PLoS Computational Biology Editorial Board
Founding Editors
- Philip E. Bourne, Editor-in-Chief
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA - Steven E. Brenner
- University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA - Michael Eisen
- University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
- Ruth Nussinov
- National Cancer Institute and Tel Aviv University
Frederick, MD, USA and Tel Aviv, Israel
Deputy Editors
- Patricia Babbitt
- University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA - Joel Bader
- Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA - Sebastian Bonhoeffer
- ETH Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland - Lyle J. Graham
- Université Paris Descartes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Paris, France - Konrad Kording
- Northwestern University
Chicago, IL, USA - Douglas Lauffenburger
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA - Uwe Ohler
- Duke University
Durham, NC, USA - Nathan Price
- Institute for Systems Biology
Seattle, WA, USA - Burkhard Rost
- Columbia University
New York, NY, USA - Olaf Sporns
- Indiana University
Bloomington, IL, USA - Wyeth Wasserman
- University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada - Weixiong Zhang
- Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO, USA
Software Editors
- Robert Gentleman
- Genentech
South San Francisco, CA, USA - Hilmar Lapp
- National Evolutionary Synthesis Center
Durham, NC, USA - Robert F. Murphy
- Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, USA - Andreas Prlić
- University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA
Reviews Editors
- Ernest Fraenkel
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA - Johanna McEntyre
- European Bioinformatics Institute
Hinxton, UK
Education Editor
- Fran Lewitter
- Whitehead Institute
Cambridge, MA, USA
ISCB Editor
- Olga Troyanskaya
- Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA
Topic Pages Editors
- Daniel Mietchen
- EvoMRI Communications
Jena, Germany - Shoshana Wodak
- University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Associate Editors
- Mark Alber
- University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN, USA
Multi-scale modeling, computational biophysics, mathematical biology - Russ Altman
- Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
Pharmacogenomics, RNA structure and dynamics, protein function prediction from structure,
natural language processing of biomedical text - Rustom Antia
- Emory University
Atlanta, GA, USA
Theoretical immunology, pathogen-host disease models - Becca Asquith
- Imperial College London
London, UK
Theoretical immunology - Anand Asthagiri
- Northeastern University
Boston, MA, USA
Signaling networks, cell adhesion, multicellular patterning, morphogenesis - Daniel A. Beard
- The Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI, USA
Physiology, metabolism, biochemical thermodynamics, biophysical chemistry, mass transport - Niko Beerenwinkel
- ETH Zürich
Basel, Switzerland
Evolutionary dynamics, cancer genomics, personalized medicine - Tim Behrens
- John Radcliffe Hospital
Oxford, UK
Computational neuroscience, systems neuroscience, connectional neuroanatomy,
computational models of behavior - Carl T. Bergstrom
- University of Washington
Santa Fe Institute
Seattle, WA, USA and Santa Fe, NM, USA
Evolutionary biology, game theory, bibliometrics, mathematical biology, information theory,
social evolution, disease evolution - Richard Bonneau
- New York University
New York, NY, USA
Protein structure prediction and design, regulatory network inference, learning and
modeling regulatory and signaling dynamics, protein structure-function - Rachel Brem
- University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
Genetic mapping of quantitative traits, genetic variation in and evolution of regulatory networks,
and transcriptome analysis - James Briggs
- University of Houston
Houston, TX, USA
Computational structural biology, computer aided drug design - Atul Butte
- Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
Clinical whole genome sequencing and analysis, computational pharmacology, public data,
microarray data analysis - Kevin Bretonnel Cohen
- University of Colorado School of Medicine Denver
Aurora, CO, USA
Text mining, natural language processing, BioNLP, NLP - Markus W. Covert
- Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
Systems biology, live cell imaging, large-scale cellular network modeling, cell-cell interactions - Edmund J. Crampin
- The University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
Computational cell physiology, systems biology - Rob J. de Boer
- Utrecht University
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Theoretical Immunology - Jörn Diedrichsen
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
London, UK
Computational models of motor control and learning, cerebellar function, neuroimaging - Roland Dunbrack
- Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Structural bioinformatics, protein structure prediction, cancer biology - Jonathan Eisen
- University of California, Davis
Davis, CA, USA
DNA repair, extremophiles, microbial evolution, genome evolution, phylogenetics - Arne Elofsson
- Stockholm University
