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Bioinformatics Template

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About the Bioinformatics format

Bioinformatics is a peer-reviewed journal published by Oxford University Press, covering Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Gene expression and cancer classification. Over its lifetime it has published 19,586 papers, which have received 2,823,015 citations.

PublisherOxford University Press
Reference styleNumbered (OUP)
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
[1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, A representative article title, Bioinformatics 12 (2023) 45–58.

Formats any DOI in the closest standard style — Bioinformatics has no published style definition, so this is an approximation. No sign-up.

Publishes research inBioinformatics and Genomic Networks Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies Gene expression and cancer classification Machine Learning in Bioinformatics Protein Structure and Dynamics
ISSN1367-4803
Citation impact (2-yr)5.89
h-index572
i10-index13,926
Article processing charge$3,618
Open accessYes — indexed in DOAJ
Top institutions publishing hereCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Journal websitebioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org
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Papers published in Bioinformatics per year

854
2014
772
2015
860
2016
895
2017
1.1K
2018
980
2019
996
2020
928
2021
862
2022
810
2023
806
2024
697
2025

Citation impact of Bioinformatics by publication year

262.1K
2014
125.1K
2015
86.3K
2016
78.6K
2017
143.1K
2018
84.2K
2019
46.1K
2020
31.9K
2021
29.7K
2022
15K
2023
8.3K
2024
2.3K
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Bioinformatics

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

Anthony Bolger, Marc Lohse, Björn Usadel · 1 Apr 2014

MOTIVATION: Although many next-generation sequencing (NGS) read preprocessing tools already existed, we could not find any tool or combination of tools that met our requirements in terms of flexibility, correct handling of paired-end data and high performance. We have developed Trimmomatic as a more flexible and efficient preprocessing tool, which could correctly handle paired-end data.…

70,480 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

Heng Li, Bob Handsaker, Alec Wysoker et al. · 8 Jun 2009

SUMMARY: The Sequence Alignment/Map (SAM) format is a generic alignment format for storing read alignments against reference sequences, supporting short and long reads (up to 128 Mbp) produced by different sequencing platforms. It is flexible in style, compact in size, efficient in random access and is the format in which alignments from the 1000 Genomes…

68,162 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

Heng Li, Richard Durbin · 18 May 2009

MOTIVATION: The enormous amount of short reads generated by the new DNA sequencing technologies call for the development of fast and accurate read alignment programs. A first generation of hash table-based methods has been developed, including MAQ, which is accurate, feature rich and fast enough to align short reads from a single individual. However, MAQ…

63,335 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

Alexander Dobin, Carrie Davis, Felix Schlesinger et al. · 25 Oct 2012

MOTIVATION: Accurate alignment of high-throughput RNA-seq data is a challenging and yet unsolved problem because of the non-contiguous transcript structure, relatively short read lengths and constantly increasing throughput of the sequencing technologies. Currently available RNA-seq aligners suffer from high mapping error rates, low mapping speed, read length limitation and mapping biases. RESULTS: To align our…

56,909 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
<tt>edgeR</tt> : a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data

Mark D. Robinson, Davis J. McCarthy, Gordon K. Smyth · 11 Nov 2009

SUMMARY: It is expected that emerging digital gene expression (DGE) technologies will overtake microarray technologies in the near future for many functional genomics applications. One of the fundamental data analysis tasks, especially for gene expression studies, involves determining whether there is evidence that counts for a transcript or exon are significantly different across experimental conditions.…

44,849 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

Bioinformatics template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Bioinformatics format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the Bioinformatics template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official Oxford University Press format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does Bioinformatics use?
Bioinformatics uses Numbered (OUP) references, shown as numbered [1], [2] markers in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: [1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, A representative article title, Bioinformatics 12 (2023) 45–58.
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to Bioinformatics?
No. DocuGuru generates the oup-authoring-template LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a Oxford University Press-ready Bioinformatics document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
Can I import an existing draft into the Bioinformatics template?
Yes. Paste or upload your current manuscript — Word, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text — and DocuGuru reflows it into the Bioinformatics format with correct headings, figures, tables, and numbered citations.
What is Bioinformatics?
Bioinformatics (OUP). It is a multidisciplinary journal, published by Oxford University Press.
Can I export a submission-ready Bioinformatics PDF?
Yes — DocuGuru produces a PDF built with the official Bioinformatics template (the oup-authoring-template class) that is ready to submit to Oxford University Press, together with the matching LaTeX source files.
How much does the Bioinformatics template cost?
You can start writing in the Bioinformatics template for free. Exporting the final submission-ready Bioinformatics PDF and LaTeX source is part of DocuGuru's paid plans — see the app for current pricing.
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