Molecular Systems Biology Journal

Systems biology is an integrative discipline that seeks to explain the properties and behavior of complex biological systems in terms of their components and their interactions.

Molecular Systems Biology is a peer-reviewed open-access journal that publishes high-quality research in the fields of systems biology, synthetic biology and systems medicine.

The Editors select manuscripts based on their novelty and wide biological significance. Although the primary emphasis of the journal is on molecular components and their interactions, systems studies at the organ level may also be considered. Works describing large-scale datasets will be judged, in part, by the extent to which these datasets are integrated both with each other and with computational models, with the ultimate aim to better understand the dynamic and complex nature of living systems. Reports of new experimental methods will also be considered in the context of this policy.

Topics falling within the scope of the journal include, but are not limited to:

integrative genome-scale biology 

quantitative biology

computational biology 

metabolic and regulatory networks 

evolution of genomes and biological networks

clinical and translational systems biology 

synthetic biology and genome-scale biological engineering

Molecular Systems Biology publishes research articles as full-length Articles or short Reports. The journal also publishes Methods, Reviews, News & Views, Opinions, Correspondences, Commentaries and Editorials.

EDITORIAL TEAM

M. Madan Babu (Chief Editor)

Madan completed a PhD in Computational Genomics at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, UK in 2004. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the NCBI, National Health Institutes, USA, he returned to the LMB as group leader in 2006. He heads the regulatory genomics and systems biology group, which investigates how regulation is achieved in cellular systems and how this influences evolution of organisms and their genome.

Thomas Lemberger (Associate Editor)

Thomas completed his PhD at the University of Lausanne, where he studied hormonal regulation of gene expression by nuclear receptors. He moved then to Heidelberg where his research focused on the regulation of transcription in the brain.

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Maria Polychronidou (Senior Scientific Editor)

Maria received her PhD from the University of Heidelberg, where she studied the role of nuclear membrane proteins in development and aging. During her post-doctoral work, she focused on the analysis of tissue-specific regulatory functions of Hox transcription factors using a combination of computational and genome-wide methods.

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Jingyi Hou (Scientific Editor)

Jingyi received her PhD from the Free University Berlin / Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, where she dissected cis-regulatory mechanisms that control mRNA translation using various mouse models. As a post-doc, she joined the laboratory of Erin O’Shea at the HHMI - Janelia Research Campus in USA, where she focused on the role of RNA methylation in the nervous system development and in learning and memory formation.

msb@embo.org

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