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Dealing with data
PLoS Biology aspires to drive openness in data use and re-use, not just open access to the literature. We are pleased to announce a partnership with Dryad that helps our authors make their data...
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Openly Streamlining Peer Review
We are delighted to host our first guest post on Biologue by James Rosindell and William D. Pearse from Silwood Park, Imperial College London. They share their view on how we might improve peer...
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Software collection: Open Access meets Open Source in PLOS Computational Biology
PLOS Computational Biology is proud to present its collection of Software articles. The Software section was launched in 2011, with the express purpose of fostering the creation of open source software...
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It’s official – the animal study literature is biased… but whose fault is it?
Testing a new drug on human subjects is expensive, risky and ethically complex, so the vast majority of potential treatments are first tried out on non-human animals. Unfortunately similar issues...
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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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Dude, Where’s My Data?
Q: Where do you look for scientific data? A: In scientific papers, stoopid! Sadly, of course, anyone who’s read a scientific paper will know that this isn’t true. Papers actually contain very...
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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Our tenth anniversary: Let the celebrations begin!
Yes, it’s our tenth anniversary this October: ten years ago, in October 2003, PLOS Biology published its very first issue. To celebrate this landmark moment in PLOS Biology’s history, we will be...
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Naïve, Crazy Idealists Make Good
Ten years ago this month, PLOS ventured into the world of scientific publishing by launching its flagship journal, PLOS Biology. When Harold Varmus, Pat Brown, and Michael Eisen founded PLOS in 2000,...
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“Fish Fins and Fingers” Feeding Frenzy
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001773 How did we first acquire the limbs that allowed us to crawl onto dry land? Could the fins of our fishy ancestors hold previously undiscovered clues? A recent research...
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Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conference on Epigenetics, Chromatin & Transcription:...
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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Why Do Scientists Ignore Female Genitalia?
Credit: Roli Roberts, adapted from Rudolph Zallinger. Humans have an odd attitude to genitalia. Indeed, more than 90% of you are reading this blog post merely because I put the word in the title. A new...
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You Just Read my Mind…
STOP PRESS! “Scientists decode words from brain signals, fueling hopes for mind reading!” “Mind-reading device could become reality!” “Scientists make telepathy breakthrough!” “Secrets of the inner...
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Introducing a New Look for the Journal Homepages
Today sees the launch of our re-vamped homepages for PLOS Biology, PLOS Genetics and PLOS Computational Biology. They’ve been designed to give easy access to all recently published work, and to...
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How Much of Your Genome Is Functional?
On the 24th of July, 2014 PLOS Genetics published an article entitled: “8.2% of the Human Genome Is Constrained: Variation in Rates of Turnover across Functional Element Classes in the Human Lineage”....
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This week in PLOS Biology
In PLOS Biology this week, you can read about the sequence of the centipede genome, alternative publication metrics, how we pay attention to our sense of touch, and the information bandwidth of human...
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Publishing to Keep up with Ebola
As you read this, thread-like viruses less than one micron in length are spreading through human populations in West Africa, taking lives, wrecking communities and generally creating havoc in the...
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Starch, Oil, Water and Arsenic: New Plant Translational Research
by Christina Kary PLOS launched a Collection last year, “The Promise of Plant Translational Research”. Here’s an update on how it’s going, and where we hope to go from here. In my former life as...
View ArticleAny Questions about our Data Policy?
by PLOS Biology, PLOS Genetics and PLOS Computational Biology Publication is the end of one journey, but the beginning of another (longer) one, where the ideas and the underlying data that shaped them...
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