The neural mechanisms determining the timing of even simple actions, such as when to walk or rest, are largely mysterious. One intriguing, but untested, hypothesis posits a role for ongoing activity fluctuations in neurons of central action selection circuits that drive animal behavior from moment to moment. Maesani et al.
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“Broadband” Bioinformatics Skills Transfer with the Knowledge Transfer Programme (KTP): Educational Model for Upliftment and Sustainable Development
PLOS Computational Biology: published November 19, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004512
Review
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Integrated Modeling of Gene Regulatory and Metabolic Networks in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Multiscale Embedded Gene Co-expression Network Analysis
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Inferring the Forces Controlling Metaphase Kinetochore Oscillations by Reverse Engineering System Dynamics
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VDJtools: Unifying Post-analysis of T Cell Receptor Repertoires
PLOS Computational Biology: published November 25, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004503
Reputation Effects in Public and Private Interactions
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Towards a Molecular Understanding of the Link between Imatinib Resistance and Kinase Conformational Dynamics
PLOS Computational Biology: published November 25, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004578
SINCERA: A Pipeline for Single-Cell RNA-Seq Profiling Analysis
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A Model of Drosophila Larva Chemotaxis
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A Jump-from-Cavity Pyrophosphate Ion Release Assisted by a Key Lysine Residue in T7 RNA Polymerase Transcription Elongation
PLOS Computational Biology: published November 24, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004624
Red Queen Processes Drive Positive Selection on Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) Genes
PLOS Computational Biology: published November 24, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004627
Remodeling and Tenacity of Inhibitory Synapses: Relationships with Network Activity and Neighboring Excitatory Synapses
PLOS Computational Biology: published November 24, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004632
Fluctuation-Driven Neural Dynamics Reproduce Drosophila Locomotor Patterns
PLOS Computational Biology: published November 23, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004577
Computational Modelling of Metastasis Development in Renal Cell Carcinoma
PLOS Computational Biology: published November 23, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004626
A Systematic Bayesian Integration of Epidemiological and Genetic Data
PLOS Computational Biology: published November 23, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004633
Quantifying Stochastic Noise in Cultured Circadian Reporter Cells
PLOS Computational Biology: published November 20, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004451
Stochastic Regulation of her1/7 Gene Expression Is the Source of Noise in the Zebrafish Somite Clock Counteracted by Notch Signalling
PLOS Computational Biology: published November 20, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004459
Finding New Order in Biological Functions from the Network Structure of Gene Annotations
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A Dual Model for Prioritizing Cancer Mutations in the Non-coding Genome Based on Germline and Somatic Events
PLOS Computational Biology: published November 20, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004583
Computational Model of MicroRNA Control of HIF-VEGF Pathway: Insights into the Pathophysiology of Ischemic Vascular Disease and Cancer
PLOS Computational Biology: published November 20, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004612
Parsimony, Exhaustivity and Balanced Detection in Neocortex
PLOS Computational Biology: published November 20, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004623
A Bio-inspired Collision Avoidance Model Based on Spatial Information Derived from Motion Detectors Leads to Common Routes
PLOS Computational Biology: published November 19, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004339
Untangling Brain-Wide Dynamics in Consciousness by Cross-Embedding
PLOS Computational Biology: published November 19, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004537
Regulation of Early Steps of GPVI Signal Transduction by Phosphatases: A Systems Biology Approach
PLOS Computational Biology: published November 19, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004589
Learning of Chunking Sequences in Cognition and Behavior
PLOS Computational Biology: published November 19, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004592
Differences in Visual-Spatial Input May Underlie Different Compression Properties of Firing Fields for Grid Cell Modules in Medial Entorhinal Cortex
PLOS Computational Biology: published November 19, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004596
SAAS-CNV: A Joint Segmentation Approach on Aggregated and Allele Specific Signals for the Identification of Somatic Copy Number Alterations with Next-Generation Sequencing Data
PLOS Computational Biology: published November 19, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004618
Beyond the E-Value: Stratified Statistics for Protein Domain Prediction
PLOS Computational Biology: published November 17, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004509
Random Wiring, Ganglion Cell Mosaics, and the Functional Architecture of the Visual Cortex
PLOS Computational Biology: published November 17, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004602
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