ACS Synthetic Biology

Discipline	Synthetic biology, systems biology
Language	English
Edited by	Christopher Voigt
Publication details
History	2012-present
Publisher	American Chemical Society (United States)
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	5.110 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	ACS Synth. Biol.
Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	ASBCD6
ISSN	2161-5063
OCLC no.	725876736
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ACS Synthetic Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Chemical Society. It began publishing accepted articles in the Fall of 2011, with the first full monthly issue published in January 2012.^[1] It covers all aspects of synthetic biology, including molecular, systems, and synthetic research.^[2] The founding editor-in-chief is Christopher Voigt (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Types of articles

The journal publishes

• Letters: Short reports of original research focused on an individual finding
• Articles: Original research presenting findings of immediate, broad interest.
• Reviews: Expert perspectives and analyses of recently published research
• Technical Notes: Concise communications that focus on the characterization of new or interesting tools and websites
• Tutorials: Detailed descriptions of synthetic, computational, and systems methodologies^[2]