or lasting database with substantial updates;

• New biological web services or existing web services with substantial updates;

• New or better standalone biological programs and tools;

• New or better pipelines and workflows for biodata processing and mining;

• New or better algorithms, workflows, and methods for biological studies.

Authors should prepare their manuscripts in MS Word according to http://www.ijbs.com/ms/author and submit them at http://www.ijbs.com/ms/submit?subgroup=CRMBS (mark "Computational Resources and Methods Special Issue" in the "Suggested reviewers" field to identify the paper).

Schedule
Manuscript due: December 28, 2017
Peer review due: January 28, 2018
Revision Due: February 28, 2018
Publication Date: March 28, 2018

Detailed formatting instructions, in particular, the formatting of references, can be found in http://www.ijbs.com/ms/author.