CTMC NEWS

1) Department of Organic Chemistry II,
Faculty of Science and Technology
Euskal Heriko Univertsitatea (UPV/EHU),
Leioa, 48940, Bizkaia, Basque Country, Spain. (2) IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science ,
48011, Bilbao, Bizkaia, Basque Country, Spain. Ikerbaske: http://www.ikerbasque.net/humberto.gonzalez
Linkedin: http://linkd.in/UpodjS

Associate Editor:
Rhoda W. Joseph
Fox Chase Chemical Diversity Center, Inc
Doylestown, PA 18902, USA
Linkedin: http://linkd.in/WKCC8K

Manager Editor:
Ambreen Irshad
Bentham Science Publishers
Email: [email protected]

Editorial Director:
Matthew Honan, PhD FRSPH
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. Email: [email protected]
Url: www.benthamscience.com

CTMC OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS and/or GUEST EDITORS:
Dear colleagues I am glad to inform you that I am acting as co-Editor-In-Chief (EIC) of Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry (CTMC). In this sense, I invite you to read/share this open call for authors/guest-editors. CTMC is a prestigious journal listed by JCR ISI Web of Sci with a high Impact Factor in 2012 = 4.17!!! INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS AND/OR GUEST EDITORS: You only have to send an email with your paper and/or your proposal of special issue to Co-EIC Humberto González-Díaz, Email: [email protected]. Standalone papers shall by allocated by EICs in the special issue that better fits on paper topic. Special Issue Proposals should be focused on one topic selected by you. We strongly recommend authors of standalone papers to carefully read journal instructions previous to submission: http://www.benthamscience.com/ctmc/MSandI.htm

RECOMMENDED ISSUE TOPICS & SCOPE: All Classic topics of Medicinal Chemistry as well as New Trends and Enabling Technologies in Medicinal Chemistry including but not limited to:
(1) Organic Synthesis & Pharmacological Assays of new compounds; Natural compounds isolation and characterization;
(2) Chemoinformatics & Computational Chemistry: Methodological basis and applications to drug discovery of: QSAR, Docking, CoMFA-like methods, Quantum Chemistry & Molecular Mechanics (QM/MM), High-performance Computing (HPC), Cloud Computing, Biostatistics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learnig (ML), and Bio-inspired Algorithms like Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Genetic Algorithms, or Swarm Intelligence. (3) Bioinformatics & Biosystems: Methodological basis and applications to drug design, target or biomarkers discovery of: Alignment tools, Pathway analysis, Complex Networks, Non-linear methods, Microarray analysis, Software and Web servers
(4) High Throughput Screening (HTS) of drugs; Fragment Based Drug Discovery; Combinatorial chemistry and syntheis
(5) Molecular Biology, Genomics, and Proteomics for Drug Targets and Disease Biomarkers identification...;
(6) Nanotechnology, Nanochemistry, Polymer and Biopolymer chemistry, Material chemistry, and Conjugation chemistry for drug discovery, drug carriers design, vaccine design, or diagnostic tools development. PROPOSALS SHOULD INCLUDE: Short summary of the topic for the special issue you want to edit along with the posible titles, authors, affiliations, AND country of the main authors of these planned papers. Enclose also a list of your publications, patents, and/or meetings to asses your degree of expertise in the topic proposed. GUEST-EDITORS DUTIES: If approved by CTMC EICs, the Guest Editor should then set deadlines, send email request to authors who in turn should write the reviews, and follow-through as appropriate. The Guest Editors will have the discretion to write a review in their issue, but they are not essentially required to do so. CTMC shall supply you a personal link to access your own guest-editor backpack. BACKPACK is an online web page system that shall allow you upload, manage, and send all papers, cover, letters, copyright forms etc., you need to request from authors. CTMC shall send you official forms and all information necessary. Sntrongly recommend authors to read journal instructions: http://www.benthamscience.com/ctmc/MSandI.htm

NOTE FOR SCI EVENT MANAGERS: In the case you receive this invitation per being member of a scientific board and/or involved in event management of a scientific meeting take into account also the following aspects. (1) Please, forward the invitation to the person who may concern into the scientific board of the meeting in the case it do not fits on your duties. (2) The topic of the special issue should be the same of the meeting. (3) The guest-editor should select the papers that better fits in terms of quality and topic among those presented in the event. (4) The papers should be rewritten (in form and/or extension) by authors in order to fit journal standards of CTMC (http://www.benthamscience.com/ctmc/MSandI.htm). (5) Refereing of papers is not necessary in the case of sci meetings with peer-review of papers previous to acception if the authors do not made very important modifications of the manuscript presented. (6) Peer-review of papers by external referees is mandatory if it was necessary to present the paper in the meeting. (7) The guest-editor have to upload the filled reviewer opinion forms in official CTMC in anycase (read also general instructions at follows). (8) Papers should be letters, research papers, reviews, short-reviews or a combination of those formats (review + research). PUBLICATION CHARGES: CTMC papers will be published FREE OF CHARGE. However, the authors should be aware that there are fees to be payed for color figures, online pdf acces (pay-per-view) or additional post-print copies of full journal issues. ISSUE PUBLICATION: The completed special topic issue (when all papers are ready) should be submitted by means of the online BackPack system to the CTMC Editorial Board for final review, approval, and publication. EIC: Allen B Reitz, Prof. of Chemical Biology, Institute of Hepatitis and Virus Research, CEO, Fox C hase Chemical Diversity Center, Inc Doylestown, PA 18902, USA. Co-EIC: Humberto González-Díaz, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Spain. Associate Editor: Rhoda W Joseph, Fox C hase Chemical Diversity Center, Inc Doylestown, PA 18902, USA.