Hopefully you know already about the PLOS partnership with protocols.io; if you don’t, PLOS announced this almost exactly a month ago. What…
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Announcement Protocols: The Devil is in the Details
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Community Accidents Will Happen… Introducing LabCIRS
Ever wondered how a laboratory (or a scientific research department) should best manage its day-to-day operations? In a recently published PLOS…
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Bioinformatics A Focus on Allostery, Programming for Bioscientists, Ten Simple Rules for Effective Stats Practice: the PLOS Comp Biol June Issue
Check out our highlights from the PLOS Computational Biology June 2016 Issue: Allostery Focus Feature This Focus Feature, led by Jin…
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Announcement Is the p-value pointless?
For the first time in its 177-year history, the American Statistical Association (ASA) has voiced its opinion and made specific recommendations for…
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Funding A Crisis at NCRIS – Australia’s Science Infrastructure under Threat.
by Ginny Barbour (updated March 16th – see foot of post) There’s a high-stakes game of chicken currently being played out in…
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Biology This week in PLOS Biology
In PLOS Biology this week, you can read about a fundamental step in the making of plant oils and the pitfalls of…
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Biology This week in PLOS Biology
In PLOS Biology this week you can read about life without microbes, host-parasite coevolution, the temporal precision of distinguishing odours and how…
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Bioinformatics Measuring the success of an online bioinformatics resource
Like many other journals, PLOS Computational Biology aims to publish research that helps to further the field and develop the community that…
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Bioinformatics This week in PLOS Biology
In PLOS Biology this week you can read about a new General Ecosystem Model for predicting the effects of human activities, a…
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Community Outside 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…
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Biology From Jellyfish GFPs to Plant MiniSOGs; a Microscopy Revolution.
I’m a firm believer that a picture tells a thousand words, and in biomedical sciences advances in microscopy can only add…
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Bioinformatics The First Individual Genome: One Is the Loneliest Number
When Craig Venter published the complete sequence of his genome in PLOS Biology in 2007, in some ways, it was old news…