Journal Title：Biotechnology Letters

Biotechnology Letters is the world’s leading rapid-publication primary journal dedicated to biotechnology as a whole – that is to topics relating to actual or potential applications of biological reactions affected by microbial, plant or animal cells and biocatalysts derived from them.

All relevant aspects of molecular biology, genetics and cell biochemistry, of process and reactor design, of pre- and post-treatment steps, and of manufacturing or service operations are therefore included.

Contributions from industrial and academic laboratories are equally welcome. We also welcome contributions covering biotechnological aspects of regenerative medicine and biomaterials and also cancer biotechnology. Criteria for the acceptance of papers relate to our aim of publishing useful and informative results that will be of value to other workers in related fields.

The emphasis is very much on novelty and immediacy in order to justify rapid publication of authors’ results. It should be noted, however, that we do not normally publish papers (but this is not absolute) that deal with unidentified consortia of microorganisms (e.g. as in activated sludge) as these results may not be easily reproducible in other laboratories.

Papers describing the isolation and identification of microorganisms are not regarded as appropriate but such information can be appended as supporting information to a paper. Papers dealing with simple process development are usually considered to lack sufficient novelty or interest to warrant publication.

Biotechnology Letters 是世界领先的快速出版主要期刊，致力于将生物技术作为一个整体——即与受微生物、植物或动物细胞影响的生物反应以及从中衍生的生物催化剂的实际或潜在应用相关的主题。

因此包括分子生物学、遗传学和细胞生物化学、工艺和反应器设计、预处理和后处理步骤以及制造或服务操作的所有相关方面。

同样欢迎来自工业和学术实验室的贡献。我们还欢迎有关再生医学和生物材料以及癌症生物技术的生物技术方面的贡献。接受论文的标准与我们发布有用且信息丰富的结果的目标有关，这些结果将对相关领域的其他工作人员有价值。

非常强调新颖性和即时性，以证明作者结果的快速发表是合理的。然而，应该注意的是，我们通常不会发表论文（但这不是绝对的）来处理未知的微生物群落（例如在活性污泥中），因为这些结果在其他实验室可能不容易重现。

描述微生物分离和鉴定的论文不被认为是合适的，但这些信息可以作为支持信息附加到论文中。涉及简单流程开发的论文通常被认为缺乏足够的新颖性或趣味性而无法发表。