STOP PRESS! “Scientists decode words from brain signals, fueling hopes for mind reading!” “Mind-reading device could become reality!” “Scientists make telepathy…
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Biology You Just Read my Mind…Read more
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Biology Why Do Scientists Ignore Female Genitalia?Read more
Humans have an odd attitude to genitalia. Indeed, more than 90% of you are reading this blog post merely because I put…
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Biology Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conference on Epigenetics, Chromatin & Transcription: Jin-Qiu ZhouRead more
As part of its mission to encourage engagement within the genetics community, PLOS Genetics is sponsoring a number of conferences and meetings this…
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Biology “Fish Fins and Fingers” Feeding FrenzyRead more
How did we first acquire the limbs that allowed us to crawl onto dry land? Could the fins of our fishy ancestors…
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Advocacy Naïve, Crazy Idealists Make GoodRead more
Ten years ago this month, PLOS ventured into the world of scientific publishing by launching its flagship journal, PLOS Biology. When Harold…
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Biology Our tenth anniversary: Let the celebrations begin!Read more
Yes, it’s our tenth anniversary this October: ten years ago, in October 2003, PLOS Biology published its very first issue. To…
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Bioinformatics Building a community resource: the ISCB Wikipedia CompetitionRead more
Educating current and future generations of computational biologists is one of the main objectives of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)…
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Biology Dude, Where’s My Data?Read more
Q: Where do you look for scientific data? A: In scientific papers, stoopid! Sadly, of course, anyone who’s read a…
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Bioinformatics What does peer review mean when applied to computer code?Read more
A new experiment by the Mozilla Science Lab seeks to explore the interface between software engineers’ code review and the peer review…
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Announcement Translational Bioinformatics: Call for papersRead more
Following the successful launch of the PLOS Computational Biology collection ‘Translational Bioinformatics’, we are delighted to announce the continued development of this…
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Biology It’s official – the animal study literature is biased… but whose fault is it?Read more
Testing a new drug on human subjects is expensive, risky and ethically complex, so the vast majority of potential treatments are…
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Bioinformatics Software collection: Open Access meets Open Source in PLOS Computational BiologyRead more
PLOS Computational Biology is proud to present its collection of Software articles. The Software section was launched in 2011, with the express…