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PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOINFORMATICS OVERVIEW
JUNE 2014 In 2013-2014 PLOS Computational Biology saw a 2% increase in submissions since the previous year, with an average of 142 research articles submitted per month. As well as publishing high-quality research, PLOS Computational Biology enables members of the community to contribute to scientific communication through the creation of resources for current and future generations of computational biologists.
A new collection, "About My Lab", was launched in November with the aim of sharing knowledge about lab organization and scientific management. Each Perspective article represents an interview with a Principal Investigator, who shares his or her experience of running a lab by discussing selected topics in an informal and personal style. The collection launched with two "About My Lab" Perspectives, an Editorial by collection editor Theodore Alexandrov and Founding Editor-in-Chief Phil Bourne (2), and an article featuring interviews with young PIs conducted at ISMB 2013 (3). Another "About My Lab" Perspective was published in March, and new articles will be added to the collection over time. Our ever-popular "Ten Simple Rules" series of Editorials on professional development, led by Founding Editor-in-Chief Phil Bourne since 2005, reached the milestone of one million page views at the end of July. Dr Bourne describes this series as "one of the unexpected surprises and pleasures arising from the community journal PLOS Computational Biology" and, in a post on PLOS Biologue, looks back over the history of Ten Simple Rules: http://bit.ly/1kxHhav. The journal regularly publishes new Ten Simple Rules articles, but only in cases where there is something truly new to say. In October the first-ever PLOS Computational Biology Editor Summit was held at George Washington University, Washington DC, with 26 editors in attendance. The summit aimed to strengthen relations between editors from a diverse range of fields within computational biology and to identify journal strategy and priorities for the coming year. The main part of the meeting consisted of discussions on journal policy, processes and direction, and editors presenting their own research.
PLOS Computational Biology would like to thank the many members of the community who made contributions to the journal during the period 2013-2014. Over the past twelve months we have been pleased to welcome 15 new Associate Editors to the editorial board. Jason Papin, Olaf Sporns and Sebastian Bonhoeffer have been promoted to Deputy Editors-in-Chief. Joern Diedrichsen, Christophe Fraser, Jason Haugh, Erik van Nimwegen, Rachel Brem and Mark Alber have become Deputy Editors. We welcomed Francis Ouellette and Joanne Fox as Education Editors, as Fran Lewitter stepped down after seven years running the PLOS Computational Biology Education section. PLOS Computational Biology is a "Community Journal"; we value your ideas and comments, so please don't hesitate to come and visit us at Booth 409 at ISMB or via ploscompbiol@plos.org at any time. Examples of Highly Downloaded Articles in 2013
1. The Regional Student Group Program of the ISCB Student Council: Stories from the Road . Geoff Macintyre, Magali Michaut, Thomas Abeel. 9, s.l. : PLoS Comput Biol, 2013, Vol. 9. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003241. 2. Learning How to Run a Lab: Interviews with Principal Investigators . Theodore Alexandrov, Philip E Bourne. 11, s.l. : PLoS Comput Biol, 2013, Vol. 9. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003349. 3. The Young PI Buzz: Learning from the Organizers of the Junior Principal Investigator Meeting at ISMB-ECCB 2013 . Jeroen de Ridder, Yana Bromberg, Magali Michaut, Venkata P Satagopam, Manuel Corpas, Geoff Macintyre, Theodore Alexandrov. 11, s.l. : PLoS Comput Biol, 2013, Vol. 9. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003350.  |
