For the past 10 years the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Student Council has provided events and activities to help support and encourage young budding scientists. This article…
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Computer & Information Sciences Stories from the Road: ISCB Student Council Collection
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Computer & Information Sciences The Roots of Bioinformatics
This collection of essays from prominent workers in the field of bioinformatics relates how selected scientific, technological, economic, and even cultural threads came to influence the development of…
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Biology & Life Sciences RECOMB Regulatory Genomics and Systems Biology 2009
In a joint venture between PLOS and the conference program committee, this collection draws together papers from the 6th Annual RECOMB Satellite on Regulatory Genomics and the 5th Annual RECOMB…
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Computer & Information Sciences Conference Postcards
Conference Postcards are designed to vividly recount to those not at a conference what happened at the event that was scientifically noteworthy. Postcards aim to be a departure from routine conference…
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Computer & Information Sciences Proceedings of the Third International Barcode of Life Conference Mexico City
"DNA barcoding" was proposed formally in 2003 as a technique for species diagnosis and identification using short standardized gene regions. Early conferences focused on the degree to which…
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Computer & Information Sciences Biocurators
The number and scope of scientific databases has soared in recent years, creating a new profession, the biocurator. These "museum catalogers of the Internet age" face a continuous struggle…
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Computer & Information Sciences Bioinformatics: Starting Early
Bioinformatics is being introduced into the school curriculum earlier and earlier as the field matures. PLOS Computational Biology's Education section introduces a new collection, Bioinformatics…
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Computer & Information Sciences Editors’ Outlook
The PLOS Computational Biology Editors' Outlook collection provides diverse mini reviews from members of the Editorial Board on their research areas, and includes discussions of new and future…
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Biology & Life Sciences The DREAM Systems Biology Challenges
The Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (DREAM) grew as a community effort to catalyze discussion about the design, application, and assessment of systems biology models through…
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Computer & Information Sciences Focus Feature – Protein Functions
This Focus Feature led by Jacquelyn S. Fetrow and Patricia C. Babbitt focuses on understanding the different molecular functions that can exist within a protein superfamily and the features that…