Open Access Biostatistics & Bioinformatics is an international open access journal that seeks new bio statistical models and methods, new statistical theory, as well as original applications of statistical methods, for important practical problems arising from the biological, medical, public health, and agricultural sciences. It also focuses on highest quality scientific papers and review articles of interest to academic and industrial researchers. It is intended that the journal cover the entire range of biostatistics, from theoretical advances to relevant and sensible translations of a practical problem into a statistical framework, including advances in bio statistical computing. Its main spotlight is on new developments in genome bioinformatics and computational biology. OABB also allows for data and software code to be appended, and opens the door for reproducible research allowing readers to easily replicate analysis described in papers. It gladly accepts original research papers, review articles, mini- reviews, short communication, opinions, letters to editors etc.