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Future Directions at PLOS Computational Biology
This week PLOS Computational Biology publishes a pair of Editorials by Philip E. Bourne and Ruth Nussinov, who outline some important leadership shifts and point to exciting new developments in a...
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Visit PLOS at ISMB/ECCB 2013, Berlin, Germany, July 21-23
PLOS is pleased to be attending the ISMB/ECCB 2013 International Society for Computational Biology meeting held this year in Berlin, Germany, July 21-23. Image credit: PLOS Be sure to visit us at Booth...
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Translational Bioinformatics: Call for papers
Following the successful launch of the PLOS Computational Biology collection ‘Translational Bioinformatics’, we are delighted to announce the continued development of this collection with a call for...
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One Million Views
The Ten Simple Rules series of articles has been one of the unexpected surprises and pleasures arising from the community journal PLOS Computational Biology. That the collection has reached one million...
View ArticleBuilding a community resource: the ISCB Wikipedia Competition
Educating current and future generations of computational biologists is one of the main objectives of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and the society has come up with an...
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The Significance of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Challenges Ahead
Following the announcement of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, PLOS Computational Biology Editor-in-Chief Ruth Nussinov discusses the implications of this award for both the computational biology and...
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Controlling medically-induced comas, deciding not to decide, and a note from...
Here’s our pick of the best PLOS Computational Biology content for October. PLOS Comp Biol Featured Image for October. Image Credit: Fan Jin, Luhua Lai, and Zhirong Liu (College of Chemistry and...
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Reconstructing gene regulatory networks, dreading future pain and the About...
Here is our selection PLOS Computational Biology highlights for November. PLOS Comp Biol Featured Image for November. Image Credit: Guido Polles The study of gene regulatory networks is essential to...
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The Changing Face of Education at PLOS Computational Biology
In January 2006, Fran Lewitter, PLOS Computational Biology Founding Education Editor, announced the launch of a new Education column in the journal. This new column recognised the need for...
View ArticleOutside the Box – Get Involved
How are computational methods being used across disciplines? PLOS Computational Biology Founding Editor-in-Chief Phil Bourne calls for examples. An advantage of being a part time university...
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The Pick of RECOMB 2014
Image courtesy of Leslie Gaffney of The Broad Institute. Keen bioinformaticians will soon be on their way to the RECOMB 2014 conference, this year held in Pittsburgh, USA, April 2nd -5th. At PLOS...
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Detecting cancer-causing genes, computing how to beat jetlag and a review of...
Here is our selection of PLOS Computational Biology highlights for April. Computer-based multi-client game for investigating human group movement. Image credit: Johannes Pritz, Courant Research Centre...
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Meet the “PLOSSE” at ISMB 2014
Heading to the ISCB’s annual conference, ISMB 2014, July 11– 15, in Boston this year? Swing by Booth 409 and say hello to PLOS! PLOS Computational Biology staff Clare Weaver and Chris Hall will be...
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Stories from the road: Trials and tribulations of the ISCB Student Council
The Student Council for the International Society for Computational Biology was established in 2004 to promote the development of computational biology among young scientists. The group runs events and...
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Lessons from the fruit fly, spatial transmission of influenza and the...
Here is a selection of PLOS Computational Biology highlights for June. Stepping Up a Notch: An Expanded Mathematical Model for Notch-Delta Signaling. Image Credit: Jerry S. Chen and Robert W. Zeller...
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CHARMMing molecular simulations, midge swarms, and swimming C. elegans: the...
This month’s issue saw the publication of three Education articles: Web Based Computational Education with CHARMMing. In Part I: Lessons and Tutorial, Miller et al. present their freely available,...
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Pupil size and decision making, timing evolutionary innovation and...
Here’s our pick of the highlights from September’s PLOS Computational Biology. The precision with which people make decisions can be predicted by measuring pupil size before they are presented with any...
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Protein structure prediction, pleiotropic patterns, and more: the PLOS Comp...
Here are our highlights from October’s PLOS Computational Biology. Proteins execute many functions in the cell, and these biological functions are strongly linked to their three-dimensional structure....
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Monitoring progress in translational bioinformatics
It is with great enthusiasm that the PLOS Computational Biology Education Editors present this invited blog post from Russ Altman, in what we hope will be a yearly feature for PLOS Biologue. It is a...
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Predicting diseases with Wikipedia, how the brain modifies memories, and...
Here are our highlights from November’s PLOS Computational Biology. Predicting Diseases with Wikipedia Effective and timely disease surveillance is a critical component of prevention and mitigation...
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