Journal of Molecular Recognition (JMR) publishes original research papers and reviews describing substantial advances in our understanding of molecular recognition phenomena in life sciences, covering all aspects from biochemistry, molecular biology, medicine, and biophysics.  The research may employ experimental, theoretical and/or computational approaches.
The focus of the journal is on recognition phenomena involving biomolecules and their biological / biochemical partners rather than on the recognition of metal ions or inorganic compounds. Molecular recognition involves non-covalent specific interactions between two or more biological molecules, molecular aggregates, cellular modules or organelles, as exemplified by receptor-ligand, antigen-antibody, nucleic acid-protein, sugar-lectin, to mention just a few of the possible interactions. The journal invites manuscripts that aim to achieve a complete description of molecular recognition mechanisms between well-characterized biomolecules in terms of structure, dynamics and biological activity.  Such studies may help the future development of new drugs and vaccines, although the experimental testing of new drugs and vaccines falls outside the scope of the journal. Manuscripts that describe the application of standard approaches and techniques to design or model new molecular entities or to describe interactions between biomolecules, but do not provide new insights into molecular recognition processes will not be considered. Similarly, manuscripts involving biomolecules uncharacterized at the sequence level (e.g. calf thymus DNA) will not be considered.
Typical techniques would include synthesis of topological mimics, site directed mutagenesis or molecular imprinting, together with biophysical methods for the quantitative measurement of molecular interactions. Specific methods such as AFM, Optical Tweezers, SPR, Biosensors and Microcalorimetry, and the range of analytical methods such as NMR, MRI, MS, GC, LC, HPLC, PET, and Crystallography may be used to establish the mechanisms, dynamics and forces of molecular recognition processes. Theoretical and Computational Methods aid the modeling, prediction, simulation and design of molecular recognition processes. Mechanistic understanding at a molecular level can be aided by computational approaches such as molecular electrostatic analysis, molecular dynamics simulations and free energy calculations.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

MARC H. V. VAN REGENMORTEL
[Antigen-Antibody Interactions, Biosensors, Antibody Affinity and Kinetics, Immunochemistry of Proteins and Peptides, Viral Antigens, Structure-Activity Relationship]
Ecole Superieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg, Boulevard Sebastien Brand, 67400 Illkirch, France.
e-mail: vanregen@unistra.fr


ASSOCIATE EDITORS

HEINRICH HOERBER
[Scanning Probe Microscopies (STM, AFM, PFM, etc.) and Fluorescence Microscopy Molecular Interaction, Self Organization and Thermodynamics, Structure/Function Relation in Proteins from a Mechanical Point of View, Bionanotechnology or Nanobiotechnology, nanotoicology]
Professor of Nanobiophysics, HH Wills Physics Laboratory, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK.
e-mail: h.hoerber@bristol.ac.uk  

PAUL A. RAMSLAND
[Protein Crystallography, Molecular Modelling, Antibodies and Immune System Proteins, Carbohydrate Recognition, Structural Biology]
School of Science, College of Science, Engineering and Health, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia.
e-mail: paul.ramsland@rmit.edu.au

REBECCA C. WADE
[Theoretical and Computational Analysis of Biomolecular Recognition: Molecular Modeling, Simulation and Design including Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships (QSAR), Electrostatics, and Molecular Dynamics]
Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 35, 69118 Heidelberg, Germany, and Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie (ZMBH), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
e-mail: rebecca.wade@h-its.org

ERIC WESTHOF
[Structural Biology and Bioinformatics of Nucleic Acids, Nucleic Acids-Ligand and Nucleic Acids-Protein Interactions]
Université Louis Pasteur, Institut de biologie moléculaire et cellulaire du CNRS, UPR9002, 15 rue René Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France.
e-mail: e.westhof@ibmc-cnrs.unistra.fr

DAVID A. SPIVAK
[Molecular imprinting, Organic Synthesis, Polymers, Aptamers, Biomaterials, Nanoparticles, Microanalytical Devices, Biosensors, Catalytic Antibodies.]
Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, 232 Choppin Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA.
e-mail: dspivak@lsu.edu

CHRIS OOSTENBRINK
[Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Statistical Thermodynamics, Biomolecular Modeling, Molecular Simulation and Docking, Binding Interactions]
Institute of Molecular Modeling and Simulation (MMS), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18/6-58, A-1190 Vienna, Austria.
e-mail: chris.oostenbrink@boku.ac.at 

JUAN FERNANDEZ-RECIO
[Structural Bioinformatics, Protein Docking]
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, C/ Baldiri i Reixach 4-8, Barcelona 08028, Spain.
e-mail: juanf@bsc.es 


FOUNDING EDITOR

IRWIN CHAIKEN


ADVISORY BOARD

Ruben Abagyan
La Jolla, CA, USA

Richard Ansell
Leeds, UK

Monica Berry
Bristol, UK

Christina R. Bourne
Stillwater, OK, USA

Irwin Chaiken
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Pinak Chakrabarti
Kolkata, India

Brett Collins
Queensland, Australia

Zoe Cournia
Athens, Greece

Alexander P. Demchenko
Kiev, Ukraine

Stefan Duebel
Braunschweig, Germany

Keith Dunker
Indianapolis, IN, USA

Sarel Fleishman
Tel Aviv, Israel

Ronald Frank
Braunschweig, Germany

Michael K. Gilson
Rockville, MD, USA

Neil Greenspan
Cleveland, USA

Karsten Haupt
Compiègne, France

Fraser Hof
British Columbia, Canada

Luc Jaeger
Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Ilian Jelesarov
Zurich, Switzerland

Daniel Kolarich
Berlin, Germany

Leslie Kuhn
MI, USA

Luhua Lai
Beijing, China

Richard Laveryi
Lyon, France

Jean-Louis Mergny
Paris, France

John Mitchell
Hamilton, New Zealand

David Mobley
Irvine, CA, USA

Garrett M. Morris
Oxford, UK

David G. Myszka
Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Ian A. Nicholls
Kalmar, Sweden

Yasuhiro Nishiyama
Houston, TX, USA

Ruth Nussinov
Frederick, USA

Jean-Luc Pellequer
Grenoble, France

Jamie K. Scott
Vancouver, Canada

Arne Skerra
Munich, Germany

Saynal Suparna
Uppsala, Sweden

Maximiliano Vasquez
Palo Alto, CA, USA

Michael J. Waring
Cambridge, England

Jin Wang
Stony Brook, NY, USA

Richard C. Willson
Houston, TX, USA

Ofran Yanay
Ramat-Gan, Israel

Elizabeth Yuriev
Parkville, Australia