In this ‘behind the paper’ post, Özge Özgüç explains how curiosity-led side projects helped her keep going after a series of disappointing…
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Behind the paper Behind the paper: accepting “the creative cloud” as part of the processRead more
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Blog Understanding Images: Identifying a novel gene involved in hair disordersRead more
Author: Prashant Sharma, Undiagnosed Diseases Program, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health Competing interests: Prashant Sharma is an author…
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Biology Gordon Chronobiology Conference on Clocks in Model Organisms: Circadian Networks, Physiology and Health. (June 22 – 28, 2019): Charalambos KyriacouRead more
As part of its mission to encourage engagement within the genetics community, PLOS Genetics is sponsoring a number of conferences and meetings…
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Biology Understanding Images: Chimeric sugar transporters bring Greek mythology to the brewing industryRead more
Author: EmilyClare Baker is a postdoctoral scholar at the Institute of Ecology & Evolution, University of Oregon-Eugene. Competing Interests: EmilyClare Baker is…
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Cell biology Better Use of Mouse Models, Skin Infection Dynamics, and Phaser Cells in NavigationRead more
Check out our Editors-in-Chief’s selection of papers from the February issue of PLOS Computational Biology. Computational translation of genomic responses from…
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Cell biology Predicting Gene Enhancers; Optimising Vaccine Dose and Modelling Wound HealingRead more
Check out our Editors-in-Chief’s selection of papers from the October issue of PLOS Computational Biology. Prediction of gene regulatory enhancers across species reveals…
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Biology The XV Collection: Auxin Transport — more a River Delta than a StreamRead more
By Mark Estelle The sessile lifestyle of plants is enabled by remarkable developmental plasticity. Plant form is affected by a wide…
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Cell biology Learning to ignore, rare phenotype transitions, allostery in networks, and processing raw single-cell data.Read more
Irrelevance by inhibition: Learning, computation, and implications for schizophrenia Individuals with schizophrenia have difficulty ignoring ideas and experiences that most people…
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Biology The XV Collection: Living l’AVIDA loca — origins of multicellularityRead more
by Harmit Malik Even before John Maynard Smith formalized the term, evolutionary biologists have been fascinated by major evolutionary transitions…
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Cell biology Crowdsourcing plant phenomic data, bacterial niche construction abilities, protocell evolution, microRNA target predictionRead more
Check out our Editors-in-Chief’s selection of papers from the July issue of PLOS Computational Biology. Crowdsourcing image analysis for plant phenomics to generate ground truth…
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Biology PLOS Biology in the media – JulyRead more
The year is flying past, and July has been another month with several of our papers making the news. This month…
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Biology The XV Collection: Anatomy of a Protein Kinase Spine and How to Break ItRead more
by Ann Stock The post-translational addition of phosphate groups to serine, threonine and tyrosine residues is a fundamental strategy for…