MCP—Advancing Biology and Medicine through Omics and Bioinformatic Technologies wants to capture outcomes from the current revolution in molecular technologies and sciences. The journal has broadened its scope and embraces any high-quality research papers and reviews in areas including, but not limited to, molecular biology; cell biology; biochemistry; molecular physiology; genetics; evolutionary biology; genomics (including metagenomics); proteomics; metabolomics; glycomics and lipidomics, cancer; hematology and oncohematology; medical and veterinary epidemiology; immunology; virology; microbiology; vaccinology; molecular diagnostics of non-infectious, infectious, and parasitic diseases; and animal models in biomedical research. Submissions with a technology-driven focus on understanding normal biological or disease development processes, as well as conceptual advances and paradigm shifts, are particularly encouraged. We especially welcome works related to the revolutionary application of liquid biopsy and metagenomic next-generation sequencing in the detection of different diseases and follow-up to patients' treatment regimens by using exosomes and cell-free nucleic acids (DNA, mtDNA, mRNA, microRNA, long non-coding RNA, circular RNA, etc.). Studies on extracellular nucleic acids in normal and pathological condition and the treatment of diseases are the focus of MCP. Pure clinical studies and hypothesis-driven research are also suitable (e.g., clinical application of metabolomics/proteomics/transcriptomics using human samples). Only bioinformatic works with proven experimental confirmation will be accepted.

Top quality research and manuscripts will be fast-tracked. A highly cited international editorial board assures timely publication of manuscripts.

Review articles

In general, review articles submitted to our journal should be done by invitation of the Editor-in-Chief (EIC). Please send your concept, with an abstract, to the EIC to start the discussion.

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Editor-in-Chief
J.T. Epplen
amedes genetics, Germany
Editorial Board
G. Allmaier
TU Wien University, Wien, Austria
M.H. Antwerpen
Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, München, Germany
J. Bandekar
Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India
K. Becker
University of Münster, Munster, Germany
I. Bossis
University of Maryland at College Park, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
G.A. Calin
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER, Houston, Texas, United States
J. Chen
Tongji University, Shanghai, China
F. Coutlée
Hospital Notre Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J.T. Ellis
University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
M. Farr
Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
M. Franklin
Montana State University Bozeman, Bozeman, Montana, United States
J. Garaizar
University of the Basque Country Department of Immunology Microbiology and Parasitology, Vitoria-gasteiz, Spain
P. Geldhof
Ghent University Department of Virology Parasitology and Immunology, Merelbeke, Belgium
J.G.H. Hickford
Lincoln University Department of Agricultural Sciences, Christchurch, New Zealand
S. Hoffjan
Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
J. Horzempa
West Liberty University, West Liberty, West Virginia, United States
T. Hyypiä
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
L. Jones-Brando
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
I. Karunasagar
College of Fisheries, Mangalore, India
T. Klimkait
University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
T. Leeb
University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
L. Liu
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
S. Lovrich
Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center Microbiology Research and Molecular Testing Laboratories, La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States
N. Müller
University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
A. Nijhof
Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
A.J. Nisbet
Moredun Research Institute, Penicuik, United Kingdom
D. Otranto
University of Bari Section of Clinical Veterinary and Animal Production, Bari, Italy
L.A. Pinto
NCI at Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States
C.H. Rinaldo
University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway
C. Robinson
University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina, United States
S. Sabunciyan
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
E.G. Severance, PhD
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
V. Sharma
USDA-ARS National Animal Disease Center, Ames, Iowa, United States
H. Tomaso
Friedrich Loeffler Institute Federal Research Institute for Animal Health Institute of Bacterial Infections and Zoonoses, Jena, Germany
E. Torres
Generalitat of Catalonia Laboratory for Agriculture and Plant Health, Barcelona, Spain
D.V. Volokhov
US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
M. Walker
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
X. Yang
N.D. Young
University of Melbourne Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
K. Zhang
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada