PLOS Computational Biology

Academic journal

PLOS Computational BiologyDiscipline| computational biology, bioinformatics

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Language| English
Edited by| Feilim Mac Gabhann, and Virginia Pitzer
Publication details
History| 2005–present
Publisher|

Public Library of Science

Frequency| Monthly

Open access

| Yes
License| Creative Commons Attribution License

Impact factor

| 3.6 (2024)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt) * Bluebook (alt)
NLM (alt) * MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4| PLOS Comput. Biol.
Indexing
CODEN (alt * alt2) * JSTOR (alt) * LCCN (alt)
MIAR * NLM (alt) * Scopus * W&L
CODEN| PCBLBG
ISSN| 1553-734X (print)
1553-7358 (web)

LCCN| 2004216490
OCLC no.| 57176662
Links

* Journal homepage
* Online access
* Online archive

PLOS Computational Biology is a monthly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering computational biology. It was established in 2005 by the Public Library of Science in association with the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in the same format as the previously established PLOS Biology and PLOS Medicine. The founding editor-in-chief was Philip Bourne and the current ones are Feilim Mac Gabhann and Jason Papin.[1]

## Format

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The journal publishes both original research and review articles. All articles are open access and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.[2]

Since its inception, the journal has published the Ten Simple Rules series of practical guides,[3][4][5] which has subsequently become one of the journal's most read article series.[6]

The Ten Simple Rules series then led to the Quick Tips collection, whose articles contain recommendations on computational practices and methods,[7][8] such as dimensionality reduction[9] for example.

In 2012, it launched the Topic Page review format, which dual-publishes peer-reviewed articles both in the journal and on Wikipedia.[10][11] It was the first publication of its kind to publish in this way.[12][13]

## See also

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* PLOS
* PLOS Biology
* BMC Bioinformatics

## References

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1. ^ Mac Gabhann F, Papin J. "Editors-in-Chief". journals.plos.org. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
2. ^ "PLOS Computational Biology: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal". journals.plos.org. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
3. ^ Bourne PE (August 2006). "One year of PLoS Computational Biology". PLOS Computational Biology. 2 (8): e111. Bibcode:2006PLSCB...2..111B. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020111. PMC 1553486. PMID 17523253.
4. ^ "Ten Simple Rules". PLOS.
5. ^ PLOS Computational Biology – List of ten simple rules articles
6. ^ Bourne PE, Lewitter F, Markel S, Papin JA (December 2018). "One thousand simple rules". PLOS Computational Biology. 14 (12): e1006670. Bibcode:2018PLSCB..14E6670B. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006670. PMC 6301566. PMID 30571692.
7. ^ Bourne PE, Lewitter F, Markel S, Papin JA (December 2018). "One thousand simple rules". PLOS Computational Biology. 14 (12): e1006670. Bibcode:2018PLSCB..14E6670B. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006670. PMC 6301566. PMID 30571692.
8. ^ PLOS Computational Biology – List of quick tips articles
9. ^ Nguyen, Lan Huong; Holmes, Susan (20 June 2019). "Ten quick tips for effective dimensionality reduction". PLOS Computational Biology. 15 (6): e1006907. Bibcode:2019PLSCB..15E6907N. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006907. eISSN 1553-7358. PMC 6586259. PMID 31220072.
10. ^ Wodak SJ, Mietchen D, Collings AM, Russell RB, Bourne PE (2012-03-29). "Topic pages: PLoS Computational Biology meets Wikipedia". PLOS Computational Biology. 8 (3): e1002446. Bibcode:2012PLSCB...8E2446W. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002446. PMC 3315447. PMID 22479174.
11. ^ "PLOS Collections: Topic Pages". PLOS Computational Biology. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
12. ^ Shafee T, Heilman J, Masukume G, Häggström M (29 October 2016). "Wikipedia's medical content: A new era of collaboration". blog.wikimedia.org. Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
13. ^ Shafee T (2017). "Wikipedia-integrated publishing: a comparison of successful models". Health Inform. 26 (2). doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.27470.77129. Archived from the original on 2019-07-23. Retrieved 2022-09-20.

## External links

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* Official website
* PLOS Computational Biology - List of quick tips articles
* PLOS Computational Biology - List of ten simple rules articles

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