Scope
IPSJ Transactions on Bioinformatics (TBIO) is an academic journal
published by the Information Processing Society of Japan (
IPSJ). TBIO mainly publishes
peer-reviewed research papers in English, focusing on bioinformatics,
computational biology, as well as any related areas. TBIO is edited and
managed by the Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics (
SIGBIO), IPSJ.
All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Evaluation is done based upon
the merits of the paper. Papers which present originality or usefulness
will be considered for publication. Papers may be evaluated on their
future value. Competent level of English writing is required. TBIO is
an online journal via
J-Stage. TBIO is currently
operated as an open access online journal.
Table of Contents
See
TBIO in J-Stage.
Evaluation Principle
All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Evaluation is done based upon
the merits of the paper. Papers which present originality or usefulness
will be considered for publication. Papers may be evaluated on their
future value. Competent level of English writing is required.
Paper Contributions
- Only English papers will be accepted.
- Submissions will only be accepted by
e-mail. Further communications will be done all through e-mails.
- Five categories of submissions are as
follows.
- Original Paper
- Paper stating original research results.
- Survey Paper
- Paper providing a survey of past or existing research.
Usefulness of the survey must be made clear to the judges.
- Database/Software Paper
- Paper which introduces a novel database or software
development, etc. Differences from current databases or software must
been shown.
- Case Study Paper
- Descriptions of cases with problems on the spot. The paper must include the way to solve the problems and the effectiveness must be verified with objective evidence and carry a new or important message.
- Technical Note
- Technical notes report the latest results in research and development, or present novel technical proposals.
- The length of a paper except for technical note
should be at least three pages (in the final format). The length of technical note should be less than four pages (in the final format).
- The contents of a submission should
never be the same as those that have been submitted to, nor published
in, another journal. This is regardless of the language the paper was
published in. In other cases, the authors are responsible for the
copyright issues and if accepted the copyrights shall be transferred to
the IPSJ.
Submission Process
- First, send the paper submission form
to trans-bio-editors@ipsj.or.jp. The
form is available from here.
- Immediately after the above step, send
another e-mail to the same e-mail address, with the paper attached.
- Acceptable formats of the electronic
data are MS-WORD or PDF only. If the file is greater than 1MB, please
compress using gzip, LHA, or similar software, and specify the
compression software used. Figures and tables must be reproducible with
sufficient quality.
Review Process
- Confirmation of submission will be
sent to the author generally within three days, and the editor in
charge of this submission will be notified within one week.
- Each paper except for technical note will be peer-reviewed by
two or more reviewers. Technical note will be peer-reviewed by one or more reviewers.
- The review result will be notified to
the author generally within one month.
- If revisions are needed, revision
period is for one month after receiving the results of the review.
Other Details
- Final Manuscript
- All IPSJ transactions use the same style. The author guide for
preparing the final manuscript can be found at IPSJ site. Each
accepted paper is usually published a few months after the final
manuscript is received.
- Copyright
- The copyright of the accepted paper belongs to the Information
Processing Society of Japan as of the date of acceptance. Further
detail can be found at IPSJ site.
- Publication Fee
- The author is requested to pay the publication fee (12,528 JPY/page : 2016/May/30).
- Qualification to Paper Submission
- It is not necessary for the author to be a member of the IPSJ,
nor registered to IPSJ/SIGBIO. However, we encourage IPSJ membership
and SIGBIO registration.
- Presentation at a Technical Meeting
- Presentation at one of the SIGBIO technical meetings is required
for publication. Presentation after the publication is acceptable.
Editorial Board
- Editor in Chief
- Yoichi TAKENAKAiKansai Universityj
- Co-Editor in Chief
- Kimihito ITO (Hokkaido University)
- Kengo KINOSHITA (Tohoku University)
- Susumu GOTO (Database Center for Life Science)
- Tetsuo SHIBUYA (University of Tokyo)
- Managing Editors
- Tatsuya AKUTSU (Kyoto University)
- Toshinori ENDO (Hokkaido University)
- Masahito OHUE (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
- Takenao OKAWA (Kobe University)
- Takeshi OBAYASHI (Tohoku University)
- Yuki KATO (Osaka University)
- Hiroyuki KURATA (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
- Kengo SATO (Keio University)
- Masakazu SEKIJIMA (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
- Jun SESE (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
- Yoshihiro TAGUCHI (Chuo University)
- Junichiro YOSHIMOTO (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)