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Current Opinion in Structural Biology contains:
• Over 90 reviews from leading international
contributors
• Evaluated reference lists for all articles
Online
• Fully searchable
• Access back
issues
• Numerous links
Search and read all issues published since 1994, giving you access to your own reference library
without leaving your desk.
The Current Opinion journals were developed out of the recognition that it is increasingly difficult for
specialists to keep up to date with the expanding volume of information published in their subject. In Current Opinion in Structural
Biology, we help the reader by providing in a systematic manner:
1. The views of experts on current advances in structural biology
in a clear and readable form.
2. Evaluations of the most interesting papers, annotated by experts, from the great wealth of original
publications.
Division of the subject into sections
The subject of structural biology is divided into twelve major sections,
each of which is reviewed once a year. Each issue contains two sections, and the amount of space devoted to each section is related to
its importance.
• Folding and binding • Protein-nucleic acid interactions • Theory and simulation • Macromolecular
assemblages • Nucleic Acids • Sequences and topology • Membranes • Engineering and design • Carbohydrates
and glycoconjugates • Biophysical methods • Catalysis and Regulation • Proteins
Selection of topics to be reviewed
Section Editors, who are major authorities in the field, are appointed by the Editors of the journal. They divide their section into
a number of topics, ensuring that the field is comprehensively covered and that all issues of current importance are emphasised. Section
Editors commission reviews from authorities on each topic that they have selected.
Reviews
Authors write short review
articles in which they present recent developments in their subject, emphasising the aspects that, in their opinion, are most important.
In addition, they provide short annotations to the papers that they consider to be most interesting from all those published in their
topic over the previous year.
Editorial Overview
Section Editors write a short overview at the beginning of the section
to introduce the reviews and to draw the reader's attention to any particularly interesting developments.
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or professional publishing. While this may not amount to a formal 'code of conduct', these fundamental principles with respect to the
authors' paper are that the paper should: i) be the authors' own original work, which has not been previously published elsewhere, ii)
reflect the authors' own research and analysis and do so in a truthful and complete manner, iii) properly credit the meaningful contributions
of co-authors and co-researchers, iv) not be submitted to more than one journal for consideration, and v) be appropriately placed in
the context of prior and existing research. Of equal importance are ethical guidelines dealing with research methods and research funding,
including issues dealing with informed consent, research subject privacy rights, conflicts of interest, and sources of funding. While
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our expectations of authors and procedures that the Journal will employ in the event of questions concerning author conduct. With respect
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