Journal of Cheminformatics is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal encompassing all aspects of cheminformatics and molecular modelling including: chemical information systems, software and databases, and molecular modelling; chemical structure representations and their use in structure, substructure, and similarity searching of chemical substance and chemical reaction databases
computer and molecular graphics, computer-aided molecular design, expert systems, QSAR, and data mining techniques.

The Journal of Cheminformatics offers scientists the opportunity to publish their research rapidly in an open access medium that is freely available online to researchers worldwide. All manuscripts submitted to the journal are subject to rigorous peer review. Published material may include electronic supplementary material, such as animations (e.g. graphical chemical structures) or data (e.g. spectra) that can be downloaded for a reader's use.

The Journal of Cheminformatics aims to work closely with operators of open data repositories such as PubChem. Requests for collaboration are welcome; please contact the Editorial Office.

Journal of Cheminformatics considers the following types of articles:
Research: primary research from any area of chemistry, or chemistry related/interdisciplinary area.
Database articles: describing a new database or a substantial improvement of an existing database (for example by an expansion of data to broaden the range of users, or by a major increase in functionality).
Methodology articles: presenting a new experimental method, test or procedure. The method described may either be completely new, or may offer a better version of an existing method. The article must describe a demonstrable advance on what is currently available. The method needs to have been well tested and ideally, but not necessarily, used in a way that proves its value.
Software articles: describing the source code for software applications, tools or algorithm implementations. Typically, an archive of the source code of the current version of the software should be included with the submitted manuscript as a supplementary file.
Commentary articles: short, focused and opinionated articles on any subject within the journal's scope. These articles are usually related to a contemporary issue, such as recent research findings, and are often written by opinion leaders invited by the Editorial Board. Editorial Board members may write such articles to highlight hot or emerging areas of research within a given field.
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