Nucleic Acids Research ( NAR ) publishes the results of leading edge research into physical, chemical, biochemical and biological aspects of nucleic acids and proteins involved in nucleic acid metabolism and/or interactions. It enables the rapid publication of papers under the following categories: Chemistry and synthetic biology; Computational biology; Gene regulation, chromatin and epigenetics; Genome integrity, repair and replication; Genomics; Molecular biology; Nucleic acid enzymes; RNA and Structural biology. A Survey and Summary section provides a format for brief reviews. The first issue of each year is devoted to biological databases, and an issue in July is devoted to papers describing web-based software resources of value to the biological community.

核酸研究(NAR)發表前沿研究成果，涉及核酸代謝和/或相互作用的核酸和蛋白質的物理、化學、生化和生物學方面。它能迅速出版下列類別的論文:化學和合成生物學;計算生物學;基因調控、染色質與表觀遺傳學;基因組完整性、修復和復制;基因組學;分子生物學;核酸酶;RNA和結構生物學。調查和總結部分提供了簡要回顧的格式。每年的第一期專門討論生物數據庫，7月份的一期專門討論描述對生物社區有價值的基于web的軟件資源的論文。