Dear Colleagues,
we would like to invite you to submit an article to a special issue of the Theoretical Computer Science journal (series C: Natural Computing) on “Foundations of Systems Biology”. This open special issue is following up CMSB'2023, the international conference series on computational methods in systems biology. The topics of the submissions must be in the intersection of the scope of CMSB and TCS series C: Natural Computing.
Submitted article should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Extended versions of manuscripts that have been published in conference proceedings (CMSB or other conferences) can be submitted to this special issue. They should contain something (at least 30%) new compared to the conference version. The differences between the two versions must be explained in the introduction. All submission should contain at least some theoretical results. The manuscripts should include all content in the article, rather than in appendices or in supplementary information.
Please prepare your article in LaTeX in the Elsevier journal paper format (https://www.elsevier.com/authors/author-schemas/latex-instructions) and submit it using the editorial manager (https://www.editorialmanager.com/TCS/default.aspx). The title of the special issue is “Foundations of Systems Biology” (short title VSI: FoundSysBio). In order to properly assign your submission to the special issue we are preparing, it is crucial to select VSI: FoundSysBio twice, as Article Type (starting the submission procedure) and Requested Editor (in Review Preferences).
All papers for the special issue will be reviewed following the standard reviewing procedure of Theoretical Computer Science. The final submission deadline is:
October 20, 2024
Please express your intention to submit an article as early as possible by Email to:
special-issue-cmsb@inria.fr
We suggest an upper limit of 40 pages on the length of the paper in the LaTeX style of the journal; please contact us if you need more pages for your manuscript.
With best wishes,
Joachim Niehren and Jun Pang
Guest editors of the special issue of TCS/C on Foundations of Systems Biology