It’s something you learn in high school – there are two basic approaches to cellular life – prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea) and…

As we have discussed in previous posts, PLOS Biology believes strongly that we are Open for a Reason; one of our key…

Have you ever watched “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers”? There are these seven brothers and, well you get the idea… But that…

You’re at a cheesy disco – it’s a large room, the lights are down, the music’s loud. But no one’s dancing. Because…

Editors are sometimes asked while out and about in the community, why it is that we attend conferences. Most folk presume we’re…

Recent advances in sequencing technology have brought us the complexity of microbial metagenomes from oceans, soils and guts. These massive datasets of…