Call for papers - Bioinformatics platforms for the study and detection of anti-microbial resistance

Guest Editors

Rafi Ahmad, BPharm, MSc, PhD, University of Inland Norway, Norway
Christina Boucher, BMath, MSc, PhD, University of Florida, USA

Submission Status: Open | Submission Deadline: 17 November 2025

BMC Bioinformatics is welcoming submissions to our Collection on Bioinformatics platforms for the study and detection of antimicrobial resistance.
This Collection welcomes submissions on the development of new computational and/or statistical approaches for the study of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

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Meet the Guest Editors

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Rafi Ahmad, BPharm, MSc, PhD, University of Inland Norway, Norway

Rafi is a Professor at the University of Inland Norway and the University of Southampton, UK. He possesses six years of experience within the life sciences industry, having held positions at AstraZeneca, Dassault Systèmes, and Medivir. Rafi has spearheaded drug discovery projects focusing on infection and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). His main research interests include rapid diagnostics for bacterial infections, AMR, and AST. He leads several projects on rapid diagnosis using nanopore technology and has secured research funding from national and international agencies.

Christina Boucher, BMath, MSc, PhD, University of Florida, USA

Dr Boucher is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida, with over 150 publications in bioinformatics, including significant contributions to succinct data structures and sequence alignment. She has been an invited keynote speaker at prominent conferences such as MemPanG 2023, Genome Informatics 2022, the International Genome Graphs Symposium 2022, and multiple RECOMB and ECCB workshops.

She oversees the development of widely used bioinformatics software, including MEGARes, AMRPlusPlus, METAMarc, Moni, and Moni-Align. Her research involves extensive collaboration across microbiology, veterinary medicine, epidemiology, public health, and clinical sciences. She has served as Program Chair for ISMB 2024 (Track Chair), SPIRE 2020, RECOMB-SEQ 2019, and ACM-BCB 2018 and is a member of the RECOMB SEQ Steering Committee and ISMB HiTSeq Organizing Committee. She was nominated as a standing member of the NIH BDMA Study Section in 2021 for a six-year term.

About the Collection

BMC Bioinformatics is welcoming submissions to our Collection on Bioinformatics platforms for the study and detection of antimicrobial resistance.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a significant threat to global health, necessitating advanced tools to detect and analyze resistance mechanisms. Bioinformatics platforms can help researchers identify AMR determinants within genomic and metagenomic data, providing insights into the spread and evolution of resistance genes. These platforms are important for public health surveillance, guiding the development of targeted interventions and informing policy decisions.

This Collection welcomes submissions on the development of new computational and/or statistical approaches for the study of antimicrobial resistance. We encourage contributions that highlight innovative methods for detecting resistance genes and integrating genomic data with phenotypic information.

All manuscripts submitted to this journal, including those submitted to collections and special issues, are assessed in line with our editorial policies and the journal’s peer review process. Reviewers and editors are required to declare competing interests and can be excluded from the peer review process if a competing interest exists.

There are currently no articles in this collection.

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original research, database and software 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 "Bioinformatics platforms for the study and detection of anti-microbial resistance" from the dropdown menu.

All manuscripts submitted to this journal, including those submitted to collections and special issues, are assessed in line with our editorial policies and the journal’s peer review process. Reviewers and editors are required to declare competing interests and can be excluded from the peer review process if a competing interest exists.