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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

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