A new experiment by the Mozilla Science Lab seeks to explore the interface between software engineers’ code review and the peer review…
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Bioinformatics What does peer review mean when applied to computer code?
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Announcement 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…
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Bioinformatics Let’s Make Those Book Chapters Open Too!
Following the launch of ‘Translational Bioinformatics’, a PLOS Computational Biology collection presented as an online book, in December 2012, PLOS Computational Biology…
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Bioinformatics Translational Bioinformatics: PLOS Computational Biology presents an educational resource for an emerging field
PLOS Computational Biology is pleased to announce the launch of a new collection of Education articles: “Translational Bioinformatics”. This collection is presented…
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Biology Darwin’s Tangled Bank in Verse
Editor’s note: PLOS Biology is delighted to post this ode to nature on behalf of PLOS cofounder Mike Eisen. My daughter has…
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Bioinformatics Fractaltastic Evolution
One of the iconic metaphors of evolution is that of the ‘tree of life’ – it is the image we all have…
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Debate Community responds to PLoS Biology article on teaching genetics
We’ve been following with interest the ongoing discussion on Twitter in response to Rosie Redfield’s recent Perspectives article in PLoS Biology published…
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Advocacy Reach out and teach someone
If anyone thinks that the taxpayers who underwrite tens of billions of dollars of scientific research don’t care about getting access to…
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Ecology Rio+20: Why ‘sustainability’ must include ecology
One of the reasons we publish more accessible magazine-like articles in the front section of PLoS Biology is to raise awareness…