By Mark Estelle The sessile lifestyle of plants is enabled by remarkable developmental plasticity. Plant form is affected by a wide…
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Biology The XV Collection: Auxin Transport — more a River Delta than a StreamRead more
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Announcement Failures: Key to Success in ScienceRead more
This post was collaboratively written by PLOS staff (Ines Alvarez-Garcia, Phil Mills, Leonie Mueck and Iratxe Puebla) Note: Join us Monday, October…
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Announcement The GIGA Collection: Invertebrates Galore!Read more
by Gert Wörheide Much of the world’s biodiversity to have evolved over the last 600+ million years of the Earth’s…
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Cell biology Learning to ignore, rare phenotype transitions, allostery in networks, and processing raw single-cell data.Read more
Irrelevance by inhibition: Learning, computation, and implications for schizophrenia Individuals with schizophrenia have difficulty ignoring ideas and experiences that most people…
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Biology The XV Collection: Living l’AVIDA loca — origins of multicellularityRead more
by Harmit Malik Even before John Maynard Smith formalized the term, evolutionary biologists have been fascinated by major evolutionary transitions…
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Advocacy Post Removed by PLOSRead more
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Cell biology Crowdsourcing plant phenomic data, bacterial niche construction abilities, protocell evolution, microRNA target predictionRead more
Check out our Editors-in-Chief’s selection of papers from the July issue of PLOS Computational Biology. Crowdsourcing image analysis for plant phenomics to generate ground truth…
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Biology The XV Collection: Perverse Outcomes of Novel TherapiesRead more
by Andrew Read Yale professor Steve Stearns once warned that the transition from Young Turk to Old Turkey happens quickly…
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Biology PLOS Biology in the media – JulyRead more
The year is flying past, and July has been another month with several of our papers making the news. This month…
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Biology The XV Collection: Anatomy of a Protein Kinase Spine and How to Break ItRead more
by Ann Stock The post-translational addition of phosphate groups to serine, threonine and tyrosine residues is a fundamental strategy for…
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Computational biology Cleaning up draft genomes, identifying allosteric sites, learning in visual cortexRead more
Check out our Editors-in-Chief’s selection of papers from the June issue of PLOS Computational Biology. Reversing allosteric communication: From detecting allosteric sites to inducing…
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Community PLOS Computational Biology T-Shirt Design Winner AnnouncedRead more
PLOS Computational Biology is pleased to announce the winner of our 2018 t-shirt competition! This year’s t-shirt design was entered by…