Chemistry and biology interface journals: open calls for papers

Molecular Omics invites original research and review papers on single cell -omics, covering genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, lipodomics and multi-omics studies that provide insights into the development and processes of biological systems across nature at a single-cell resolution.

Manuscripts should be submitted via the journal’s online submission service and the Editorial Office informed by email. Please add a “note to the editor” in the submission form when you submit your manuscript to indicate that this is a submission for the themed collection. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check the suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection and inclusion of accepted articles in the collection is not guaranteed.

All manuscripts will be subject to the journal’s usual peer review process. Accepted manuscripts will be highlighted together in a dedicated web collection alongside an editorial, regardless of submission date, and there will be no delay in the publication of all accepted manuscripts into regular issues of Molecular Omics.

Molecular Omics is a Transformative Journal, and Plan S compliant

Molecular Omics invites original research and review papers on the -omics of microbiomes, covering genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, lipidomics and multi-omics studies that provide insights into microbiomes found within the environment or associated with host organisms.

Manuscripts should be submitted via the journal’s online submission service and the Editorial Office informed by email. Please add a “note to the editor” in the submission form when you submit your manuscript to indicate that this is a submission for the themed collection. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check the suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection and inclusion of accepted articles in the collection is not guaranteed.

All manuscripts will be subject to the journal’s usual peer review process. Accepted manuscripts will be highlighted together in a dedicated web collection alongside an editorial, regardless of submission date, and there will be no delay in the publication of all accepted manuscripts into regular issues of Molecular Omics.

Molecular Omics is a Transformative Journal, and Plan S compliant

Following a series of successful meetings organized in Europe since 1981, the XXII EuroFoodChem Conference was held in June 12-14 in Belgrade Serbia, jointly organized by the Food Chemistry Division of EuChemS and the Serbian Chemical Society, supported by the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The Congress program offered both exciting recent trends in food chemistry research and networking opportunities. We are pleased to introduce this collection in Food & Function devoted to EuroFoodChem XXII.

Food & Function provides a unique venue for physicists, chemists, biochemists, nutritionists and other food scientists to publish work at the interface of the chemistry, physics and biology of food. The journal focuses on food, its (micro)constituents and their relation to health and/or nutrition by describing (the):

Physical properties and structure of food

• Chemistry of food components
• Biochemical and physiological actions of food components
• Nutritional aspects of food
• Toxicological responses to food components
• Clinical and population studies using food or food components

Please note that all submitted manuscripts will be subject to initial assessment and peer review in accordance with the journal’s normal standards.

Food & Function is a Transformative Journal and Plan S compliant

Contributions are welcome which investigate the fundamental inorganic chemistry of life and/or use inorganic chemistry for medicine. New chemical methods for sensing and imaging, metalloproteomics, metal-based therapeutics and diagnostics, as well as structural and functional consequences of novel protein and nucleic acid metallobiochemistry in vitro and in living systems, are welcome for this themed collection on emerging topics in the chemical biology of metals research.

Ideally, computational work should be experimentally validated wherever possible. For articles to be accepted into the collection, the applications and relevance to chemical biology must be clear.

Authors are welcome to submit original research in the form of a Communication or Full Paper. The manuscript should be prepared according to our article guidelines and submitted via our online system.

All manuscripts will be subject to the usual initial assessment and peer review processes as necessary, and inclusion in the Collection will be at the discretion of the Guest Editors. Please indicate in your submission that you are submitting to this Collection and inform the Editorial Office by email.

Following our peer-review process, we will publish accepted articles online in a citeable form as soon as they are ready, with compilation and promotion of the complete collection in mid-2023.

As a gold open access journal, there are no barriers to accessing content and your research article will reach an international audience.

RSC Chemical Biology is now indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), PubMed Central, Scopus and Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index.

About this journal:

Led by Hiroaki Suga (University of Tokyo), RSC Chemical Biology is dedicated to publishing and disseminating the most exceptionally significant, breakthrough findings of interest to the chemical biology community. All submissions are handled by our experienced and internationally recognised Associate Editors. For more information on the journal, please visit the journal homepage.

Ideally, computational work should be experimentally validated wherever possible. For articles to be accepted into the collection, the applications and relevance to chemical biology must be clear.

Authors are welcome to submit original research in the form of a Communication or Full Paper. The manuscript should be prepared according to our article guidelines and submitted via our online system.

All manuscripts will be subject to the usual initial assessment and peer review processes as necessary, and inclusion in the Collection will be at the discretion of the Guest Editors. Please indicate in your submission that you are submitting to this Collection and inform the Editorial Office by email.

