I never thought I had all that much in common with the glamorous film star Angelina Jolie – until May of this…
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Debate A Dispatch from the Genetic FrontierRead more
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Announcement PLOS Genetics partners with DryadRead more
PLOS Genetics is pleased to announce its new partnership with Dryad, an Open Access repository for data underlying peer-reviewed articles. Following PLOS…
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Biology Dude, Where’s My Data?Read more
Q: Where do you look for scientific data? A: In scientific papers, stoopid! Sadly, of course, anyone who’s read a…
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post A Virus Emerges – with a Human Helping HandRead more
Where do viruses come from? Like us, they are products of their genomes, and like our genomes, viral genomes are palimpsests of…
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Announcement Biologue welcomes PLOS Genetics and PLOS Comp BiolRead more
You may have noticed from our new banner above that PLOS Biologue has recently welcomed PLOS Genetics and PLOS Computational Biology into…
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Biology Yet another thing for which to blame/thank your mother – your microbesRead more
Wash your hands all the time. Sterilize your kitchen counters. Take antibiotics whenever you have a cough or an itchy throat. Avoid dirt and pets…
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Announcement One Million ViewsRead more
The Ten Simple Rules series of articles has been one of the unexpected surprises and pleasures arising from the community journal PLOS Computational Biology. That the collection…
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Bioinformatics What does peer review mean when applied to computer code?Read more
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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Announcement Translational Bioinformatics: Call for papersRead more
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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Biology It’s official – the animal study literature is biased… but whose fault is it?Read more
Testing a new drug on human subjects is expensive, risky and ethically complex, so the vast majority of potential treatments are…
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Biology Mycobacteria get all the advantages of sex with none of the downsideRead more
Despite the sales pitch, sex is frankly a bit of a hassle, isn’t it? The champagne, the flowers, the desultory conversations…
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Bioinformatics Visit PLOS at ISMB/ECCB 2013, Berlin, Germany, July 21-23Read more
PLOS is pleased to be attending the ISMB/ECCB 2013 International Society for Computational Biology meeting held this year in Berlin, Germany, July…