RNA Biology is a peer review

Peer review

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ed scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 in the field of ribonucleic acid (RNA) research. It is indexed for MEDLINE

MEDLINE

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Editor-in-Chief is Renée Schroeder from the University of Vienna

University of Vienna

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, and Paul P. Gardner from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is Assistant Editor-in-Chief.

The journal launched a new section for descriptions of families of RNA molecules in December 2008 and requires contributing authors to also submit a draft article on the RNA family for publication in Wikipedia

Wikipedia

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. The journal will submit the draft Wikipedia article to peer review and then publish it in Wikipedia. The Wikipedia-publishing initiative is a collaboration between the journal and the consortium that produces the Rfam

Rfam

Rfam is a database containing information about non-coding RNA families and other structured RNA elements. It is an annotated, open access database hosted by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in collaboration with Janelia Farm...

database of RNA families.