BMC Biology is an online open access scientific journal that publishes original, peer-reviewed research in all fields of biology

Biology

Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...

, together with opinion and comment articles. The journal is part of a series of BMC journals

BMC journals

The BMC-series of journals are a collection of over 100 online research journals published by BioMed Central. Like all BioMed Central journals, they have a policy of open access to the research articles they publish. Between them, they cover all major subject areas within biology and medicine...

 published by the UK-based publisher BioMed Central

BioMed Central

BioMed Central is a UK-based, for-profit scientific publisher specialising in open access journal publication. BMC, and its sister companies Chemistry Central and PhysMath Central, publish over 200 scientific journals. Most BMC journals are now published only online. BMC describes itself as the...

. It is considered the flagship biology journal within the BMC series, and since 2010 has incorporated what was previously the separate Journal of Biology

Journal of Biology

The Journal of Biology was a scientific journal published by BioMed Central. It was launched in 2002 with the aim to provide an open-access alternative to the Top-tier Biology journals Nature, Science and Cell...

, which had been the premier BioMed Central journal. It published 88 research articles in 2009.

BMC Biology is covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, EMBASE, Scopus, Zoological Record, CABI, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.