Mathematical Methods and Data Analysis in Health and Biomedical Sciences

Dear Colleagues,

The increasing importance of the mathematical modeling of applications of computational methods and of data analysis in medical sciences (and vice versa) has attracted the attention of both medical scientists and mathematicians. Though the worlds of mathematical and health sciences are not separated anymore, a full synergy effect is far from being reached. Frequently, it is difficult to find a proper balance between the expectations of the medical community and limitations of the computational methods that are currently available. In many cases, computer scientists and experts on mathematical modeling are not aware of the medical problems that might be solved using mathematical methods. Additionally, medical scientists do not always look for aid in finding answers to their questions in mathematics. There exists a large and hardly explored area of possible extensions of the applicability of different computational techniques in medical sciences. The most natural extensions include the development of higher accuracy methods and the implementation of new approaches that reveal some unknown (also unexpected) aspects of the considered subjects.

The present Special Issue of Life is aimed at the extension of areas where mathematics and medical sciences overlap and support each other. The submitted original and review articles may contain descriptions of mathematical models, of computational methods, and of new algorithms or may discuss the significance of some specific mathematics-based approaches in medical sciences. Papers dealing with medical data analysis, in particular with different aspects of graphical and numerical representations of the data and discussing various applications of the computational methods in different branches of medicine, in quality of life research, public health, bioinformatics, etc., are welcome.

Review articles should be comprehensive. The main text of review papers should be a minimum of 4000 words and include at least two figures or tables. Research articles: should have a main text that is 3000 words minimum and should have more than 30 references. Life has no restrictions on the maximum length of research manuscripts, provided that the text is concise and comprehensive.

1. Manuscripts should present an important novelty of the content and high potential impact in the relevant field of research;
2. They should have a high standard of English (expression, grammar, and spelling);
3. The experiment design should be sound and thorough, and the methodology should be described in detail to guarantee the reproducibility of the study;
4. For all Western blot figures, the densitometry readings/intensity ratio of each band should be included. In addition, the whole blot (uncropped blots) showing all the bands with all molecular weight markers on the Western blot should be included in the Supplemental Materials;
5. Manuscripts should include the reference of approval by the ethical committee for experimental studies.

Detailed instructions for formatting/preparing the manuscript can be found at: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/life/instructions.

Dr. Piotr Wąż
Dr. Dorota Bielińska-Wąż
Dr. Katarzyna Zorena
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Life is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.