Osnovan v 1975 g. akademikom Yu.A. Ovchinnikovy'm. Zhurnal «Bioorganicheskaya himiya» publikuet stati, posvyashhenny'e issledovaniyam v oblasti bioorganicheskoj himii, biohimii, molekulyarnoj i kletochnoj biologii. Izdanie osveshhaet voprosy' genomiki, proteomiki, bioinformatiki, immunologii, molekulyarnoj virusologii, molekulyarnoj e'volyuczii i molekulyarnoj biologii razvitiya. Yavlyaetsya reczenziruemy'm i vhodit v Perechen VAK. C 2000 g. zhurnal «Bioorganicheskaya himiya» vklyuchen v mezhdunarodny'e bazy' danny'h Chemical Abstracts, Science Citation Index, Current Contents/LifeSciences, Reaction Citation Index, Biochemistry and Biophysics Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, Chemistry Citation Index, ISI Alerting Services, MEDLINE, EMBASE (Excerpta Medica), AGRICOLA i dr.