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Biology Speciation: a Few Big Genes or Many Little Ones?Read more
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post Predicting drug targets; modelling heart mitochondria; assessing drug efficacy and safety; problems with predicting enhancer-promoter pairs.Read more
Check out our Editors-in-Chief’s selection of papers from the December issue of PLOS Computational Biology. Predicting protein targets for drug-like compounds using transcriptomics…
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Announcement The 2019 PLOS Computational Biology T-shirt Competition is now open!Read more
What do you want to see on the front of this year’s PLOS Computational Biology t-shirt? Enter our t-shirt competition by…
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Biology The XV Collection: Ethical Oversights in Ethical Oversight of Animal ResearchRead more
By Jonathan Kimmelman Sometimes the life sciences work fantastically, as when insights into fundamental processes are transformed into life-saving treatments…
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Community Small sequence motifs, the cultural brain, atlases of cognition, pupil dilation, and the Benchmarking CollectionRead more
Check out our Editors-in-Chief’s selection of papers from the November issue of PLOS Computational Biology with a special look our new Benchmarking collection. Motif-Aware…
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Announcement PLOS Computational Biology Benchmarking section call for papersRead more
PLOS Computational Biology is pleased to announce that we’re holding a call for papers focusing on Benchmarking in computational biology. The section…
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Biotechnology He Jiankui’s Moral MessRead more
by Arthur Caplan A scientist named He Jiankui at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China, shocked…
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Biology The XV Collection: A Spotlight on SpottinessRead more
By Sally Lowell Let’s start with a remarkable fact. Cells can, under the right conditions, organise themselves into patterns without any…
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Cell biology Predicting Gene Enhancers; Optimising Vaccine Dose and Modelling Wound HealingRead more
Check out our Editors-in-Chief’s selection of papers from the October issue of PLOS Computational Biology. Prediction of gene regulatory enhancers across species reveals…
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post Modelling Actomyosin, KRAS Mutants and Hot Spring Microbial Interactions, and Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease Trajectories and Seasonal Influenza OutbreaksRead more
Check out our Editors-in-Chief’s selection of papers from the [September] issue of PLOS Computational Biology. Emergent mechanics of actomyosin drive punctuated contractions and shape…
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Biology The XV Collection: Auxin Transport — more a River Delta than a StreamRead more
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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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…