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Microbiology Resource Announcements (MRA) is an online-only, fully open access journal that publishes articles announcing the availability of any microbiological resource deposited in a repository available to the community. In addition to genome sequences of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in public databases, as published in Genome Announcements, MRA will consider metagenomics sequences, amplicon sequence collections, metabolomics data, proteome data, culture collections, mutant libraries, plasmids and other genetic constructs, and publicly available databases and software. Manuscripts submitted to MRA will be peer reviewed for appropriate content and handled by a board of Senior Editors who will accept manuscripts at their discretion.
MRA requirements have recently changed. Before proceeding with your submission, please download the MRA Author Checklist for required items.
MRA welcomes the following article types for publication:
- Announcements
- Commentaries
- Letters to the Editor
ASM primary research journals will consider for publication manuscripts that have been posted in a recognized preprint archive. Please review our preprint policy announcement for more information.
Benefits of publishing:
- Rapid decisions
- Published by a Scientific Society
- Compliant with Funder Mandates
- Final copyedited, composed articles posted weekly
- Open access publication: wide dissemination
- Authors retain copyright under a
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