Theory in Biosciences focuses on new concepts in theoretical biology. It also includes analytical and modelling approaches as well as philosophical and historical issues. Central topics are:

Artificial Life
Bioinformatics with a focus on novel methods, phenomena, and interpretations
Bioinspired Modeling
Complexity, Robustness, and Resilience
Embodied Cognition
Evolutionary Biology
Evo-Devo
Game Theoretic Modeling
Genetics
History of Biology
Language Evolution
Mathematical Biology
Origin of Life
Philosophy of Biology
Population Biology
Systems Biology
Theoretical Ecology
Theoretical Molecular Biology
Theoretical Neuroscience & Cognition
The journal receives a large number of submissions which analyse a biologically motivated system of coupled ordinary differential equations, often with emphasis on stability and sensitivity of solutions and with rather standard tools from dynamical systems theory. Such articles will usually be considered out of scope, if they do not convincingly demonstrate the additional value within the general conceptual profile of the journal.

While not all models of interest to the journal are necessarily phrased in mathematical terms, those that are should be analyzed by rigorous methods.

Manuscripts should present original work with a strong conceptual background.

Editors-in-Chief
Jürgen Jost
MPI Mathematics in the Sciences 
Inselstraße 22
04103 Leipzig, Germany
E-mail: jjost@mis.mpg.de
Nihat Ay
MPI Mathematics in the Sciences 
Inselstrasse 22
04103 Leipzig, Germany
E-Mail: Nay@mis.mpg.de
Manfred Laubichler
School of Life Sciences
Arizona State University
427 East Tyler Mall
Tempe, AZ 85287-470, USA
E-Mail: manfred.laubichler@asu.edu
Peter F. Stadler
Bioinformatik, Inst. f. Informatik
University of Leipzig
Härtelstr. 16-18
04107 Leipzig, Germany
E-mail: peter.stadler@bioinf.uni-leipzig.de

Editorial Board
Wolfgang Banzhaf, St. John's, NL, Canada
Matthias Bethge, Tübingen, Germany
Jennifer A. Dunne, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Jessica C. Flack, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Jose Fernando Fontanari, Sao Carlos, Brazil 
Russell Gray, Jena, Germany
Eva Jablonka, Tel Aviv, Israel 
Sanjay Jain, Delhi, India 
Kunihiko Kaneko, Tokyo, Japan
Markus Kirkilionis, Coventry, UK
David C. Krakauer, Santa Fe, NM, USA 
Ulrich Kutschera, Kassel, Germany 
Alessandro Minelli, Padua, Italy 
Wolfgang Neuser, Kaiserslautern, Germany 
Stefano Nolfi, Roma, Italy
Lennart Olsson, Jena, Germany 
Daniel Polani, Hatfield, UK
Sonja J. Prohaska, Leipzig, Germany
Peter Schuster, Vienna, Austria 
João Carlos Setubal, São Paulo, Brazil
Wolf Singer, Frankfurt/Main, Germany 
Olaf Sporns, Bloomington, IN, USA
Arne Traulsen, Ploen, Germany
Günter Wagner, New Haven, CT, USA
David Wolpert, Moffett Field, CA, USA