The Journal of Theoretical Biology is the leading forum for theoretical perspectives that give insight into biological processes. It covers a very wide range of topics and is of interest to biologists in many areas of research, including:? Brain and Neuroscience ? Cancer Growth and Treatment ? Cell Biology ? Developmental Biology ? Ecology ? Evolution ? Immunology,? Infectious and non-infectious Diseases, ? Mathematical, Computational, Biophysical and Statistical Modeling ? Microbiology, Molecular Biology, and Biochemistry ? Networks and Complex Systems ? Physiology ? Pharmacodynamics ? Animal Behavior and Game TheoryPlease note that the biological significance of the problem being studied should be clearly stated.Acceptable papers are those that bear significant importance on the biology being presented, and not on the mathematical analysis, per se. Papers that include some data will be considered, including those that contain comparative study, statistical data analysis, mathematical proof, computer simulations, experiments, field observations, or even philosophical arguments, which are all methods to support or reject theoretical ideas. However, there should be a concerted effort to make papers intelligible to biologists in the chosen field.Highly speculative papers not based on current biological knowledge will not be accepted. Also not acceptable are papers in which only mathematics is utilized, or standard statistical methods are applied to existing genomic data, without new theoretical perspective or biologically novel insight.Comment on theoretical issues or on papers published in the journal is welcomed in the form of Letters to the Editors.

《理論生物學雜志》是提供深入了解生物過程的理論觀點的領先論壇。它涵蓋了非常廣泛的主題，并在許多研究領域引起生物學家的興趣，包括:?大腦和神經科學?癌癥的生長和治療?細胞生物學?發育生物學?生態?進化?免疫學、?傳染性和非傳染性疾病，?數學、計算、生物物理和統計建模?微生物學、分子生物學和生物化學?網絡和復雜系統?生理學?藥效學?動物行為和博弈論請注意，應清楚說明正在研究的問題的生物學意義。可接受的論文是那些對所呈現的生物學有重要意義的論文，而不是對數學分析本身有重要意義的論文。包括一些數據的論文將被考慮，包括那些包含比較研究、統計數據分析、數學證明、計算機模擬、實驗、現場觀察，甚至哲學論證的論文，這些都是支持或反對理論觀點的方法。然而，應該齊心協力使所選領域的生物學家能夠理解論文。不基于現有生物學知識的高度推測性論文將不予接受。同樣不能接受的是，僅使用數學，或將標準統計方法應用于現有的基因組數據，而沒有新的理論視角或生物學上的新見解的論文。歡迎對理論問題或發表在期刊上的論文發表意見，并寫信給編輯。