Written by Ruth Nussinov and Amarda Shehu “Everything that living things do can be understood in terms of the jiggling and…
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Biology Media response: forecasting diseases using Wikipedia
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Biology CHARMMing molecular simulations, midge swarms, and swimming C. elegans: the PLOS Computational Biology July 2014 Issue
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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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