Following our peer-review process, we will publish accepted articles online in a citeable form as soon as they are ready, with compilation and promotion of the complete collection in late 2023.

As a gold open access journal, there are no barriers to accessing content and your research article will reach an international audience.

RSC Chemical Biology is now indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), PubMed Central, Scopus and Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index.

About this journal:

Led by Hiroaki Suga (University of Tokyo), RSC Chemical Biology is dedicated to publishing and disseminating the most exceptionally significant, breakthrough findings of interest to the chemical biology community. All submissions are handled by our experienced and internationally recognised Associate Editors. For more information on the journal, please visit the journal homepage.

Ideally, computational work should be experimentally validated wherever possible. For articles to be accepted into the collection, the applications and relevance to chemical biology must be clear.

Authors are welcome to submit original research in the form of a Communication or Full Paper. The manuscript should be prepared according to our article guidelines and submitted via our online system.

All manuscripts will be subject to the usual initial assessment and peer review processes as necessary, and inclusion in the Collection will be at the discretion of the Guest Editors. Please indicate in your submission that you are submitting to this Collection and inform the Editorial Office by email.

Following our peer-review process, we will publish accepted articles online in a citeable form as soon as they are ready, with compilation and promotion of the complete collection in late 2023.

As a gold open access journal, there are no barriers to accessing content and your research article will reach an international audience.

RSC Chemical Biology is now indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), PubMed Central, Scopus and Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index.

About this journal:

Led by Hiroaki Suga (University of Tokyo), RSC Chemical Biology is dedicated to publishing and disseminating the most exceptionally significant, breakthrough findings of interest to the chemical biology community. All submissions are handled by our experienced and internationally recognised Associate Editors. For more information on the journal, please visit the journal homepage.

Targeting biologically relevant RNAs using synthetic small molecules is one of the great challenges of current medicinal chemistry. Since the first marketed drugs acting upon RNA binding, i.e. antibiotics targeting prokaryotic ribosomal RNA thus impairing protein synthesis, new drugs are being approved which are able to bind pre-mRNAs and modify splicing. Examples are risdiplam against spinal muscular atrophy and branaplam against Huntington’s disease, which show the high potential of RNA binders for new therapeutic tools in the close future. Beside direct targeting of RNA, many other strategies have been developed for the targeting of RNA/protein interactions as well as for modulation of proteins and enzymes acting on RNAs, especially in the field of epitranscriptomics.

Despite these clinical successes, the field of RNA targeting by small molecules is still in its infancy. Many different approaches have been developed during recent years in this field. High-throughput screenings, fragment-based drug design and structure-based strategies represent only a small part and strategies specifically designed for the discovery of RNA modulators are also being developed. The present Themed Collection highlights the potential of chemical probes and bioactive molecules acting on RNA and RNA-binding proteins, and aims at identifying emerging trends and technologies in the discovery of strong and selective ligands that will advance the RNA targeting field in the next decade.

Manuscripts should be submitted via the journal’s online submission service and the Editorial Office informed by email. Please add a “note to the editor” in the submission form when you submit your manuscript to indicate that this is a submission for the themed collection. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check the suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection and inclusion of accepted articles in the collection is not guaranteed.

All manuscripts will be subject to the journal's usual peer review process. Accepted manuscripts will be highlighted together in a dedicated web collection alongside an editorial, regardless of submission date, and there will be no delay in the publication of all accepted manuscripts into regular issues of RSC Medicinal Chemistry.

RSC Medicinal Chemistry is a Transformative Journal and Plan S compliant

This themed collection will focus on the recent advances in the medicinal chemistry of membrane proteins, including GPCRs, ion channels, transporters and more. Topics in this collection will cover but are not limited to:

• Innovations in methods to screen, design and develop small molecule drugs targeting membrane proteins
• Novel methods to design/screen for peptide/small protein/nanobody/antibody drugs towards membrane proteins
• Computational methods to calculate and screen for novel drugs targeting membrane proteins
• Structural information (and molecular mechanisms) that may guide the development of drugs with better pharmaceutical properties

Manuscripts should be submitted via the journal’s online submission service and the Editorial Office informed by email. Please add a “note to the editor” in the submission form when you submit your manuscript to say that this is a submission for the themed collection. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection and inclusion of accepted articles in the collection is not guaranteed.

All manuscripts will be subject to the journal's usual peer review process. Accepted manuscripts will be highlighted together in a dedicated web collection alongside an editorial, regardless of submission date, and there will be no delay in the publication of all accepted manuscripts into regular issues of RSC Medicinal Chemistry.

RSC Medicinal Chemistry is a Transformative Journal and Plan S compliant