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Volume 4(3);  March 2008
Perspective
Computational Biology in Costa Rica: The Role of a Small Country in the Global Context of Bioinformatics
Edgardo Moreno, Bruno Lomonte, and José-María Gutiérrez
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000040. Published online 2008 March 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000040.
PMCID: PMC2265517
Editorial
Open Access: Taking Full Advantage of the Content
Philip E. Bourne, J. Lynn Fink, and Mark Gerstein
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000037. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000037.
PMCID: PMC2275780
Research Articles
Robustness of Learning That Is Based on Covariance-Driven Synaptic Plasticity
Yonatan Loewenstein
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000007. Published online 2008 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000007.
PMCID: PMC2265526
Entropy Measures Quantify Global Splicing Disorders in Cancer
William Ritchie, Samuel Granjeaud, Denis Puthier, and Daniel Gautheret
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000011. Published online 2008 March 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000011.
PMCID: PMC2268240
Representing Where along with What Information in a Model of a Cortical Patch
Yasser Roudi and Alessandro Treves
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000012. Published online 2008 March 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000012.
PMCID: PMC2268242
Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Display No Preference for Chaperone Binding In Vivo
Hedi Hegyi and Peter Tompa
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000017. Published online 2008 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000017.
PMCID: PMC2265518
Evolutionary Patterns in the Sequence and Structure of Transfer RNA: Early Origins of Archaea and Viruses
Feng-Jie Sun and Gustavo Caetano-Anollés
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000018. Published online 2008 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000018.
PMCID: PMC2265525
Modeling the Effects of Cell Cycle M-phase Transcriptional Inhibition on Circadian Oscillation
Bin Kang, Yuan-Yuan Li, Xiao Chang, Lei Liu, and Yi-Xue Li
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000019. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000019.
PMCID: PMC2267494
Uncovering a Macrophage Transcriptional Program by Integrating Evidence from Motif Scanning and Expression Dynamics
Stephen A. Ramsey, Sandy L. Klemm, Daniel E. Zak, Kathleen A. Kennedy, Vesteinn Thorsson, Bin Li, Mark Gilchrist, Elizabeth S. Gold, Carrie D. Johnson, Vladimir Litvak, Garnet Navarro, Jared C. Roach, Carrie M. Rosenberger, Alistair G. Rust, Natalya Yudkovsky, Alan Aderem, and Ilya Shmulevich
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000021. Published online 2008 March 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000021.
PMCID: PMC2265556
Structure of Spontaneous UP and DOWN Transitions Self-Organizing in a Cortical Network Model
Siu Kang, Katsunori Kitano, and Tomoki Fukai
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000022. Published online 2008 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000022.
PMCID: PMC2265465
A Continuum Model for Metabolic Gas Exchange in Pear Fruit
Q. Tri Ho, Pieter Verboven, Bert E. Verlinden, Jeroen Lammertyn, Stefan Vandewalle, and Bart M. Nicolaï
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000023. Published online 2008 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000023.
PMCID: PMC2265468
Neural Coding of Natural Stimuli: Information at Sub-Millisecond Resolution
Ilya Nemenman, Geoffrey D. Lewen, William Bialek, and Rob R. de Ruyter van Steveninck
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000025. Published online 2008 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000025.
PMCID: PMC2265477
The Evolution of Robust Development and Homeostasis in Artificial Organisms
David Basanta, Mark Miodownik, and Buzz Baum
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000030. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000030.
PMCID: PMC2274883
Plant Classification from Bat-Like Echolocation Signals
Yossi Yovel, Matthias Otto Franz, Peter Stilz, and Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000032. Published online 2008 March 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000032.
PMCID: PMC2267002
Chromophore Protonation State Controls Photoswitching of the Fluoroprotein asFP595
Lars V. Schäfer, Gerrit Groenhof, Martial Boggio-Pasqua, Michael A. Robb, and Helmut Grubmüller
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000034. Published online 2008 March 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000034.
PMCID: PMC2274881
Electrotonic Signals along Intracellular Membranes May Interconnect Dendritic Spines and Nucleus
Isaac Shemer, Björn Brinne, Jesper Tegnér, and Sten Grillner
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000036. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000036.
PMCID: PMC2266990
Statistical Modeling of Transcription Factor Binding Affinities Predicts Regulatory Interactions
Thomas Manke, Helge G. Roider, and Martin Vingron
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000039. Published online 2008 March 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000039.
PMCID: PMC2266803
A Hidden Feedback in Signaling Cascades Is Revealed
Alejandra C. Ventura, Jacques-A. Sepulchre, and Sofía D. Merajver
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000041. Published online 2008 March 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000041.
PMCID: PMC2265423
Shaping Embodied Neural Networks for Adaptive Goal-directed Behavior
Zenas C. Chao, Douglas J. Bakkum, and Steve M. Potter
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000042. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000042.
PMCID: PMC2265558
Prediction of Human Disease Genes by Human-Mouse Conserved Coexpression Analysis
Ugo Ala, Rosario Michael Piro, Elena Grassi, Christian Damasco, Lorenzo Silengo, Martin Oti, Paolo Provero, and Ferdinando Di Cunto
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000043. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000043.
PMCID: PMC2268251
A Semi-Supervised Method for Predicting Transcription Factor–Gene Interactions in Escherichia coli
Jason Ernst, Qasim K. Beg, Krin A. Kay, Gábor Balázsi, Zoltán N. Oltvai, and Ziv Bar-Joseph
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000044. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000044.
PMCID: PMC2266799
The Dynamics of Human Body Weight Change
Carson C. Chow and Kevin D. Hall
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000045. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000045.
PMCID: PMC2266991
Neurobiological Models of Two-Choice Decision Making Can Be Reduced to a One-Dimensional Nonlinear Diffusion Equation
Alex Roxin and Anders Ledberg
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000046. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000046.
PMCID: PMC2268007
Src Kinase Conformational Activation: Thermodynamics, Pathways, and Mechanisms
Sichun Yang and Benoît Roux
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000047. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000047.
PMCID: PMC2268010
Corrections
Correction: Uncovering a Macrophage Transcriptional Program by Integrating Evidence from Motif Scanning and Expression Dynamics
Stephen A. Ramsey, Sandy L. Klemm, Daniel E. Zak, Kathleen A. Kennedy, Vesteinn Thorsson, Bin Li, Mark Gilchrist, Elizabeth S. Gold, Carrie D. Johnson, Vladimir Litvak, Garnet Navarro, Jared C. Roach, Carrie M. Rosenberger, Alistair G. Rust, Natalya Yudkovsky, Alan Aderem, and Ilya Shmulevich
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): 10.1371/annotation/1c55be5f-ecd7-49be-91c1-91881be60297. Published online 2008 March 25. doi: 10.1371/annotation/1c55be5f-ecd7-49be-91c1-91881be60297.
PMCID: PMC2638128
Corrects: Stephen A. Ramsey, et al. Uncovering a Macrophage Transcriptional Program by Integrating Evidence from Motif Scanning and Expression Dynamics. PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): e1000021.
Correction: Computational and Experimental Analysis of Redundancy in the Central Metabolism of Geobacter sulfurreducens
Daniel Segura, Radhakrishnan Mahadevan, Katy Juárez, and Derek R Lovley
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): 10.1371/annotation/67743d4d-2993-4d0c-951b-3f11ce65a8b4. Published online 2008 March 21. doi: 10.1371/annotation/67743d4d-2993-4d0c-951b-3f11ce65a8b4.
PMCID: PMC2637084
Corrects: Daniel Segura, et al. Computational and Experimental Analysis of Redundancy in the Central Metabolism of Geobacter sulfurreducens. PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 February; 4(2): e36.
Correction: Comparison of Immunogen Designs That Optimize Peptide Coverage: Reply to Fischer et al
David C Nickle, Nebojsa Jojic, David Heckerman, Vladimir Jojic, Darko Kirovski, Morgane Rolland, Sergei Kosakovsky Pond, and James I Mullins
PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 March; 4(3): 10.1371/annotation/da2fae86-8f92-4d32-aefe-a30a1de7a8f8. Published online 2008 March 21. doi: 10.1371/annotation/da2fae86-8f92-4d32-aefe-a30a1de7a8f8.
PMCID: PMC2637083
Corrects: David C Nickle, et al. Comparison of Immunogen Designs That Optimize Peptide Coverage: Reply to Fischer et al. PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 January; 4(1): e25.
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