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The PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize

Published September 26, 2019 Curated Collections

The PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize program launched in 2017 with the aim of recognizing some of the journal’s most outstanding Research Articles published the previous year in the following three prize categories: Breakthrough Advance/Innovation, Exemplary Methods/Software, and Public Impact. The winning Research Article in each category is selected by the PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize Committee from a pool of public nominations. With this collection we hope to bring together and further highlight our past winners.

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2019 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize Winners
2018 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize Winners
2017 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize Winners

2019 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize Winners

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Frasier et al

PLOS Biologue Announcing the Winners of the 2019 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize | PLOS Biologue
May 31, 2019 Heather Wood
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005890

PLOS Computational Biology Breakthrough Advance/Innovation A systematic atlas of chaperome deregulation topologies across the human cancer landscape
January 2, 2018 Ali Hadizadeh Esfahani, Angelina Sverchkova, Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Andreas A. Schuppert, Marc Brehme
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005941

PLOS Computational Biology Exemplary Methods/Software Sequence determinants of protein phase behavior from a coarse-grained model
January 24, 2018 Gregory L. Dignon, Wenwei Zheng, Young C. Kim, Robert B. Best, Jeetain Mittal
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005991

PLOS Computational Biology Public Impact PhysiCell: An open source physics-based cell simulator for 3-D multicellular systems
February 23, 2018 Ahmadreza Ghaffarizadeh, Randy Heiland, Samuel H. Friedman, Shannon M. Mumenthaler, Paul Macklin

2018 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize Winners

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Ghaffarizadeh et al

PLOS Biologue Winners of the 2018 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize
June 1, 2018 Sheryl Baptista
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005324

PLOS Computational Biology Breakthrough Advance/Innovation Accurate De Novo Prediction of Protein Contact Map by Ultra-Deep Learning Model
January 5, 2017 Sheng Wang, Siqi Sun, Zhen Li, Renyu Zhang, Jinbo Xu
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005595

PLOS Computational Biology Exemplary Methods/Software Unicycler: Resolving bacterial genome assemblies from short and long sequencing reads
June 8, 2017 Ryan R. Wick, Louise M. Judd, Claire L. Gorrie, Kathryn E. Holt
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005428

PLOS Computational Biology Public Impact Oncodomains: A protein domain-centric framework for analyzing rare variants in tumor samples
April 20, 2017 Thomas A. Peterson, Iris Ivy M. Gauran, Junyong Park, DoHwan Park, Maricel G. Kann

2017 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize Winners

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Tekin et al.

PLOS Biologue Announcing the 2017 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize Winners
November 30, 2017 Sheryl Baptista
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005130

PLOS Computational Biology Breakthrough Advance/Innovation SCOTTI: Efficient Reconstruction of Transmission within Outbreaks with the Structured Coalescent
September 28, 2016 Nicola De Maio, Chieh-Hsi Wu, Daniel J Wilson
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004957

PLOS Computational Biology Exemplary Methods/Software MEGAN Community Edition – Interactive Exploration and Analysis of Large-Scale Microbiome Sequencing Data
June 21, 2016 Daniel H. Huson, Sina Beier, Isabell Flade, Anna Górska, Mohamed El-Hadidi, Suparna Mitra, Hans-Joachim Ruscheweyh, Rewati Tappu
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004836

PLOS Computational Biology Public Impact Detecting Presymptomatic Infection Is Necessary to Forecast Major Epidemics in the Earliest Stages of Infectious Disease Outbreaks
April 5, 2016 Robin N. Thompson, Christopher A. Gilligan, Nik J. Cunniffe