Cancer Drivers, Protein Complex Prediction, and Crawling and Gliding Cells: the PLOS Comp Biol October Issue

crawler-690x320Cancer Drivers, Protein Complex Prediction, and Crawling and Gliding Cells: the PLOS Comp Biol October Issue   post-info Here are our highlights from October’s PLOS Computational Biology: A Pan-Cancer Catalogue of Cancer Driver Protein Interaction

The PLOS Comp Biol Macromolecular Structure and Dynamics Collection

Collection-image-long-for-collection-page-690x320Written by Ruth Nussinov and Amarda Shehu “Everything that living things do can be understood in terms of the jiggling and wiggling of atoms.” – Richard Feynman in the seminal Feynman Lectures on Physics, 1963.

2014-2015 PLOS Progress Update Available

Each year PLOS releases a Progress Update, an annual overview of innovations, activities and journal highlights that provide insight into how the organization is moving scientific communication and discovery forward. This year topics include: • Transparent and Continual Assessment Advances … Continue reading »

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Cell Volume, Self-Organisation, and Escher: the PLOS Comp Biol August Issue

Here are our highlights from August’s PLOS Computational Biology   The Role of Cell Volume in the Dynamics of Seizure, Spreading Depression, and Anoxic Depolarization Cell volume changes are ubiquitous in normal and pathological activity of the brain, yet we know … Continue reading »

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Microbiome Evolution, Molecular Recognition and Interaction Webs: the PLOS Comp Biol July Issue

Here are our highlights from July’s PLOS Computational Biology   Neutral Models of Microbiome Evolution There has been an explosion of research on host-associated microbial communities (i.e.,microbiomes) and how they correlate with host health, disease, phenotype, physiology and ecology. However, few … Continue reading »

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PLOS Computational Biology Community Going All Out to Cover #ISMB15 with the ISCB Student Council

Calling All Bloggers for ISMB/ECCB 2015 ISMB/ECCB 2015 in Dublin, Ireland, is fast approaching and we invite you to be involved in the live coverage of the event. If you can’t make it to Dublin, follow our live collaborative blog … Continue reading »

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Spinal Cord Injury, Gut Microbiome, and White-Plague Coral Disease: the PLOS Comp Biol June Issue

Here are some highlights from June’s PLOS Computational Biology   Inference of Network Dynamics and Metabolic Interactions in the Gut Microbiome The community of bacteria that live in our intestines (called the “gut microbiome”) is important to normal intestinal function, … Continue reading »

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PLOS Computational Biology’s 10th Anniversary

This post marks a very important date for PLOS Computational Biology and highlights how we are celebrating. Ten years ago, on June 24th 2005, the inaugural issue of PLOS Computational Biology was published, making this our 10th anniversary! To mark … Continue reading »

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Convex Clustering and Synaptic Restructuring: the PLOS CB May Issue

Here are some highlights from May’s PLOS Computational Biology   Convex Clustering: An Attractive Alternative to Hierarchical Clustering The recently developed method of convex clustering preserves the visual appeal of hierarchical clustering while ameliorating its propensity to make false inferences … Continue reading »

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How it Works: the PLOS Computational Biology April Issue

Here are some highlights from April’s PLOS Computational Biology   How We Hear Time within Sound How does our auditory system represent time within a sound? Daniel Bendor investigates how temporal acoustic patterns can be represented by neural activity within … Continue reading »

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