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Rio+20: Why ‘sustainability’ must include ecology
One of the reasons we publish more accessible magazine-like articles in the front section of PLoS Biology is to raise awareness about issues that are important both to practicing scientists and to...
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Reach out and teach someone
If anyone thinks that the taxpayers who underwrite tens of billions of dollars of scientific research don’t care about getting access to that research, they’re not paying attention. A U.S. petition...
View ArticleCommunity responds to PLoS Biology article on teaching genetics
We’ve been following with interest the ongoing discussion on Twitter in response to Rosie Redfield’s recent Perspectives article in PLoS Biology published earlier this week, in which she argues that we...
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Fractaltastic Evolution
One of the iconic metaphors of evolution is that of the ‘tree of life’ – it is the image we all have for how species relate to each other in evolutionary time. In a perspective article last year, David...
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Darwin’s Tangled Bank in Verse
Editor’s note: PLOS Biology is delighted to post this ode to nature on behalf of PLOS cofounder Mike Eisen. The title page of the 1859 edition of Darwin’s Origin. My daughter has to memorize a poem for...
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Translational Bioinformatics: PLOS Computational Biology presents an...
PLOS Computational Biology is pleased to announce the launch of a new collection of Education articles: “Translational Bioinformatics”. This collection is presented as an online “book” which could...
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Let’s Make Those Book Chapters Open Too!
Following the launch of ‘Translational Bioinformatics’, a PLOS Computational Biology collection presented as an online book, in December 2012, PLOS Computational Biology Founding Editor-in-Chief Phil...
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Translational Bioinformatics: Call for papers
Following the successful launch of the PLOS Computational Biology collection ‘Translational Bioinformatics’, we are delighted to announce the continued development of this collection with a call for...
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What does peer review mean when applied to computer code?
A new experiment by the Mozilla Science Lab seeks to explore the interface between software engineers’ code review and the peer review of scientific articles that include code. At a time when the use...
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One Million Views
The Ten Simple Rules series of articles has been one of the unexpected surprises and pleasures arising from the community journal PLOS Computational Biology. That the collection has reached one million...
View ArticleBuilding a community resource: the ISCB Wikipedia Competition
Educating current and future generations of computational biologists is one of the main objectives of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and the society has come up with an...
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The Changing Face of Education at PLOS Computational Biology
In January 2006, Fran Lewitter, PLOS Computational Biology Founding Education Editor, announced the launch of a new Education column in the journal. This new column recognised the need for...
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Understanding allostery, constructing structural pathways and exploring a new...
Here’s our pick of the best PLOS Computational Biology content for February. The capacity of biological molecular data acquisition is growing faster than our ability to understand the relationships...
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Chromatin and Epigenetics: From Omics to Single Cells
As part of its mission to encourage engagement within the genetics community, PLOS Genetics is sponsoring a number of conferences and meetings this year. In order to raise awareness about these...
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This week in PLOS Biology
In PLOS Biology this week, you can read research articles about the regulation of glial cell activation, zinc regulation in E. coli and a new regulator of Wg/Wnt signalling. Also read articles from our...
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Measuring the success of an online bioinformatics resource
Like many other journals, PLOS Computational Biology aims to publish research that helps to further the field and develop the community that the journal serves. From time to time, however, we publish a...
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This Week in PLOS Biology
In PLOS Biology this week, you can read about the the next 10 years of microbiome research, low-cost antimicrobial screening as an educational tool, and a potential new diabetes drug. Transmission...
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This Week in PLOS Biology
In PLOS Biology this week, you can read about shrinking the gap between patients and researchers, cookie-cutting membrane perforators, the breakdown of a cozy relationship between flies and bugs, how...
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Anaesthesia Response, Controlling Cas9, and How to Use Github: the PLOS Comp...
Here are our highlights from the PLOS Computational Biology January issue: Brain Connectivity Dissociates Responsiveness from Drug Exposure during Propofol-Induced Transitions of Consciousness...
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Is the p-value pointless?
For the first time in its 177-year history, the American Statistical Association (ASA) has voiced its opinion and made specific recommendations for a statistical practice. The subject of their ire? The...
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