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Highlight your research and enhance its visibility to your field by submitting to our Collections, carefully curated to capture trends in fast-moving fields of science and regularly associated with an open call for papers. All manuscripts in curated Collections are selected and managed by the journal's Editors according to our standard procedures.

  • Biotechnology for a circular economy 2025

    This collection welcomes research in, but not limited to carbon assimilation, biomanufacturing, waste management, and bioenergy. We are also interested in computational methodology development related to all of the above fields.
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 October 2025

    • Orphan crop genomics and improvement 2025

      This Orphan Crop Genomics and Improvement Collection welcomes submissions on orphan crops genomics, genetics, and breeding.
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 October 2025

      • Context specificity in human genetics

        With this cross-journal Collection, the editors at Nature Communications and Communications Biology invite manuscripts that investigate genetic associations that are specific to certain contexts.
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 25 January 2026

        • Artificial intelligence in RNA biology

          With this cross-journal Collection, the editors at Nature Communications and Communications Biology invite manuscripts that showcase the development and application of AI-driven approaches leveraging big data to advance our understanding of RNA biology.
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 21 October 2025

          • DNA repair and human disease

            This cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Biology and Scientific Reports welcomes submissions on the mechanisms of DNA repair using multiple modelling systems and the applications of DNA repair mechanisms in human disease diagnosis and treatment.
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              Submission status: Open Deadline: 18 October 2025

            • Cancer Cell Atlases

              With this cross-journal Collection, the editors at Nature Communications, Communications Biology, and Scientific Reports invite submissions that expand the current catalog of cancer cell atlases using state-of-the-art omics techniques and algorithms.
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                Submission status: Open Deadline: 15 January 2026

              • Health outcomes of adversity in early life

                This cross-journal collection welcomes submissions investigating any health outcome resulting from adversity experienced in early life, including studies focused on prevention, epidemiological factors, pathophysiological mechanisms, the impact of socioeconomic factors, or advances in treatment options.
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                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 25 December 2025

                • Cancer epigenetics and epitranscriptomics

                  With this cross-journal Collection, the editors at Nature Communications, Communications Biology, Communications Medicine and Scientific Reports invite submissions covering the breadth of research carried out in the field of cancer epigenetics and epitranscriptomics.
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                    Submission status: Open Deadline: 22 December 2025

                  • DNA-Based Computing and Data Storage

                    This cross-journal Collection shines a spotlight on research exploring DNA as a scalable and sustainable medium for computing and data storage.
                      Collection
                      Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 December 2025

                    • Lipids in Cell Biology

                      This cross-journal collection highlights the sometimes surprising and often underappreciated functions of lipids in orchestrating cell biology via organelles and the plasma membrane.
                        Collection
                        Submission status: Open Deadline: 03 December 2025

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