Stockholm, Sweden
Protein structure prediction, model quality assessments, membrane protein bioinformatics,
protein domain evolution, repeating protein domains, protein-protein interactions - Neil M. Ferguson
- Imperial College London
London, UK
Epidemiology, epidemic modeling, population biology, infectious diseases - Christophe Fraser
- Imperial College London
London, UK
Infectious disease dynamics, epidemic modelling, pathogen population genetics, microbial evolution - Michael K. Gilson
- University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA
Protein, ligand, drug design, simulation, entropy, statistical thermodynamics, electrostatics, informatics - Roderic Guigó
- Center for Genomic Regulation, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Gene finding, sequence patterns, splicing, transcription - Boris S Gutkin
- Department of Cognitive Studies, Ecole Normale Superieure
Paris, France
Computational neuroscience, neural network dynamics, dynamics of neuronal excitability - Jason Haugh
- North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC, USA
Signal transduction in mammalian cells, live-cell microscopy, modeling and analysis of cell motility - Lawrence Hunter
- University of Colorado Denver
Aurora, CO, USA
Biomedical language processing, knowledge-based analysis of genome-scale data, visual analytics,
user-centered design of biomedical software - Ilya Ioshikhes
- University of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON, Canada
Mechanisms of gene regulation: epigenetics, chromatin, promoters,transcription factors,
microRNA; sequence analysis - Lars Juhl Jensen
- University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark
Cell cycle, systems biology, text mining - Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond
- University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA, USA
Viral evolution, phylogenetics, comparative sequence analysis, statistical methods,
algorithm and software design - Luhua Lai
- Peking University
Beijing, China
Protein structure function prediction - Peter Latham
- University College London
London, UK
Neural coding, population coding, network dynamics, attractor networks - Thomas Lengauer
- Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Saarbrücken, Germany
Protein structure and function, docking and drug screening, bioinformatics for diseases - Michael Levitt
- Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
Computational structural biology, protein folding, sequences and statistical methods - Wen-Hsiung Li
- University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
Molecular and genomic evolution - Dennis Livesay
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Charlotte, NC, USA
Computational structural biology, biophysics, free energy, protein dynamics, electrostatics, functional
site prediction, multiple sequence alignment - Feilim Mac Gabhann
- Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA
Ligand-receptor kinetics, receptor trafficking, multiscale modeling, drug delivery, intracellular signaling - Laurence T. Maloney
- New York University
New York, NY, USA
Mathematical statistics, stochastic models, vision, motor control, experimental economics - Costas D. Maranas
- The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, USA
Reconstruction, analysis and redesign of metabolic networks, computational protein design,
systems/synthetic biology - Scott Markel
- Accelrys (SciTegic R&D)
San Diego, CA, USA
Software, sequence analysis, workflow and data pipelining - Marc A. Marti-Renom
- Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe
Valencia, Spain
Structural computational biology, protein/RNA structure prediction, ligand binding site prediction,
chromatin higher-order folding, tropical diseases - Andrew McCulloch
- University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA
Multi-scale modeling, computational cardiac biophysics and physiology, computational cell physiology - Christian von Mering
- University of Zürich, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Zürich, Switzerland
Environmental genomics, microbial ecology, protein networks, proteomics - Lauren Ancel Meyers
- University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX, USA
Microbial population biology, RNA structural evolution, network epidemiology - Satoru Miyano
- University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
Gene networks, computational systems biology, microarray data analysis - Abigail Morrison
- University of Freiburg
Freiburg, Germany
Computational neuroscience, neuronal networks, learning, plasticity - Erik van Nimwegen
- Biozentrum, University of Basel
Basel, Switzerland
Regulatory, comparative, and evolutionary genomics - William Stafford Noble
- University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
Shotgun mass spectrometry, chromatin, supervised learning - Yanay Ofran
- Bar Ilan University
Ramat Gan, Israel
Function prediction, protein interaction, immunoinformatics, bioinformatics of disease - Christine Orengo
- University College London
London, UK
protein structure/sequence analysis, comparative genomics, molecular evolution - Christos A. Ouzounis
- The Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
Thessalonica, Greece
