Computational Biology and Chemistry

Computational Biology and Chemistry is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier covering all areas of computational life sciences. The current editors-in-chief are Wentian Li (The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research) and Donald Hamelberg (Georgia State University). The journal was established in 1976 as Computers & Chemistry, with DeLos F. DeTar (Florida State University) as its first editor. It obtained its current title in 2003 under the editorship of Andrzej K Konopka and James Crabble (University of Bedfordshire).

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • BIOSIS

• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

• Chemical Abstracts

• Current Contents

• EMBiology

• Engineering Index

• Inspec

• MEDLINE

• MathSciNet

• PASCAL

• Science Citation Index

• Scopus According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2011 impact factor of 1.551, ranking it 42nd out of 85 journals in the category "Biology" and 36th out of 99 journals in the category "Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications"