The ''Journal of Computational Biology'' is a monthly

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covering

computational biology Computational biology refers to the use of techniques in computer science, data analysis, mathematical modeling and Computer simulation, computational simulations to understand biological systems and relationships. An intersection of computer sci ...

and

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. It was established in 1994 and is published by

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. Mona Singh (

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

) is the current editor-in-chief. The journal was founded by Sorin Istrail (

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) and Michael S. Waterman (

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), and they served as editors-in-chief until 2020. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 1.549. Since 1997, authors of accepted proceedings papers at the Research in Computational Molecular Biology conference have been invited to submit a revised version to a special issue of the journal.

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