PLOS Computational Biology

Orbit Image Analysis: An open-source whole slide image analysis tool

Publishing date: 2020-02-05 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: None authors: Manuel Stritt, Anna K. Stalder, Enrico Vezzali link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007313 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

NUFEB: A massively parallel simulator for individual-based modelling of microbial communities

Publishing date: 2020-01-15 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: None authors: Bowen Li, Denis Taniguchi, Jayathilake Pahala Gedara, Valentina Gogulancea, Rebeca Gonzalez-Cabaleiro, Jinju Chen, Andrew Stephen McGough, Irina Dana Ofiteru, Thomas P.

Ten quick tips for delivering programming lessons

Publishing date: 2020-01-15 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: Teaching well is a craft like any other, and success often comes from an accumulation of small improvements rather than from any single large change.

Telescope: Characterization of the retrotranscriptome by accurate estimation of transposable element expression

Publishing date: 2019-10-17 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: Almost half of the human genome is composed of transposable elements (TEs), but their contribution to the transcriptome, their cell-type specific expression patterns, and their role in disease remains poorly understood.

Ten simple rules for helping newcomers become contributors to open projects

Publishing date: 2019-09-26 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: Open source projects are nothing but a collaborative effort of community members. The constant involvement of maintainers, contributors, and users make open source software sustainable and keeps the community as a whole going.

Open collaborative writing with Manubot

Publishing date: 2019-08-16 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: Traditionally, scholarly manuscripts have been written in private by a predefined team of collaborators. But now the internet enables realtime open science, where project communication occurs online in a public venue and anyone is able to contribute.

Stytra: An open-source, integrated system for stimulation, tracking and closed-loop behavioral experiments

Publishing date: 2019-05-23 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: This paper presents Stytra, a flexible, open-source software package, written in Python and designed to cover all the general requirements involved in larval zebrafish behavioral experiments.

ReaDDy 2: Fast and flexible software framework for interacting-particle reaction dynamics

Publishing date: 2019-04-11 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: Interacting-particle reaction dynamics (iPRD) combines the simulation of dynamical trajectories of interacting particles as in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with reaction kinetics, in which particles appear, disappear, or change their type and interactions based on a set of reaction rules.

Apollo: Democratizing genome annotation

Publishing date: 2019-02-27 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: Genome annotation is the process of identifying the location and function of a genome’s encoded features. Improving the biological accuracy of annotation is a complex and iterative process requiring researchers to review and incorporate multiple sources of information such as transcriptome alignments, predictive models based on sequence profiles, and comparisons to features found in related organisms.

BioJava 5: A community driven open-source bioinformatics library

Publishing date: 2019-02-27 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: Channel Editor Summary: BioJava is an open source project which provides a Java framework for processing biological data. The project offers analytical and statistical routines, parsers for common file formats, reference implementations of popular algorithms, and allows the manipulation of sequences and 3D structures.