Computational miRNomics – Integrative Approaches

With this special issue on Computational miRNomics, we would like to start a new generation of publications in the Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics (JIB). From 2017 onwards, JIB will be published by De Gruyter which is one of the largest Open Access publishers in Germany with a long history. Established in 1918 with roots reaching even further back, the JIB editorial board decided that De Gruyter is the perfect partner to increase the level of professionalism for our publication processing and journal development. While De Gruyter has a strong tradition in scientific publishing, JIB is one of the longest-running Bioinformatics journals. Established in Germany, it published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles since its inauguration in 2004. The publication archive, as well as new papers, can be found and downloaded from https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jib. From the beginning, JIB has been supported by IMBio – Information management in Biotechnology, which is a working group of the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.). More information regarding our activities as well as the previous JIB website (up to December 2016) is available from http://www.imbio.de. We publish proceedings papers, like the one from the Integrative Bioinformatics conference series, special issues like the one introduced below, as well as original research articles submitted to our journal. Whereas the issues in the past were published based on events and the cumulative number of submitted manuscripts, we are now following a new scheme, publishing each quarter of the year one issue, containing issue-related articles as well as free ones. Every article will be available online “ahead-of-print” before the compilation of the issues. In contrast to the previous publishing system which was developed more than a decade ago, the new ScholarOne-based system is up-to-date and provides a reliable and comfortable environment for our authors, reviewers, and the editorial team. We are looking forward to a new era of publications for the Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics. For this purpose, we extended our portfolio – we are now welcoming manuscripts covering the following Integrative Bioinformatics-related topics: