Here is a selection of PLOS Computational Biology highlights for June. “Minimization of opportunity costs” is a commonly used phrase within economics…
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Computational biology Lessons from the fruit fly, spatial transmission of influenza and the mechanism of tissue-specific hereditary diseases: The PLOS Comp Biol June issue
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Computational biology Stories from the road: Trials and tribulations of the ISCB Student Council
The Student Council for the International Society for Computational Biology was established in 2004 to promote the development of computational biology among…
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Announcement Meet the “PLOSSE” at ISMB 2014
Heading to the ISCB’s annual conference, ISMB 2014, July 11– 15, in Boston this year? Swing by Booth 409 and say hello…
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Announcement How Will We Feed the World?
PLOS has just launched a new Collection, “The Promise of Plant Translational Research”. Here’s why we did it, and what we hope…
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Bioinformatics Detecting cancer-causing genes, computing how to beat jetlag and a review of research into decision-making: The PLOS Comp Biol April issue
Here is our selection of PLOS Computational Biology highlights for April. Computational prediction of cancer-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from SNP datasets…
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Bioinformatics The dynamical relationship of brain structure and function, environmental factors affecting autism and a budgie’s flight path: the PLOS Comp Biol March issue
Here is our selection of highlights published in PLOS Computational Biology for March. The relationship between brain structure and function is a…
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Announcement The Pick of RECOMB 2014
Keen bioinformaticians will soon be on their way to the RECOMB 2014 conference, this year held in Pittsburgh, USA, April 2nd -5th…
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Biology Understanding allostery, constructing structural pathways and exploring a new trend in data integration: the PLOS Comp Biol February issue
Here’s our pick of the best PLOS Computational Biology content for February. The capacity of biological molecular data acquisition is growing faster…
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Bioinformatics Reviewing software and code: an update
On June 14th 2013 Mozilla Science Lab announced their collaboration with PLOS Computational Biology. The collaboration was a trial series of software…
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Announcement The Changing Face of Education at PLOS Computational Biology
In January 2006, Fran Lewitter, PLOS Computational Biology Founding Education Editor, announced the launch of a new Education column in the journal. This…
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Biology Reconstructing gene regulatory networks, dreading future pain and the About My Lab collection: the PLOS Comp Biol November issue
Here is our selection PLOS Computational Biology highlights for November. The study of gene regulatory networks is essential to understanding how diseases…
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Bioinformatics Controlling medically-induced comas, deciding not to decide, and a note from the Editor-in-Chief: the PLOS Comp Biol October issue
Here’s our pick of the best PLOS Computational Biology content for October. In a step towards improving the process of sedation, Maryam…