Biometrical Journal Special Issue
The organisers of ISCB 2015 and the editors of Biometrical Journal intend to publish a selection of manuscripts of articles arising from the ISCB 2015 in the Biometrical Journal as a special issue:
“Clinical Research Design, Rare Diseases and Personalised Medicine“
This Special Issue aims to publish on a fast track high quality papers on cutting edge biostatistical methods for clinical research. The intention is to provide a topical collection of scientific papers presented (orally or as posters) at ISCB 2015.
Statistical methods for (innovative) design and analysis of clinical trials, and especially in case of small populations, have turned out to be major themes of the ISCB 2015 conference. The special issue will therefore specifically be open to papers covering original research on innovative design, rare diseases and personalised medicine.
All papers will be subject to strict peer review according the rules of the journal with an online publication scheduled for August 2016. The review process will be handled by the Special Issue guest editors: Prof Kit C.B. Roes (University Medical Center Utrecht, Chair of the Scientific Programme Committee), and two others to be determined.
Manuscript submission
The organisers of ISCB 2015 and the editors of the journal invite participants of the conference to be prepared to submit manuscripts as follows.
The submission of manuscripts will be handled through the website of Biometrical Journal and the established electronic procedures. Please submit your manuscript to Manuscript Central. Indicate at Step 1 that the submission is to a special issue and at Step 4 of the submission process enter "ISCB 2015" in the Special Issue Information field. You can submit you manuscript only between September 1st and November 1st, 2015.
Submitted manuscripts should fully comply with the Author Guidelines of Biometrical Journal. It is recommended to use the style file of the journal and to adhere to the general aims and scope of Biometrical Journal as given in the Instructions to Authors (PDF).
Please note that the Biometrical Journal is devoted to Reproducible Research, details can be found on its website. Authors who intend to submit programs (R language and SAS preferred), original data sets and details of simulations are asked to indicate this already at submission and to download “ready to run” material such that in can be examined during the review process for this Special Issue.
If you need any further information, please contact Kit Roes.
