Physics of Life Reviews is an international journal appearing quarterly, that publishes review articles on physics of living systems, complex phenomena in biological systems, and related fields of artificial life, robotics, mathematical bio-semiotics, and artificial intelligent systems. This journal is a unifying force, going across the barriers between disciplines, addressing all living systems from molecules to populations and from genetics to mind and artificial systems modeling these phenomena. The journal invites reviews from actively working researchers, which are broad in scope, critical, accessible to our wide readership and addresses sometimes controversial accounts of recent progress and problems.

Physics of Life Reviews intends to keep the active researcher abreast of developments on a wide range of topics by publishing timely reviews, which are more than mere literature surveys but normally less than a full monograph. Although most of the reviews will be of a specialist nature, each review should contain enough introductory material to make the main points intelligible to a non-specialist and to inspire and facilitate interdisciplinary research. "Physics" in the journal name refers to the methodology unifying all areas of physics: (1) elucidating fundamental principles, (2) developing a mathematical model, (3) making experimentally verifiable predictions. We seek reviews aspiring to this universal paradigm.
The reviews should address in a clear way the most important conceptual issues in a field, review existing theories and methods with their achievements and drawbacks or difficulties versus the issues, unsolved problems addressed by a new theory, method, or approach, and why a significant progress is achieved or expected. Future research directions, remaining unsolved problems, and experimental confirmations or controversies should also be addressed.

Special Issue on 20th anniversary SI for Physics of Life Reviews
截稿日期: 2024-10-31

This special issue celebrates the 20th anniversary of Physics of Life Reviews (PLRev) by presenting short papers that provide follow-ups and state of the art overviews on topics addressed in PLRev articles that have had a high impact in their fields. The selection of papers has been made to balance the wide diversity of topics covered by PLRev and to highlight the role of this journal as a unifying force that transcends the boundaries between disciplines and addresses all living systems, from molecules to populations and from genetics to the mind.

Guest editors:

Executive Guest Editor
Prof. José Fontanari
Organization*: Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo - Caixa Postal 369, 13560-970 São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
Institutional Email Address*: fontanari@ifsc.usp.br
Areas of Expertise*: Biological physics; Statistical physics; Complex systems

Co-Guest Editors
Prof. Ernesto Di Mauro
Organization*: Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, CNR, Rome, Italy
Institutional Email Address*: ernesto.dimauro@fondazione.uniroma1.it
Areas of Expertise*: Molecular Biology; Origin of Life, DNA topology

Prof. Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii
Organization*: Graduate program in Bioinformatics, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Institutional Email Address*: mfk@bu.edu
Areas of Expertise*: DNA structures; DNA topology; DNA functioning

Manuscript submission information:

Submission Deadline: 31st October 2024

To submit your manuscript please go to the Editorial Manager of the Physics of Life Reviews (PLREV) via
https://www.editorialmanager.com/plrev/default.aspx and follow the procedures for manuscript submission. When prompted for 'Enter Manuscript Information' you can select our Special Issue Article type as ‘VSI:20th anniversary of PLRev ”. Author Guidelines can be found at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/physics-of-life-reviews/publish/guide-for-authors.

Keywords:

    Origin of Life; 
    Physics of DNA; 
    Protein Folding; 
    Brain organization; 
    Epidemics; 
    Language; 
    Emotions; 
    Evolutionary Game Theory; 
    Self-organization