In this ‘behind the paper’ post, Hansol Im explains how the drive to test a hypothesis, collaboration and team work led them…
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Behind the paper Behind the paper: Modifying bacteria metabolism to increase susceptibility to antibioticsRead more
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Behind the paper Behind the paper: A bacteria strain that kills males and its co-evolution with its hostRead more
In this ‘behind the paper’ post, Ary Hoffmann explains how they found a Wolbachia strain that caused all-female offspring in infected flies…
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Behind the paper Behind the paper: human collaboration to study virus interactionsRead more
In this ‘behind the paper’ post, Anna Sims discusses her experience working in a virology lab during the height of the COVID-19…
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Biology Gordon Research Conference: Mechanisms of Microbial Transcription. (July 28 – Aug 2, 2019): Bryce NickelsRead 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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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 The XV Collection: Perverse Outcomes of Novel TherapiesRead more
by Andrew Read Yale professor Steve Stearns once warned that the transition from Young Turk to Old Turkey happens quickly…
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Biology The XV Collection: What Happens when the Antibiotic 1-2 Punch Backfires?Read more
by Michael Laub The rise of antibiotic resistance is a frightening reality. In response, many have insisted that we must find…
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Computational biology Predicting infectious disease epidemics, probing gene regulatory networks with memory functions, explaining microbial growth/yield trade-offsRead more
Check out our Editors-in-Chief’s selection of papers from the February issue of PLOS Computational Biology: Prediction of infectious disease epidemics…
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Computational biology Microbial association networks, error in sensorimotor learning, genetic drift in range expansionsRead more
Check out our highlights from the PLOS Computational Biology December issue: MPLasso: Inferring microbial association networks using prior microbial knowledge Microbial…
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Announcement Announcing the 2017 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize WinnersRead more
Earlier this year, PLOS Computational Biology launched the “PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize” program with the aim of recognizing the journal’s best Research…
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Announcement Genetics and microbiome of cattle methane production: 2017 PLOS Genetics Research Prize Winning ResearchRead more
The PLOS Genetics Editors-in-Chief and Senior Editors would like to congratulate: Rainer Roehe, Richard J. Dewhurst, Carol-Anne Duthie, John A. Rooke, Nest…
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Blog A neuron’s eye view, recovering from intestinal cleanout, and models of cancer cell line metabolismRead more
Check out our highlights from the PLOS Computational Biology August issue: A systems approach reveals distinct metabolic strategies among the NCI-60…