Biology Direct serves the life science research community as an open access, peer-reviewed online journal, providing authors and readers with an alternative to the traditional model of peer review. Biology Direct considers original research articles, hypotheses, comments, discovery notes and reviews in selected subject areas, and will eventually cover the full spectrum of biology.

Subject areas already launched include:

•  Genomics, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology - Edited by Eugene Koonin, Laura Landweber, & David Lipman.
•  Immunology - Edited by Neil S Greenspan & David R Kaplan.
•  Mathematical Biology - Edited by Marek Kimmel.

All articles are available online, and in addition the website offers many other services:

• Quick and advanced search facilities.
• RSS feed, to deliver our latest articles directly to your news headline reader.
• Email articles directly to your friends and colleagues.
• Post a comment on an article, to add your opinion.

For details of the scope and types of article published by Biology Direct see About Biology Direct