2017 Reviewer Award winners announced
IOP is proud to recognize excellence in reviewing, and each year our journal editorial teams select the best reviewers of the year based on the quality, quantity and timeliness of their reviews. Please click here to see the list of winners for Physical Biology.
Peer Review forms the backbone of scholarly communication, providing essential rigour and validation for published papers. IOP Publishing wishes to thank everyone that provides this valuable service, and especially recognise those who contribute exceptional reviews.

Accepted manuscripts
PB now offers an accepted-manuscript service, meaning your research can be downloaded and cited within 24 hours of acceptance. To benefit from this service, submit your manuscript and leave the `Accepted Manuscript` check box un-ticked.

Visit iopscience.org/accepted-manuscripts for more information, or contact physbio@iop.org.

Accepted manuscripts

Accepted manuscripts—research can be downloaded and cited within 24 hours of acceptance.

Understand the impact of your research
We are pleased to announce a new partnership with Altmetric to provide a deeper understanding of how published research is being used. Altmetric gathers data from any online forum where published research is being discussed and displays it in an easy-to-read format on the article page on IOPscience.

Look for the Altmetric badge on any article to discover how the research is being used and shared around the world. Find out more about Altmetric and how the Altmetric Attention Score is calculated.

PB becomes the official journal of the Latin American Biophysical Society (SOBLA)
We are happy to announce thatPhysical Biology has become the official journal of the Latin American Biophysical Society (SOBLA). As a result, SOBLA members will now enjoy complimentary online access to PB. We are delighted to have SOBLA on board.

Letters
From 2016 Physical Biology offers another publication option: Letters.

Letters are concise articles, reporting significant advances, which warrant accelerated peer review and publication, and are therefore a great way of getting your important results published fast.

Highlights of 2015
We present a selection of papers that highlight the best research published in Physical Biology during 2015. All of these articles are free to read until 31 December 2016.

Physics of cancer
Physical Biology publishes many papers on the physics of cancer, including regular special issues or sections. Many of these papers are collected on our physics of cancer page.

Perspectives on working at the physics-biology interface
Howard Berg and Krastan Blagoev have curated a collection of perspectives from eminent researchers in the field of biological physics. We asked them: what did they find challenging about biology, and how did they manage to begin work in such a different field? What advice might they have for younger practitioners of the art? Read about their experiences here.

Physicists reveal random nature of metastasis
The spreading of a cancerous tumour from one part of the body to another may occur through pure chance instead of key genetic mutations, a new study published inPhysical Biology has shown.