Subject Area: Computer & Information Sciences

PLOS Computational Biology is home to research on living systems at all scales—from molecules and cells, to patient populations and ecosystems—through the application of computational…

Digital health technologies bring together engineers, computer scientists, behavioral scientists, public health researchers, and clinicians to design technological solutions for patient care and…

Stories have the power to shape our identities and worldviews. They can be factual or fictional, text-based or visual and can take many forms—from novels and non-fiction to conspiracy theories…

Recognizing the need for training and education in bioinformatics and computational biology specifically targeted to biologists, PLOS Computational Biology launched its Education section in January…

Quantum computation and simulation have seen enormous progress in the past few years. Leaps in number and quality of experimentally available qubits, innovations in quantum software and an increasing…

The PLOS Computational Biology Software Section was launched in 2011 and has been steadily gathering momentum since its beginnings. Handled by our Software Editors, Software articles highlight and…

The PLOS Computational Biology Methods Section was launched in 2013 and has given computational method development a dedicated space in the journal. Handled by our Methods Editors, Methods…

This Collection aims to increase the coverage of genetics-related topics in Wikipedia by rewarding authors with a citable, PubMed-indexed static version of the living document on Wikipedia. All Topic…

The 14th Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference 2019 (GLBIO) took place at the University of Wisconsin at Madison from May 19th to 22nd. The conference was organized by the Great Lakes Bioinformatics…

This series of perspective articles from computational biologists in a variety of countries, offers their personal viewpoint on the history, current status, and future of computational biology in…