Molecular Biophysics

This section of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS) aims to rapidly publish significant contributions on all aspects of the physical principles governing biomolecular and biomimetic systems. We encourage the submission of manuscripts that provide novel and mechanistic insights and papers that report significant advances in the fields. The reliability of the results provided by novel tools for virtual screening and/or the discovery of new actives by virtual screening must be either validated in silico or in vitro before first submission of a manuscript to IJMS. Theoretical studies should offer new insights into understanding experimental results and/or suggest new experimentally testable hypotheses. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• molecular structure and dynamics
• nucleic acid structure and dynamics
• protein structure and dynamics
• membrane structure and dynamics
• biomimetic material structure and dynamics
• molecular simulations
• molecular modeling
• single molecule biophysics
• biophysical techniques in the study of biomacromolecular and biomimetic systems
• biomolecular interactions
• biomimetic material interactions
• macromolecular structure determination or prediction
• characterization of disordered proteins and their interactions
• computational biophysics
• bioinformatics
• biophysical and computational approaches to drug design and development
• advances in molecular biophysical methodologies as well as imaging techniques and data analysis
• application of biophysical methods

Keywords:

biophysics; molecular imprinting; molecular simulations; molecular structure; molecular dynamics; molecular mechanics; thermodynamics; biomolecular interactions; protein structure and folding; intrinsically disordered proteins; structure prediction; nucleic acid–protein interactions; protein–membrane interactions; protein–DNA interactions; posttranslational modifications; drug–receptor interactions; protein design; protein engineering; protein–ligand binding; transmembrane proteins; chaperones; enzymology; molecular recognition; molecular modeling; membrane dynamics; macromolecular structure and dynamics; DNA structure and dynamics; RNA structure; genome structure; structure–function relationships; ion channels; spectroscopic techniques; biomolecular NMR; inter-molecular interactions; x-ray crystallography; macromolecular crystallography; crystal thermodynamics; microcalorimetry; transient kinetic techniques; fluorescence imaging; single-molecule microscopy; statistical mechanics; computer simulations; computational modeling; molecular modeling