Bioinformatics is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...

 scientific journal

Scientific journal

In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...

 publishing original research and software in computational biology

Computational biology

Computational biology involves the development and application of data-analytical and theoretical methods, mathematical modeling and computational simulation techniques to the study of biological, behavioral, and social systems...

. It is the official journal of the International Society for Computational Biology, together with PLoS Computational Biology

PLoS Computational Biology

PLoS Computational Biology is a peer-reviewed computational biology journal established in 2005 and published by the nonprofit Public Library of Science in association with the International Society for Computational Biology. Its Editor in Chief is Philip Bourne...

. Authors can pay extra for open access and are allowed to self-archive

Self-archiving

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 after 1 year. Bioinformatics was established in 1998 and has been published since by Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

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The editors are Alex Bateman and Alfonso Valencia.