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
- Adam Paul Arkin
- University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA - 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 - Barbara Bryant
- Constellation Pharmaceuticals
Cambridge, MA, USA - Karl Friston
- University College London
London, UK - Lyle J. Graham
- Université Paris Descartes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Paris, France - Hanah Margalit
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel - Nathan Price
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL, USA - Burkhard Rost
- Columbia University
New York, NY, USA - Wyeth Wasserman
- University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Software Editor
- Robert F. Murphy
- Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Reviews Editors
- Ernest Fraenkel
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA - Rolf Kötter
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Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
Nijmegen, Netherlands - Johanna McEntyre
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National Center for Biotechnology Information
Bethesda, MD, USA
Education Editor
- Fran Lewitter
- Whitehead Institute
Cambridge, MA, USA
ISCB Editor
- Olga Troyanskaya
- Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA
Associate Editors
- Ad Aertsen
- Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Freiburg, Germany
Computational neuroscience, neural network dynamics, brain-machine-interfacing - 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 - Manny Ares
- University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
RNA genomics, alternative splicing, gene regulation - Anand Asthagiri
- California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA, USA
Biomolecular cell engineering, signaling networks - Daniel A. Beard
- The Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI, USA
Physiology, metabolism, biochemical thermodynamics, biophysical chemistry, mass transport - 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 - James Briggs
- University of Houston
Houston, TX, USA
Computational structural biology, computer aided drug design - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Matt Jacobson
- University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA
Computational structural biology, computer aided drug design - Lars Juhl Jensen
- University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark
Cell cycle, systems biology, text mining - Konrad Kording
- Northwestern University
Chicago, IL, USA
Computational neuroscience, systems neuroscience, cognitive science, bayesian statistics - 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 - Douglas Lauffenburger
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA
Quantitative cell biology, cellular bioengineering, receptor/ligand processes, signaling 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 - Scott Markel
- Accelrys (SciTegic R&D)
San Diego, CA, USA
Software, sequence analysis, workflow and data pipelining - Andrew McCulloch
- University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA
Multi-scale modeling, computational cardiac biophysics and physiology, computational cell physiology - Angela McLean
- University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
Theoretical epidemiology, theoretical immunology - 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
- RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Wakoshi, Saitama, Japan
Computational neuroscience, neuronal networks, learning, plasticity - William Stafford Noble
- University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
Shotgun mass spectrometry, chromatin, supervised learning - Uwe Ohler
- Duke University
Durham, NC, USA
Eukaryotic gene regulation: DNA and RNA sequence analysis, image analysis - Christine Orengo
- University College London
London, UK
protein structure/sequence analysis, comparative genomics, molecular evolution - Christos A. Ouzounis
- King's College London
London, UK
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 - Yitzhak (Tzachi) Pilpel
- Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel
Regulatory genomics, transcription, genetic interactions - Chris P. Ponting
- University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
Comparative genomics, genome evolution, structural variation, non-coding RNA evolution - Rama Ranganathan
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX, USA
Evolutionary principles of proteins and cellular signaling systems - Christopher V. Rao
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL, USA
Signaling networks, motility, chemotaxis - Aviv Regev
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Boston, MA, USA
Molecular networks, comparative genomics, molecular evolution, genomics (including disease genomics),
machine learning, gene expression, gene regulation - Isidore Rigoutsos
- IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Genomics, RNA biogenesis and action, transcription and translation regulation, disease genetics and informatics, motif discovery, retroelements, organism-specific regulation, high-throughput sequencing - Rob Russell
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany
Protein structure, interactions, networks - Andrey Rzhetsky
- Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
Text mining, molecular networks, evolution - 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 - Adam Siepel
- Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA
Comparative genomics, molecular evolution, sequence analysis - 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 - Olaf Sporns
- Indiana University
Bloomington, IL, USA
Computational neuroscience, brain networks, neurodynamics - Jörg Stelling
- ETH Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
Computational systems biology, network structures and dynamics, circuit design - Greg Tucker-Kellogg
- Lilly - Singapore Centre for Drug Discovery
Singapore, Singapore
Systems biology, genomics, drug discovery and development - Weixiong Zhang
- Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO, USA
MicroRNAs and small noncoding RNAs, gene regulation and regulatory networks,
neurodegenerative diseases, machine learning
Editorial Advisory Board
- Peer Bork
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Heidelberg, Germany - David Eisenberg
- University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA - 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 - Shoshana Wodak
- University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada