The Open Bioinformatics Journal is an Open Access journal, which publishes research articles, reviews/mini-reviews, letters, clinical trials and guest edited single topic issues in all areas of bioinformatics and computational biology. The coverage includes biomedicine, focusing on large data acquisition, analysis and curation, computational and statistical methods for the modeling and analysis of biological data, and descriptions of new algorithms and databases.

The Open Bioinformatics Journal, a peer reviewed journal, is an important and reliable source of current information on the developments in the field. Emphasis is placed on publishing quality papers rapidly, making them freely available to researchers worldwide.