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March 2021

The image demonstrates application of DeepMIB software for segmentation of 2D and 3D light and electron microscopy datasets. DeepMIB can train convolutional neural networks and apply them to segment multidimensional biological datasets. DeepMIB comes in a single, easy to install package bundled with Microscopy Image Browser. Its utilization does not require programming skills nor large knowledge about deep learning and, thus, is suitable for everyone. Belevich and Jokitalo (2021)

Image Credit: Ilya Belevich

Editorials

Ten simple rules for quick and dirty scientific programming

Gabriel Balaban, Ivar Grytten, Knut Dagestad Rand, Lonneke Scheffer, Geir Kjetil Sandve

Ten simple rules for hitting a home run with your elevator pitch

Whitney Rachel Morgan, Erik Scott Wright

Collaborating with our community to increase code sharing

Lauren Cadwallader, Jason A. Papin, Feilim Mac Gabhann, Rebecca Kirk

Education Articles

Ten quick tips for staying safe online

Danielle Smalls, Greg Wilson

Hands-on training about overfitting

Janez Demšar, Blaž Zupan

Application of a bioinformatics training delivery method for reaching dispersed and distant trainees

Christina R. Hall, Philippa C. Griffin, Andrew J. Lonie, Jeffrey H. Christiansen

Principles for data analysis workflows

Sara Stoudt, Váleri N. Vásquez, Ciera C. Martinez

Research Articles

Signal-to-signal neural networks for improved spike estimation from calcium imaging data

Jilt Sebastian, Mriganka Sur, Hema A. Murthy, Mathew Magimai-Doss

Learning receptive field properties of complex cells in V1

Yanbo Lian, Ali Almasi, David B. Grayden, Tatiana Kameneva, Anthony N. Burkitt, Hamish Meffin

Linear-nonlinear cascades capture synaptic dynamics

Julian Rossbroich, Daniel Trotter, John Beninger, Katalin Tóth, Richard Naud

Repulsive expansion dynamics in colony growth and gene expression

Yangxiaolu Cao, John Neu, Andrew E. Blanchard, Ting Lu, Lingchong You

Reciprocal interaction between IK1 and If in biological pacemakers: A simulation study

Yacong Li, Kuanquan Wang, Qince Li, Jules C. Hancox, Henggui Zhang

Integrating structure-based machine learning and co-evolution to investigate specificity in plant sesquiterpene synthases

Janani Durairaj, Elena Melillo, Harro J. Bouwmeester, Jules Beekwilder, Dick de Ridder, Aalt D. J. van Dijk

Combinatorial mathematical modelling approaches to interrogate rear retraction dynamics in 3D cell migration

Joseph H. R. Hetmanski, Matthew C. Jones, Fatima Chunara, Jean-Marc Schwartz, Patrick T. Caswell

BARcode DEmixing through Non-negative Spatial Regression (BarDensr)

Shuonan Chen, Jackson Loper, Xiaoyin Chen, Alex Vaughan, Anthony M. Zador, Liam Paninski

Integrating across neuroimaging modalities boosts prediction accuracy of cognitive ability

Javier Rasero, Amy Isabella Sentis, Fang-Cheng Yeh, Timothy Verstynen

Modelling the impact of clot fragmentation on the microcirculation after thrombectomy

Wahbi K. El-Bouri, Andrew MacGowan, Tamás I. Józsa, Matthew J. Gounis, Stephen J. Payne

Can subjective pain be inferred from objective physiological data? Evidence from patients with sickle cell disease

Mark J. Panaggio, Daniel M. Abrams, Fan Yang, Tanvi Banerjee, Nirmish R. Shah

A multiscale model via single-cell transcriptomics reveals robust patterning mechanisms during early mammalian embryo development

Zixuan Cang, Yangyang Wang, Qixuan Wang, Ken W. Y. Cho, William Holmes, Qing Nie

The very early evolution of protein translocation across membranes

AJ Harris, Aaron David Goldman

Testing, tracing and isolation in compartmental models

Simone Sturniolo, William Waites, Tim Colbourn, David Manheim, Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths

Health inequities in influenza transmission and surveillance

Casey M. Zipfel, Vittoria Colizza, Shweta Bansal

Rational inattention and tonic dopamine

John G. Mikhael, Lucy Lai, Samuel J. Gershman

Modelling of malaria risk, rates, and trends: A spatiotemporal approach for identifying and targeting sub-national areas of high and low burden