Comparative genomics, genome databases, metabolic pathways - Vijay Pande
- Stanford University,
Stanford, CA, USA
Protein folding, protein misfolding diseases, RNA folding, computational drug design - Jason Papin
- University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Biochemical networks, infectious disease - Mercedes Pascual
- University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Population dynamics of infectious diseases, ecological networks, theoretical ecology - Itsik Pe'er
- Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
Statistical genetics, population genetics, association analysis, sequencing - Bjoern Peters
- La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
La Jolla, CA, USA
Immune recognition, data integration - Teresa Przytycka
- National Center for Biotechnology Information
Bethesda, MD, USA
Systems biology, genotype-phenotype association, gene regulation, molecular structure - Christopher V. Rao
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL, USA
Signaling networks, motility, chemotaxis - Jennifer Reed
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA
Systems biology, metabolic networks, regulatory networks, metabolic engineering, symbiosis - Isidore Rigoutsos
- Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Genomics, RNA biogenesis and action, transcription and translation regulation, disease genetics and informatics,
motif discovery, retroelements, organism-specific regulation, high-throughput sequencing - Frederick Roth
- University of Toronto and Mount Sinai Hospital
Toronto, ON, Canada
Genetic interactions, host-virus interactions, synthetic biology, genome-wide association studies - Rob Russell
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany
Protein structure, interactions, networks - Andrey Rzhetsky
- University Of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
Text mining, molecular networks, evolution - Marcel Salathé
- The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, USA
Social and behavioral dynamics, network epidemiology, infectious disease dynamics - David Searls
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
Macromolecular linguistics, pharmacoinformatics, data integration, philosophy of science - Eran Segal
- Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel
Gene expression, chromatin, probabilistic models - Eugene Shakhnovich
- Harvard University
Boston, MA, USA
Protein folding and design, molecular evolution, computational drug design - Stas Shvartsman
- Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA
Signal transduction, pattern formation, and embryonic development - Adam Siepel
- Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA
Comparative genomics, molecular evolution, sequence analysis - Mona Singh
- Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA
Molecular networks, protein interactions, structural bioinformatics - Donna Slonim
- Tufts University
Boston, MA, USA
Networks, systems biology, pharmacogenomics, disease bioinformatics - Berend Snel
- Utrecht University
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Evolutionary genomics, protein interactions, orthology - Jörg Stelling
- ETH Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
Computational systems biology, network structures and dynamics, circuit design - Emad Tajkhorshid
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL, USA
Molecular modeling and simulation studies of membranes, membrane proteins, and membrane-associated phenomena - Mark Tanaka
- University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
Microbial evolution, molecular epidemiology, model-based statistical inference - Amos Tanay
- Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel
Epigenetics, comparative genomics, molecular evolution, cancer genome regulation - Sarah A. Teichmann
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Cambridge, UK
Protein complexes, gene expression dynamics, transcriptional regulatory networks - Denis Thieffry
- Ecole Normale Supérieure
Paris, France
Computational systems biology, gene regulation, cell fate specification, logical modelling - Greg Tucker-Kellogg
- National University of Singapore
Singapore, Singapore
Systems biology, genomics, drug discovery and development - Claus O. Wilke
- The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX, USA
Computational evolutionary biology, virus evolution, protein folding
Editorial Advisory Board
- Peer Bork
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Heidelberg, Germany - David Eisenberg
- University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA - Karl Friston
- University College London
London, UK - Mark Gerstein
- Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA - Trey Ideker
- University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA - Roy Kishony
- Harvard University
Boston, MA, USA - Eugene Koonin
- National Center for Biotechnology Information
Bethesda, MD, USA - Simon Levin
- Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA - John Mattick
- University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia - Andrej Sali
- University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA - Chris Sander
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY, USA