The journal

By fostering a collegial and collaborative approach, the curators of Biophysics Colab have combined high-quality peer review with the principles of open science to create a journal that supports and benefits the community. Their ‘Publish, Review, Curate’ model accelerates communication of research findings whist improving equity, inclusivity and transparency in knowledge exchange.

The service-oriented workflow places researchers at the heart of the publication process, allowing them to decide when to publish their research as a preprint and whether to solicit advice from the Biophysics Colab community. The curators will endeavour to review all submissions that describe original research into the physicochemical mechanisms underlying physiological processes but may instead provide less formal feedback if peer review would not be in the authors’ best interest.

Curators recruit inclusive teams of reviewers who collaborate to produce a single set of constructive comments intended to improve the rigour, interpretation and transparency of the work. Authors then decide whether to finalize their study or request further advice from their reviewing team. Like the initial preprint, all reports, responses, and revisions are made publicly available.

Studies with appropriate rigour, interpretation and transparency are highlighted as Curated Preprints together with a final evaluation. Authors can also create a Version of Record by publishing their work as a Research Article in the journal Biophysics Colab.

To submit your preprint, please email enquiries@sciencecolab.org

The Community

Founders:
Richard W Aldrich, Lesley C Anson, José Faraldo-Gómez, Sharona E Gordon, Vasanthi Jayaraman, Merritt Maduke, Stephan A Pless, Janice L Robertson, Kenton J Swartz, William N Zagotta

Steering Group:
Lesley C Anson (chairperson), Lucie Delemotte, Erika Fernández-Vizarra, Marcel P Goldschen-Ohm, Sharona E Gordon, Alexander S Hauser, Rebecca J Howard, León D Islas, Huong T Kratochvil, Stephan A Pless, Gary Rudnick, Renae M Ryan, Kenton J Swartz

Curators:
Rene Barro-Soria, University of Miami
Alexander T Chesler, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH 
Lucie Delemotte, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Erika Fernandez-Vizarra, University of Zaragoza
Rachelle Gaudet, Harvard University
Marcel P Goldschen-Ohm, The University of Texas at Austin
Alexander S Hauser, University of Copenhagen
Rebecca J Howard, Stockholm University
León D Islas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Syma Khalid, University of Oxford
Huong T Kratochvil, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jerome Lacroix, Western University of Health Sciences
Yun (Lyna) Luo, Western University of Health Sciences
Merritt Maduke, Stanford University
Chloé Martens, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Christopher Mulligan, University of Kent
Simon Newstead, University of Oxford
Medha M Pathak, University of California, Irvine
Stephan A Pless, University of Copenhagen
Kate Poole, University of New South Wales
Michael Pusch, Istituto di Biofisica del CNR
Janice L Robertson, Washington University in Saint Louis
Gary Rudnick, Yale University School of Medicine
Renae M Ryan, University of Sydney
Show-Ling Shyng, Oregon Health & Science University
Alastair G Stewart, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
Kenton J Swartz, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH
Sotiria Tavoulari, University of Cambridge
David M Thal, Monash University
Shizhen (Jeff) Wang, University of Missouri-Kansas City
William N Zagotta, University of Washington

Alumni:
Richard W Aldrich, Sudha Chakrapani, Baron Chanda, José Faraldo-Gómez, Lucy R Forrest, Teresa Giráldez, Miriam B Goodman, Inga Hänelt, Vasanthi Jayaraman, Vera Y Moiseenkova-Bell, Brad S Rothberg

Reviewers (2021-2024):
Atanu Acharya, Suraj Adhikary, Christopher Ahern, Claudia Alleva, Mark Arcario, Angela Ballesteros, Arisbel Batista Gondin, Manu Ben-Johny, Tripta Bhatia, Moitrayee Bhattacharyya, Anna Boccaccio, Olga Boudker, Ingrid Carvacho, Rosie Cater, Sayan Chakraborty, Tao Che, Alex Chesler, Han Chow Chua, Sandipan Chowdhury, Oliver Clarke, Jorge Contreras, John Cowgill, Paul Crichton, Laszlo Csanady, Jianmin Cui, Tom DeCoursey, Diego del Alamo, Surbhi Dhingra, Christopher Draper-Joyce, Julian Echave, Eric Evans, Ana Fernández-Mariño, Gabriel Fitzgerald, Javier Garcia-Nafria, Rikki Garner, Rachelle Gaudet, Alfred George Jr, Leon Glass, Marcel Goldschen-Ohm, Moshe Gordon, Christof Grewer, Kallol Gupta, Yoni Haitin, Nandan Haloi, Yun Huang, Tzyh-Chang Hwang, Qiu-xing Jiang, Yogesh Kalakoti, Valeriia Kalienkova, Baruch Kanner, Toshi Kawate, George Khelashvili, Antonios Kolocouris, Nora Kory, Jerome Lacroix, Elodie Laine, Elena Lehmann, Yan Li, Sara Liin, Junlang Liu, Wei Lu, Yun Luo, Chloé Martens, Wei Mi, Alexandria Miller, Pablo Miranda, Laetitia Mony, Christopher Mulligan, Alec Nickolls, Yasushi Okamura, Manuel Palacín, Michael Palmgren, Aravind Penmatsa, Kasparas Petkevicius, Michael Puljung, Krishna Reddy, Xiaofeng Qi, Feng Qin, Janice Robertson, Piere Rodriguez Aliaga, Tibor Rohacs, Jason Schnell, Nanami Senoo, Azadeh Shahsavar, Zheng Shi, Show-Ling Shyng, Sukrit Singh, Steffen Sinning, Dirk Slotboom, Ruhma Syeda, Paolo Tammaro, Xiaofeng Tan, Roula Tavoulari, David Thal, Johanna Tiemann, Francesco Tombola, Samuel Usher, Robert Vandenberg, Paola Vergani, Shizhen Wang, Xiaoyu Wang, Lonnie Wollmuth, Qianyi Wu, Bailong Xiao, Lejla Zubcevic, Coyote-Maestas Paper Discussion Group, SciLifeLab Journal Club

To join the community, please email enquiries@sciencecolab.org

Financial model

Biophysics Colab is the first endeavour of Science Colab, a nascent non-profit organisation with a mission to develop an equitable, inclusive, and transparent publishing environment that supports and benefits the scientific community.

Our approach encourages community involvement by providing a rewarding environment for reviewers and non-exploitative peer review for authors. To that end, we offer reviewers and curators a small sum for each preprint they handle as a gesture of appreciation. The organisation also incurs essential costs associated with technology, administrative, and production services as well as registration, hosting and archiving fees. To cover these costs, we ask authors to pay an article processing charge (APC) that has been priced to avoid the generation of profit.

We nevertheless recognize that some researchers may have insufficient funding to pay this charge and would not refuse to provide high-quality feedback for this reason. It is hoped that additional funding and an innovative business model will allow Biophysics Colab to further minimize its APC in the future.

Abstracting and Indexing

The correct abbreviation for the journal is Biophys. Colab.

Biophysics Colab will apply for indexing and an electronic international standard serial number (EISSN) as soon as eligibility criteria are reached.