Jailos Lubinda, Yaxin Bi, Busiku Hamainza, Ubydul Haque, Adrian J. Moore

Assessing the feasibility and effectiveness of household-pooled universal testing to control COVID-19 epidemics

Pieter J. K. Libin, Lander Willem, Timothy Verstraeten, Andrea Torneri, Joris Vanderlocht, Niel Hens

Mathematical modeling of the Candida albicans yeast to hyphal transition reveals novel control strategies

David J. Wooten, Jorge Gómez Tejeda Zañudo, David Murrugarra, Austin M. Perry, Anna Dongari-Bagtzoglou, Reinhard Laubenbacher, Clarissa J. Nobile, Réka Albert

A kinetic model of the central carbon metabolism for acrylic acid production in Escherichia coli

Alexandre Oliveira, Joana Rodrigues, Eugénio Campos Ferreira, Lígia Rodrigues, Oscar Dias

Force variability is mostly not motor noise: Theoretical implications for motor control

Akira Nagamori, Christopher M. Laine, Gerald E. Loeb, Francisco J. Valero-Cuevas

Biological impact of mutually exclusive exon switching

Su Datt Lam, M. Madan Babu, Jonathan Lees, Christine A. Orengo

Using deep neural networks to evaluate object vision tasks in rats

Kasper Vinken, Hans Op de Beeck

Mechanical coupling in the nitrogenase complex

Qi Huang, Monika Tokmina-Lukaszewska, Lewis E. Johnson, Hayden Kallas, Bojana Ginovska, John W. Peters, Lance C. Seefeldt, Brian Bothner, Simone Raugei

Group testing as a strategy for COVID-19 epidemiological monitoring and community surveillance

Vincent Brault, Bastien Mallein, Jean-François Rupprecht

Inferring phenomenological models of first passage processes

Catalina Rivera, David Hofmann, Ilya Nemenman

Graph of graphs analysis for multiplexed data with application to imaging mass cytometry

Ya-Wei Eileen Lin, Tal Shnitzer, Ronen Talmon, Franz Villarroel-Espindola, Shruti Desai, Kurt Schalper, Yuval Kluger

Optimal prediction with resource constraints using the information bottleneck

Vedant Sachdeva, Thierry Mora, Aleksandra M. Walczak, Stephanie E. Palmer

Vocalization with semi-occluded airways is favorable for optimizing sound production

Ingo R. Titze, Anil Palaparthi, Karin Cox, Amanda Stark, Lynn Maxfield, Brian Manternach

Parameters and determinants of responses to selection in antibody libraries

Steven Schulz, Sébastien Boyer, Matteo Smerlak, Simona Cocco, Rémi Monasson, Clément Nizak, Olivier Rivoire

Success of prophylactic antiviral therapy for SARS-CoV-2: Predicted critical efficacies and impact of different drug-specific mechanisms of action

Peter Czuppon, Florence Débarre, Antonio Gonçalves, Olivier Tenaillon, Alan S. Perelson, Jérémie Guedj, François Blanquart

Optimal timing of one-shot interventions for epidemic control

Francesco Di Lauro, István Z. Kiss, Joel C. Miller

COMSUC: A web server for the identification of consensus molecular subtypes of cancer based on multiple methods and multi-omics data

Song He, Xinyu Song, Xiaoxi Yang, Jijun Yu, Yuqi Wen, Lianlian Wu, Bowei Yan, Jiannan Feng, Xiaochen Bo

Aggregation of Aβ40/42 chains in the presence of cyclic neuropeptides investigated by molecular dynamics simulations

Min Wu, Lyudmyla Dorosh, Gerold Schmitt-Ulms, Holger Wille, Maria Stepanova

Transcriptional bursts explain autosomal random monoallelic expression and affect allelic imbalance

Anton J. M. Larsson, Christoph Ziegenhain, Michael Hagemann-Jensen, Björn Reinius, Tina Jacob, Tim Dalessandri, Gert-Jan Hendriks, Maria Kasper, Rickard Sandberg

Assessing criticality in pre-seizure single-neuron activity of human epileptic cortex

Annika Hagemann, Jens Wilting, Bita Samimizad, Florian Mormann, Viola Priesemann

Age-structured non-pharmaceutical interventions for optimal control of COVID-19 epidemic

