Call for Papers - Code Biology: the study of all Codes of Life
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全文截稿: 2019-03-15
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CCF分类: 无
中科院JCR分区:
• 大类 : 计算机科学 - 4区
• 小类 : 生物学 - 4区
• 小类 : 数学与计算生物学 - 4区
Overview
Topics
We still have a theoretical framework that contemplates only two codes in Nature: the genetic code, that appeared at the origin of life, and the codes of human culture, that arrived almost four billion years later. In the past twenty years, however, various independent discoveries have shown that many other organic codes exist in living systems in addition to the genetic code, and this implies that they came into being during the history of life and gave specific contributions to that history.
Aims and Scope
The study of all codes of life with the standard methods of science is a new field of research that must be turned into practice and so far three steps have been taken in this direction: (1) the foundation of an International Society of Code Biology (in 2012), (2) the organization of Annual International Conferences in Code Biology (from 2014 onwards), and (3) the publication of Special Issues in Code Biology, starting with the one that appeared in BioSystems in February 2018. The present Call for Papers aims at integrating the verbal discussions of the Conferences with the written papers of the Special Issues and is addressed to all those who are interested in exploring the code mechanisms and the code dimension of life.
We invite both ‘Research articles’ that present new data, and ‘Review articles’ that make a survey of a given field, but we also welcome ‘Commentaries’ and ‘Opinion pieces’.