Comments on: What is your favorite journal in the field of computational structural biology?

By: Dan Bolser

Dan Bolser — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:44:33 +0000

Hey! Elsevier got even worse! Check this out..

Merck and Elsevier publish fake peer-reviewed journal:

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/03/merck-and-elsevier-p.html

http://blog.bioethics.net/2009/05/merck-makes-phony-peerreview-journal/

By: WoA

WoA — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:57:17 +0000

Here are some other journals I quite often look at:

Chemical Biology & Drug Design(formerly journal of Peptide research)

Computational Biology and Chemistry (formerly Computers and Chemistry )

Computational Chemistry

J structural Biology

J Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics

and….

PNAS

By: Sargis Dallakyan

Sargis Dallakyan — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:11:42 +0000

I have “autodock” and “virtual screening” saved search in My NCBI. “virtual screening” sometimes returns articles related to colonoscopy or surgery, but most of the time it returns articles that otherwise it would take me hours to find and its delivered right into my inbox.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:02:15 +0000

Sargis, what’s your favorite PubMed search then ?

By: Sargis Dallakyan

Sargis Dallakyan — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:40:48 +0000

I also check BMC Bioinformatics. Their latest article entitled “Genome viewing goes Google” (http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/31) is pretty interesting, and if you are checking only the journals listed in this poll, you won’t be able to find anything like that. Also, nowadays, with so many journals its hard to find what you are looking for. So I have created a saved search in PubMed and I get email when new articles matching my search criteria are published. Some of it is published in journals that I never heard of.

By: Dan Bolser

Dan Bolser — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:26:10 +0000

I like JMB, I just don’t like its publishers – Reed Elsevier. Why? Because they actively support the arms trade:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6T1B-4N9XF65-X/2/d5cacc66ea087ea53c19234497b3744c

Also, I think as a community we should avoid publishing in journals that don’t make their contents freely available immediately or after some period of time (again JMB falls into this category). It’s time to boycott closed access publishers. Respect to PLoS CB for being open as in REALLY OPEN!

By: WoA

WoA — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:46:35 +0000

My top choices include Proteins and JMB. Then comes Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Journal of chemical information and modeling, Protein science, Protein engineering, BMC Structural Biology and Biopolymers.

By: Vladimir Chupakhin

Vladimir Chupakhin — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:40:43 +0000

computational structural biology – seems for me as an difficult term but I prefer the Biochemistry, Journal of medicinal chemistry (mostly old issues), Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design maybe some others (Journal of Molecular Modeling for example). Yes, all of this journals publish articles mostly not about computational structural biology but published papers are great