The Biology and Technological Research Institute - IBPT, initiated in 1946, the publication of Arquivos de Biologia e Tecnologia, with the objective to disseminate the researches carried by its technician. Published annually up to 1956, it was interrupted from 1957 to 1965, restarted with annual editions until the year of 1972. From 1973 to 1979 the magazine was published on a semesterly basis and in 1980 3 fascicles were published. From 1981 it started to be edited quarterly in March, June, September and December, this publication was kept until the present date.
Since its creation up to 1979, it published a great volume of research works elaborated by the IBPT's technicians, from 1980, it started to dedicate the first fascicle of each year to the summaries of the presented works in the Annual Meetings of the Brazilian Society of Biochemist - SBBQ, realized in Caxambu City - MG. Until 1989, 4,125 summaries were published, then the Arquivos de Biologia e Tecnologia stopped the edition of these summaries.
From 1998 the publication suffered several modifications, including the change of its name to Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology - BABT, the publication is registered under ISSN number 1516-8913. Since then, it only accepts works in the English language, what facilitates the dissemination of articles among the international scientific community, besides promoting the knowledge generated by the Brazilian researchers, extending its recognition among this community
