Call for Papers

What's new in RNA Biology?

In 2010 RNA Biology will continue to feature Special Foci on current and interesting RNA topics:

Issue 7-1: Riboswitches (Guest-Editor: Beatrix Suess, Frankfurt, Germany)
Issue 7-2: RNA Editing (Michael Jantsch, Vienna, Austria)
Issue 7-3: Alternative Splicing and Disease (Andrea Barta, Vienna, Austria and Daniel Schümperli, Bern, Switzerland)
Issue 7-4: RNA Chaperones (Karin Musier-Forsyth, Columbus, OH, USA)

We invite you to send us your original manuscripts on RNA Editing (closing date 6 January 2010), Alternative Splicing (closing date 6 March 2010) and RNA Chaperones (closing date 6 May 2010). The appearance of your research paper in the context of a series of Reviews written by experts in the field will increase its visibility and round out these special issues! Please contact the Editor-in-Chief (renee.schroeder@univie.ac.at) with suggestions for future Special Foci.

Landes Highlights: We are happy to introduce Landes Highlights, a News feature for RNA Biology. In this section we plan to highlight interesting research papers or review articles that have recently been published in other Landes Bioscience journals and are relevant to the field of RNA Biology. We will provide you with a brief summary and a link to the original research paper.
Read the first Landes Highlights in the November/December issue!

RNA Families: As of the beginning of 2009 RNA Biology features a section on RNA families.
RNA Biology thereby supports the efforts of the existing Rfam database (www.sanger.ac.uk/software/Rfam/) to systematically collect and annotate primary ncRNA data. We invite you to submit articles that describe either substantial updates of existing RNA families or novel families. In addition the RNA families section will accept manuscripts that describe global analyses on non-coding RNAs or descriptions of tools and methods for ncRNA annotation, as well as reviews and perspectives relevant to the field. These articles will be linked with the corresponding Rfam entries. In addition, an extended abstract should be deposited in Wikipedia.

Highlights from most recent issues:

Splicing modulation by short oligonucleotides
Singh et al.

RNA binding protein expression analysis
Galante et al.

PABP mediates CrTMV IRES activity
Marom et al.

About RNA Biology:
Original papers in RNA Biology represent a wide range of experimental systems, both prokaryotic and eukaryotic, and experimental approaches, including molecular and cell biology, biochemistry, genetics, genomics, and molecular medicine. Reviews highlight progress and discuss current thinking on RNA biology in a format accessible to a wide academic audience.

For a complete list of the types of papers accepted for publication, please visit the author guidelines: www.landesbioscience.com/journals/rnabiology/guidelines

RNA Biology is published both in print and online. Original research is published as full-length reports or brief communications. Solicited and submitted reviews and timely commentaries on significant developments are also published. All manuscripts are subjected to peer-review. Accepted manuscripts are made available on the journal’s website immediately. All papers automatically become open access after 1 year. Alternatively, immediate open access may be purchased at the time of publication.

Decision on manuscripts as rapidly as possible:
RNA Biology will reconsider papers that have been rejected by high impact journals for reasons of novelty and impact, rather than the importance of the study or the integrity of the data. Authors are encouraged to enclose the reviewers’ and/or editorial comments from the above mentioned journals. This will certainly expedite the evaluation of the article and it is possible the article might be accepted based on its previous review. This will allow the urgent and competitive research to be published on the day of submission.

RNA Biology utilizes an online submission and and peer review tracking system which is designed to provide a better, more efficient service to authors and reviewers.
• Authors can submit manuscripts online from anywhere in the world.
• Authors can track their manuscript through the peer review process.
• Author files are automatically converted into a PDF (Portable Document Format) file and submissions are acknowledged by email.
• Editors and reviewers access the PDF files on the website.

Submit your paper here: http://rnabiol.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex