One of the primary mission of "Frontiers in Bioscience" is to foster rapid dissemination of peer reviewed scientific data and to deliver the most up-to-date reviews in biology and medicine to biologists and physicians. The journal also publishes original articles, books, lectures, databases, news on demand, bulletin board, chat room, E-mail alerts and other services that are updated periodically.

The scope of the journal and the basis for the establishment of "Frontiers in Bioscience" can be found in the "General Information" section of the journal. This section also contains information as to how to subscribe to the journal.

A comprehensive "Guidelines to Authors" describes the types of the manuscripts that are accepted for publication, the review process, and a detailed guideline on how to submit a manuscript to "Frontiers in Bioscience". The manuscripts sent to the editorial office should be formatted according to the formatting instruction.

The current issue of the journal contains published manuscripts. Manuscripts published in the "Frontiers in Bioscience" are cited by Index Medicus, MEDLINE, Chemical Abstracts, BIOSIS, Current Contents for Life Sciences, Research alerts and current Web Contents . All manuscripts, submitted to "Frontiers in Bioscience" are peer reviewed. Only the manuscripts that are high quality and obtain a score of 75 or higher will be accepted for publication. To see the scoring system, click here.

Publication categories: Manuscripts are published in one of the following categories: Research articles in basic or clinical science, Reviews in basic or clinical science, Technical notes and protocols, Multimedia medicine and Databases or Atlases. The manuscripts are reviewed quickly after they have been received, normally within three weeks from the date of submission. Once accepted, the authors quickly receive a galley proof for correction. The manuscript appear shortly after the corrected proof has been received. There is no fixed date for publication, rather manuscripts go on line as they get accepted for publication.

Features of manuscripts published in the Frontiers in Bioscience:

A wide array of subjects in biology and medicine
Peer reviewed
Multifaceted (black and white image, color images, videos, sound)
World-wide access
Quick turn around time
No page limit
No limit on color photographs
On-line review
Minimal publication charges
Keyword search
Medline link of the references
Reprints (Regular and electronic "PDF")
Fulltext available indefinitely

The "Encyclopedia of Bioscience" features manuscripts from distinguished scientists in various subjects in biology and medicine. The content of the Encyclopedia of Bioscience will be maintained up-to-date by the authors. Each section of the Encyclopedia is managed by one of our managing editors.

Citation: The manuscripts published in the Frontiers in Bioscience may be cited as follows:

Tyrosine kinase expression is increased in papillary thyroid carcinoma of children and young adults
Aneeta Patel, Cydney Fenton, Raul Ramirez, Catherine A. Dinauer, R. Michael Tuttle, Yuri E. Nikiforov, and Gary L Francis
[Frontiers in Bioscience 5, a1-9, March 1, 2000] [PubMed#:10702379] [URL: http://www.bioscience.org/2000/v5/a/patel/fulltext.htm]

Impact factor of the articles published in Frontiers in Bioscience has been on the rise and the information is published annually.

Virtual library links are a list of urls and forms of interest to physicians, biologists and patients. The forms that are provided in separate directories for searching various search engines are not created solely to help the busy scientists to conveniently and efficiently find the information that they are looking for. The first time users are encouraged to visit the original site to become familiar with the terms and conditions of the use of such engines. For some sites, registration is required. Please send your comments and the urls of the site(s) that you wish to appear in this platform to the editorial office by mail or via E-mail.

The minimum system requirements for browsing the journal and the virtual library are as follows:

Computer: A 486 or Pentium PC, with Windows 3.11 or preferably higher. Apple/Macintosh PC with System 6.0 or greater

Hardware: 8Mb or more RAM, video card with 1-2 megabytes of VRAM, video accelerator, video camera, sound card, CD-ROM drive

Monitor resolution: We recommend a monitor resolution of 1024x768 or preferably higher.

Software: All image files are viewable by softwares which do not require video cards to be installed. AVI, MOV, QT, and MPG movie files can be viewed by software programs and there is no need for a video card. Movie files with sound require a sound card. WAV, and AU sound files can be played by software through the PC speaker. The quality of sound will be dependent upon the speaker. Most internet software applications require an active internet connection in order to run. To some extent, local HTML files are browsable without an internet connection by word processing softwares. Many other aspects of the journal may require other software and/or hardware. In order to see information about viewing videos please click here.

Internet connection: PPP internet connection (minimum 28.8kbps), and appropriate softwares.

Browser: You can view the "Frontiers in Bioscience" using different types of browsers. However, we recommend the most recent version of Netscape or Internet Explorer. Your browser should have the capability of showing graphics and handling frames. Considering that images, video and sound clips are an integral part of certain databases and documents, a graphical browser is highly recommended. As the browsers develop more features, we keep adding these new features to the journal. Therefore, we highly recommend that you periodically upgrade your browser. Unless you upgrade your browser, you will not be able to take advantage of new features. In addition, old browsers may not display the new pages of the journal properly. If you experience problems and have an older browser, please consider updating your browser. Maxthon which was known as MyIE2 is a full featured browser with many security features and unique attributes not found in other browsers. FBS supports the use of this browser.

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For browsers with the capability to show frames and interepret Javascript, buttons are included in the current issue that allows an index of the entire journal and virtual library to be displayed in the left (as a frame) or as a floating index (with the use of Javascript).

Readers can write their views to the editorial office. Questions posed to the authors of a given manuscript can be sent directly to the author or to the editorial office of the Frontiers in Bioscience. Once answered by the authors, both the question and the answer will appear in the published manuscript. Erratum will also appear within the published manuscripts.