Butterflies’ special place in human culture stems from the fact that they have used their wings not only for flight, but as…

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Here are some of our highlights from the last PLOS CB issue of 2015.. Network-Based Isoform Quantification with RNA-Seq Data New sequencing technologies…

By 2016, most scientifically literate people have come to accept the inevitability of climate change. But what’s much less clear is how…

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Header Image Credit: Maesani et al. Here are our highlights from November’s PLOS Computational Biology: Finding New Order in Biological Functions from the…

When an American dentist killed a beloved African lion named Cecil last summer, the world responded with outrage. But for biologists, the…

The PLOS Genetics Editors-in-Chief and Senior Editors would like to congratulate: João Barroso-Batista, Ana Sousa, Marta Lourenço, Marie-Louise Bergman, Daniel Sobral, Jocelyne…

Authors: Niklaus Zemp is a Post Doctoral Researcher and Alex Widmer is a Professor, both based at the Institute of Integrative Biology…

Here are our highlights from October’s PLOS Computational Biology: A Pan-Cancer Catalogue of Cancer Driver Protein Interaction Interfaces Until now, most…