Call for papers - Analysis of post-translational modifications

Guest Editors

Guohua Huang, PhD, Hunan University of Finance and Economics, China
Dukka KC, PhD, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Submission Status: Open | Submission Deadline: 25 May 2025

BMC Bioinformatics is welcoming submissions to our Collection on the analysis of post-translational modifications. This Collection invites submissions on novel computational or statistical approaches for the study of post-translational modifications.

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Meet the Guest Editors

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Guohua Huang, PhD, Hunan University of Finance and Economics, China

Guohua Huang received his Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Hunan Normal University in 2001, Master of Engineering Science degree in computer science and technology from Hunan University in 2009, and PhD degree in information and systems biology from Shanghai University in 2015. His research interests include DNA\RNA modification, protein post-translational modification, protein-protein interaction and drug repositioning. He serves as academic editor or guest editor for more than ten journals such as Current Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics and Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. He also serves as a reviewer for more than 50 international academic journals, including IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences, Journal of Computational Chemistry, Bioinformatics and BMC Bioinformatics.

Dukka KC, PhD, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Dukka KC is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology. His primary research interests are in the field of protein bioinformatics especially developing computational tools for deciphering protein sequence, structure, function relationship. Recently, his group has been developing large-language models based approaches for protein post-translational modification site prediction.

About the Collection

BMC Bioinformatics is welcoming submissions to our Collection on the analysis of post-translational modifications.

Post-translational modifications (PTMs), including phosphorylation, glycosylation, ubiquitination, nitrosylation, methylation, acetylation, and lipidation, play critical roles in modulating protein function, stability and localization. Computational tools that explore these modifications play an important role in uncovering their regulatory mechanisms and understanding their impact on cellular processes.

This Collection invites submissions on novel computational or statistical approaches for the study of post-translational modifications, with a focus on the identification, prediction, and functional analysis of PTMs. We encourage studies that introduce innovative strategies for elucidating the roles of PTMs in disease mechanisms.

There are currently no articles in this collection.

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original research, software and database articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Analysis of post-translational modifications" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.