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By Sally Lowell Let’s start with a remarkable fact. Cells can, under the right conditions, organise themselves into patterns without any outside instruction. Indeed, it is the ability of cells to self-organise that makes
Have you ever wished that Wikipedia had a better article on your favourite subject? Or felt that more credit should be given to experts who contribute to this most indispensable of modern information sources? To
We are pleased to invite you to attend a PLOS Computational Biology Symposium at the National Institutes of Health. The details of the event are as follows: “Computational Biology: Past, Present, and Future” Friday, 16th
Written 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,
Here are our highlights from January’s PLOS Computational Biology Predicting Anticancer Drug Activity There is increasing evidence that altering different functional regions within the same protein can lead to dramatically distinct phenotypes. By focusing on
Keen bioinformaticians will soon be on their way to the RECOMB 2014 conference, this year held in Pittsburgh, USA, April 2nd -5th. At PLOS Computational Biology we are delighted to have published five research articles
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 Bourne discusses how open access can boost the availability and