The Journal of Theoretical Biology is the leading forum for theoretical perspectives that give insight into biological processes. It covers a very wide range of topics and is of interest to biologists in many areas of research, including:? Brain and Neuroscience ? Cancer Growth and Treatment ? Cell Biology ? Developmental Biology ? Ecology ? Evolution ? Immunology,? Infectious and non-infectious Diseases, ? Mathematical, Computational, Biophysical and Statistical Modeling ? Microbiology, Molecular Biology, and Biochemistry ? Networks and Complex Systems ? Physiology ? Pharmacodynamics ? Animal Behavior and Game TheoryPlease note that the biological significance of the problem being studied should be clearly stated.Acceptable papers are those that bear significant importance on the biology being presented, and not on the mathematical analysis, per se. Papers that include some data will be considered, including those that contain comparative study, statistical data analysis, mathematical proof, computer simulations, experiments, field observations, or even philosophical arguments, which are all methods to support or reject theoretical ideas. However, there should be a concerted effort to make papers intelligible to biologists in the chosen field.Highly speculative papers not based on current biological knowledge will not be accepted. Also not acceptable are papers in which only mathematics is utilized, or standard statistical methods are applied to existing genomic data, without new theoretical perspective or biologically novel insight.Comment on theoretical issues or on papers published in the journal is welcomed in the form of Letters to the Editors.

《理論生物學(xué)雜志》是提供深入了解生物過程的理論觀點的領(lǐng)先論壇。它涵蓋了非常廣泛的主題，并在許多研究領(lǐng)域引起生物學(xué)家的興趣，包括:?大腦和神經(jīng)科學(xué)?癌癥的生長和治療?細(xì)胞生物學(xué)?發(fā)育生物學(xué)?生態(tài)?進(jìn)化?免疫學(xué)、?傳染性和非傳染性疾病，?數(shù)學(xué)、計算、生物物理和統(tǒng)計建模?微生物學(xué)、分子生物學(xué)和生物化學(xué)?網(wǎng)絡(luò)和復(fù)雜系統(tǒng)?生理學(xué)?藥效學(xué)?動物行為和博弈論請注意，應(yīng)清楚說明正在研究的問題的生物學(xué)意義。可接受的論文是那些對所呈現(xiàn)的生物學(xué)有重要意義的論文，而不是對數(shù)學(xué)分析本身有重要意義的論文。包括一些數(shù)據(jù)的論文將被考慮，包括那些包含比較研究、統(tǒng)計數(shù)據(jù)分析、數(shù)學(xué)證明、計算機(jī)模擬、實驗、現(xiàn)場觀察，甚至哲學(xué)論證的論文，這些都是支持或反對理論觀點的方法。然而，應(yīng)該齊心協(xié)力使所選領(lǐng)域的生物學(xué)家能夠理解論文。不基于現(xiàn)有生物學(xué)知識的高度推測性論文將不予接受。同樣不能接受的是，僅使用數(shù)學(xué)，或?qū)?biāo)準(zhǔn)統(tǒng)計方法應(yīng)用于現(xiàn)有的基因組數(shù)據(jù)，而沒有新的理論視角或生物學(xué)上的新見解的論文。歡迎對理論問題或發(fā)表在期刊上的論文發(fā)表意見，并寫信給編輯。