A peer-reviewed open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science

www.ploscompbiol.org PLoS Computational Biology publishes research of exceptional significance that furthers our understanding of living systems at all scales from molecules and cells, to patient populations and ecosystems through the application of computational methods.
Run by an international Editorial Board led by Philip E. Bourne (University of California San Diego, USA). Featuring high-quality Research Articles, an outstanding Education section, Reviews, and our popular Ten Simple Rules and Roots of Bioinformatics series. Funder-compliant Published articles are immediately deposited in PubMed Central and subsequently cited in PubMed. Provides constructive peer review and rapid publication. Article-level metrics and web tools to facilitate community discourse through notes, comments, and ratings. Highlighted in news outlets and blogs from around the world.

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Topics include (but are not limited to): Molecular Biology Protein-Protein Interactions Computational Neuroscience Regulatory Networks Computational Immunology Sequence Analysis Protein Structure & Function Prediction Population Biology Cancer Genetics Microarray Data Analysis Gene Expression Synthetic Biology

PLoS Computational Biology is published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), a nonprofit organization committed to making the worlds scientific and medical literature a public resource. Everything we publish is freely available online throughout the world, for anyone to read, download, copy, distribute and use (with attribution). Barrier-free, open access, no permissions required.

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