Journal Guide

Plasmid publishes original research on genetic elements in all kingdoms of life with emphasis on maintenance, transmission and evolution of extrachromosomal elements. Objects of interest include plasmids, bacteriophages, mobile genetic elements, organelle DNA, and genomic and pathogenicity islands.Plasmid welcomes topics such as horizontal gene transfer, including antibiotic resistance transfer, and molecular aspects of microbial ecology. It also welcomes applications of plasmid biology to biotechnology and medicine, and of bioinformatics for studies of genomes. The journal is a bi-monthly that publishes full articles, short communications and reviews.Benefits to authorsWe also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our support pages: http://support.elsevier.com

Plasmonics publishes peer-reviewed articles that both advance and report on the knowledge and practice of the interactions of free-metal electrons, Plasmons. Coverage includes theory, physics, and applications of surface plasmons in metals, and rapidly emerging areas of nanotechnology, biophotonics, sensing, biochemistry and medicine. The journal covers the theory, synthesis and optical properties of noble metal nanostructures, patterned surfaces, continuous or grated surfaces and devices. Applications include surface-enhanced spectroscopic properties, such as Raman scattering or fluorescence, as well developments in techniques such as surface plasmon resonance and near-field scanning optical microscopy. Papers describe new plasmonic based devices, new synthetic procedures for the preparation of nanostructures and their optical properties, as well their applications in analytical sensing. The journal presents reviews, rapid communications, letters to the editors, and technical and design notes. Plasmonics is

Platelets is an international, fully peer-reviewed journal covering all aspects of platelet-related research. The Journal publishes original articles, review articles and correspondence on blood platelets and platelet-related areas with a view to providing a focus for new information on all aspects of this important blood component.Platelets provides the opportunity for contributors and readers from all scientific several disciplines to engage with progress on platelet function, biochemistry, signal transduction, pharmacology and therapeutics, interaction with other cells in the blood vessel wall, and the contribution of platelets and platelet-derived products to health and disease.From September 2009, in addition to the usual reviews and research articles, there is a new Methods section. This will become a unique feature of Platelets. With the growing complexity and enormous range of different methodologies involved in research on platelets, coupled with increasing utility of new technologies, we envisage that this section will be of huge benefit to platelet researchers worldwide. This should not only improve standardization between laboratories but provide up-to-date and detailed descriptions of both old and new methods that are often difficult to replicate and may thus help to resolve controversies in the field.*© Thomson ISI Journal Citation Reports® 2012.

The journal for the most innovative and exciting polymer chemistry, with an emphasis on the synthesis and applications of polymers. Polymer Chemistry welcomes submissions in all areas of polymer science that have a strong focus on macromolecular chemistry. Manuscripts may cover a broad range of fields, yet no direct application focus is required.

The objective of the journal is to provide practical information of immediate relevance to workers in clinical laboratories. The primary scope of the journal covers clinical chemistry, hematology, molecular biology and genetics relevant to laboratory medicine, microbiology, immunology, therapeutic drug monitoring and toxicology, laboratory management and informatics.

We welcome papers which describe critical evaluations of biomarkers and their role in the diagnosis and treatment of clinically significant disease, validation of commercial and in-house IVD methods, method comparisons, interference reports, the development of new reagents and reference materials, reference range studies and regulatory compliance reports. Manuscripts describing the development of new methods applicable to laboratory medicine (including point-of-care testing) are particularly encouraged, even if preliminary or small scale.

While novel or innovative work is preferred, papers of a confirmatory nature will also be considered if they are scientifically and technically valid and relevant to important topics.

Chemical research focused on precision enables more controllable, predictable, and accurate outcomes, which in turn drive innovation in measurement science, sustainable materials, information materials, personalized medicines, energy, environmental science, and countless other fields requiring chemical insights.

Precision Chemistry is an open access journal that provides a unique and highly focused publishing venue for fundamental, applied, and interdisciplinary research aiming to achieve precision calculation, design, synthesis, manipulation, measurement, and manufacturing. It is committed to bringing together researchers from across the chemical sciences and the related scientific areas, to showcase original research and critical reviews of exceptional quality, significance, and interest to the broad chemistry and scientific community.

Specific topics of interest may include, but are not limited to:

• Precision and controllable chemical synthesis with high selectivity and efficiency
• Molecular engineering for highly-complex, multifunctional molecular systems (molecular machines and devices etc.)
• Controllable self-assembly strategy with precisely defined structures and dimensions
• Precision macromolecular and supramolecular systems
• Precision nanotechnology and nanomanufacturing
• Function-oriented design and fabrication of materials
• Tunable catalysis with high efficiency
• Precision sensing, imaging and characterization of molecules and chemical reactions
• Theoretical studies with high accuracy and computational efficiency (atomistic simulations of chemical, biological and materials systems)
• Precision Chemistry in life science and medicine (genome editing, protein and enzyme engineering, molecular diagnostics, targeted therapeutics, etc.)
• Precision Chemistry in energy and environmental science (energy conversion, energy storage, water resources, environmental remediation, carbon neutrality, etc.)

Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology is an international forum for rapid dissemination of high-quality research results dealing with all aspects of preparative techniques in biochemistry, biotechnology, and other life science disciplines that are pertinent to clarification, isolation, enrichment, and purification of biotech products. These products could be in the areas of human therapeutics, biofuels, plant biotechnology, animal biotechnology, food processing, and environmental biotechnology. Unit operations may include fermentation/cell culture, centrifugation, depth filtration, homogenization, chromatography, ultrafiltration, diafiltration, refolding, viral filtration, viral inactivation, sterile filtration, extraction, two phase separation, precipitation, osmotic shock, lyophilization, and other process steps that are utilized in manufacturing of the above mentioned products. Priority will be given to novel results that are likely to have major impact on the respective research area. Readership Readership includes chemists, biotechnologists, engineers, physicists and life scientists involved in discovery, development or manufacturing of products in the areas of human therapeutics, biofuels, plant biotechnology, animal biotechnology, food processing and environmental biotechnology. Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 325 Chestnut Street, Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

Prion is the first international peer-reviewed journal to focus exclusively on protein folding and misfolding, protein assembly disorders, protein-based and structural inheritance. The goal is to foster communication and rapid exchange of information through timely publication of important results using traditional as well as electronic formats. The overriding criteria for publication in Prion are originality, scientific merit and general interest.Prion is a quarterly publication. Accepted manuscripts will be made available on the website immediately.

Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins publishes reviews, original articles, letters (short notes) and technical (methodological) communications targeted towards the advancement of the fundamental knowledge and exploration of the applications of probiotics, natural antimicrobial proteins and their derivatives in biomedical, agricultural, veterinary, food, and cosmetic products. The Journal equally welcomes fundamental research articles and reports on applications of these microorganisms and substances. The Journal encourages structural studies and studies that correlate the structure and functional properties of antimicrobial proteins. Authors are expected to submit manuscripts dealing with all aspects of probiotics and antimicrobial peptides, from their discovery and understanding mechanisms of action to biophysical experiments/simulations that clarify mechanisms of action on molecular level, testing pharmacological profiles (activity and toxicity) and design of novel antimicrobial proteins and/or probiotic-containing or probiotic-derived products with therapeutic, food or consumer health formulation potential.

The Royal Society's flagship biological research journal, dedicated to the fast publication and worldwide dissemination of high-quality research

Process Biochemistry is an application-orientated research journal devoted to reporting advances with originality and novelty, in the science and technology of the processes involving bioactive molecules and living organisms. These processes concern the production of useful metabolites or materials, or the removal of toxic compounds using tools and methods of current biology and engineering. Its main areas of interest include novel bioprocesses and enabling technologies (such as nanobiotechnology, tissue engineering, directed evolution, metabolic engineering, systems biology, and synthetic biology) applicable in food (nutraceutical), healthcare (medical, pharmaceutical, cosmetic), energy (biofuels), environmental, and biorefinery industries and their underlying biological and engineering principles.Main topics covered include, with most of possible aspects and domains of application:• Fermentation, biochemical and bioreactor engineering• Biotechnology processes and their life science aspects• Biocatalysis, enzyme engineering and biotransformation• Downstream processing• Modeling, optimization and control techniques.Particular aspects related to the processes, raw materials and products, also include:• Quantitative microbial physiology, stress response, signal transduction• Genetic engineering and metabolic engineering• Proteomics, functional genomics, metabolomics, and bioinformatics• Chiral compounds production, cell free protein system, high-throughput screening, in-vivo/in-vitro evolution, enzyme immobilization, enzyme reaction in non-aqueous media• Mass transfer, mixing, scale-up and scale-down, bioprocess monitoring, bio-manufacturing• Cell, tissue and antibody engineering: animal and plant cells/tissues, algae, micro-algae, extremophile, antibody screening and production• Environmental biotechnology: biodegradation, bioremediation, wastewater treatment, biosorption and bioaccumulation• Bio-commodity engineering: biomass, bio-refinery, bio-energy• Bioseparation, purification, protein refolding.• Other new bioprocess and bioreactor related topics especially on application to healthcare sectors

Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology covers the ground between the physical and biological sciences. It indicates to the physicist the great variety of unsolved problems awaiting attention in the biological sciences. The biologist and biochemist will find that this journal presents new and stimulating ideas on structural and functional problems of the living organism. This journal will be of particular interest to biophysicists, biologists, biochemists, cell physiologists, systems biologists, and molecular biologists.Benefits to authorsWe also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our support pages: http://support.elsevier.com

The importance of lipids as one of the fundamental classes of biological compounds is well established. The application of our knowledge of the biochemistry, chemistry and physiology of lipids to biotechnology, the fats and oils industry and medicine have continued to expand apace. In addition new dimensions such as lipid biophysics, especially with relevance to membranes and lipoproteins, and basic liposome research and applications have been added. To cope with all these advances in knowledge a journal is needed to review recent progress in particular fields and to set current research against its historical background. Progress in Lipid Research fulfils this role.Each volume contains up-to-date surveys of special aspects of lipid research. The invited reviews are comprehensive enough to provide sufficient overview but concentrate on reporting and critically appraising the most recent data. Subjects are chosen for their timeliness or because major developments have taken place in the last few years. They include methodological reviews as well as chemical, biochemical and medical articles. All lipid compounds and derivatives are covered, ranging from fatty acids and other simple molecules, through steroids, terpenoids and phospho- or glycolipids to complex structures such as lipoproteins and biological membranes. We hope that those whose main interest is in lipid biophysics and liposome research will join as new readers, benefiting from the journal's classical aspects of lipid metabolism, lipids in signal transduction and lipid enzymology, and that current readers will benefit from the exposure to top quality research on the new aspects.Prospective authors of reviews should send a presubmission enquiry with key references to one of the Editors.