We are happy to announce two changes that will help to highlight your research in Biophysical Journal: a new section on Computational Biophysics and the return of the Letters format!
 
The new Computational Biophysics section has been launched to encourage submission of papers on the development of methods and algorithms rational­izing biological data with biophysical/bioinformatic modeling, simulation, and artificial intelligence. We encourage submissions on research from the single molecule to the cellular level, even up to population levels representing biodi­versity, as well as on integrative modeling of complex biological systems that marry data from multiple experimental and computational techniques. The new section will be headed by Associate Editor Jeremy Smith (University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Center for Molecular Biophysics) and new Editorial Board Members Liang Hong (Shanghai Jiaotong University), Syma Khalid (University of Oxford), and Abhishek Singharoy (Arizona State University).
 
Also, we are once again accepting submissions of Letters! These are short articles (no more than five pages) on diverse areas that report exceptionally important results in an accelerated manner. A Letter should be of interest to a wide variety of readers and should potentially change the way the reader thinks about an important topic or address a critical question; it should tell a complete story without needing extensive data analysis, and it is not meant to serve as a means of publishing preliminary results. The criteria for acceptance of a Letter are more stringent than for regular articles, and particular attention will be paid to the significance of the results. 
 
We hope that you are as excited as we are about these opportunities to contribute to Biophysical Journal! To submit a Letter, a Computational Biophysics paper, or any other work for consideration in the Journal, please go to www.biophysj.org for more information.