Bioinformatics aims to publish high quality, peer-reviewed, original scientific papers and excellent review articles in the fields of computational molecular biology, biological databases and genome bioinformatics.

BMC Bioinformatics (ISSN 1471-2105) is a fully peer reviewed online journal publishing research articles with open access for all. BMC Bioinformatics covers all aspects of computational methods used in the analysis and annotation of sequences and structures, as well as all other areas of computational biology.

Publishes introductory reviews for the users of databases and analytical tools of contemporary genetics and molecular biology.

Publishes mapping data useful to future DNA sequencing, data in full, new procedures, and allied techniques.

Provides recent information concerning the use of computers in biomedicine.

Covers the nature and consequences of genome variations in humans and appropriate model systems, focusing on experimental approaches, instrumentation, and informatics technologies.

Electronic publication of bioinformatics, genetic analysis, programming, database mining, and interfacing genetic data.