In this ‘behind the paper’ post, Derek Barisas discusses how analyzing some old data shaped a hypothesis and led them to find…
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Behind the paper Behind the paper: Tumors produce factors that promote extramedullary hematopoiesisRead more
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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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Biology Exploiting protein domain co-occurrence, switching the epithelial-mesenchymal transition, optimising glioblastoma treatment, and modelling the metabolism of the malaria parasiteRead more
Check out our Editors-in-Chief’s selection of papers from the January issue of PLOS Computational Biology. Improving pairwise comparison of protein…
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Biology Biggest Hits – PLOS Biology in the Media in 2017Read more
We’re taking a look back at the articles that have made a splash in the last 12 months, both in terms…
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Biology PLOS Biology Explores Gaps between Environmental Health Science and PolicyRead more
Donald Trump had been president less than a week when he vowed to slash regulations by 75 percent. Within two weeks of…
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Biology Urban human activity revealed by phone use, how fish flock together, and epimutations hit same genes as mutations in cancerRead more
Check out our highlights from the PLOS Computational Biology November issue: Tracking urban human activity from mobile phone calling patterns For humans…
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Blog A neuron’s eye view, recovering from intestinal cleanout, and models of cancer cell line metabolismRead more
Check out our highlights from the PLOS Computational Biology August issue: A systems approach reveals distinct metabolic strategies among the NCI-60…
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Cancer A Novel Prostate Cancer Risk Variant in African Americans, Dynamics of the Human Gut Microbiome, and Geno-Pheno Maps for Digital Organisms: the PLOS Comp Biol February IssueRead more
Check out our highlights from the PLOS Computational Biology February issue: ALKBH7 variant related to prostate cancer exhibits altered substrate binding…
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Cancer Network Analysis of Cancer, Studying Allostery by NMR, and Life in the Vogel Lab: the PLOS Comp Biol March IssueRead more
Check out our highlights from the PLOS Computational Biology March issue: Understanding Genotype-Phenotype Effects in Cancer via Network Approaches Cancer is now…
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Biology PLOS Biology is Experimental BiologyRead more
The Experimental Biology conference is underway in San Diego! PLOS is well represented at the conference, with editors and staff manning booth…
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Biology PLOS Biology ICYMI: Festive FiveRead more
For many people, the recent festive period was more about spending time with family, eating too much and being generally merry…
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Cancer Quantifying Transcript Isoforms, Druggable Interactome Nodes, and ShortBRED for Metagenome Mapping: the PLOS Comp Biol December IssueRead more
Here are some of our highlights from the last PLOS CB issue of 2015.. Network-Based Isoform Quantification with RNA-Seq Data New sequencing technologies…