Quentin Richard, Samuel Alizon, Marc Choisy, Mircea T. Sofonea, Ramsès Djidjou-Demasse

Assessing the contribution of tumor mutational phenotypes to cancer progression risk

Yifeng Tao, Ashok Rajaraman, Xiaoyue Cui, Ziyi Cui, Haoran Chen, Yuanqi Zhao, Jesse Eaton, Hannah Kim, Jian Ma, Russell Schwartz

Interspecies chimeric conditions affect the developmental rate of human pluripotent stem cells

Jared Brown, Christopher Barry, Matthew T. Schmitz, Cara Argus, Jennifer M. Bolin, Michael P. Schwartz, Amy Van Aartsen, John Steill, Scott Swanson, Ron Stewart, James A. Thomson, Christina Kendziorski

Tuned inhibition in perceptual decision-making circuits can explain seemingly suboptimal confidence behavior

Brian Maniscalco, Brian Odegaard, Piercesare Grimaldi, Seong Hah Cho, Michele A. Basso, Hakwan Lau, Megan A. K. Peters

Public Baseline and shared response structures support the theory of antibody repertoire functional commonality

Matthew I. J. Raybould, Claire Marks, Aleksandr Kovaltsuk, Alan P. Lewis, Jiye Shi, Charlotte M. Deane

SARS-CoV-2 viral dynamics in non-human primates

Antonio Gonçalves, Pauline Maisonnasse, Flora Donati, Mélanie Albert, Sylvie Behillil, Vanessa Contreras, Thibaut Naninck, Romain Marlin, Caroline Solas, Andres Pizzorno, Julien Lemaitre, Nidhal Kahlaoui, Olivier Terrier, Raphael Ho Tsong Fang, Vincent Enouf, Nathalie Dereuddre-Bosquet, Angela Brisebarre, Franck Touret, Catherine Chapon, Bruno Hoen, Bruno Lina, Manuel Rosa Calatrava, Xavier de Lamballerie, France Mentré, Roger Le Grand, Sylvie van der Werf, Jérémie Guedj

Physiologically based pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic model for the prediction of morphine brain disposition and analgesia in adults and children

Laurens F. M. Verscheijden, Carlijn H. C. Litjens, Jan B. Koenderink, Ron H. J. Mathijssen, Marcel M. Verbeek, Saskia N. de Wildt, Frans G. M. Russel

Neural modelling of the encoding of fast frequency modulation

Alejandro Tabas, Katharina von Kriegstein

Detection of gene cis-regulatory element perturbations in single-cell transcriptomes

Grace Hui Ting Yeo, Oscar Juez, Qing Chen, Budhaditya Banerjee, Lendy Chu, Max W. Shen, May Sabry, Ive Logister, Richard I. Sherwood, David K. Gifford

Excitatory-inhibitory tone shapes decision strategies in a hierarchical neural network model of multi-attribute choice

Warren Woodrich Pettine, Kenway Louie, John D. Murray, Xiao-Jing Wang

CODON—Software to manual curation of prokaryotic genomes

Bruno Merlin, Jorianne Thyeska Castro Alves, Pablo Henrique Caracciolo Gomes de Sá, Mônica Silva de Oliveira, Larissa Maranhão Dias, Gislenne da Silva Moia, Victória Cardoso dos Santos, Adonney Allan de Oliveira Veras

DCMD: Distance-based classification using mixture distributions on microbiome data

Konstantin Shestopaloff, Mei Dong, Fan Gao, Wei Xu

Gene variants of coagulation related proteins that interact with SARS-CoV-2

David Holcomb, Aikaterini Alexaki, Nancy Hernandez, Ryan Hunt, Kyle Laurie, Jacob Kames, Nobuko Hamasaki-Katagiri, Anton A. Komar, Michael DiCuccio, Chava Kimchi-Sarfaty

A network-informed analysis of SARS-CoV-2 and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis genes’ interactions points to Neutrophil extracellular traps as mediators of thrombosis in COVID-19

Jun Ding, David Earl Hostallero, Mohamed Reda El Khili, Gregory Joseph Fonseca, Simon Milette, Nuzha Noorah, Myriam Guay-Belzile, Jonathan Spicer, Noriko Daneshtalab, Martin Sirois, Karine Tremblay, Amin Emad, Simon Rousseau

Bridging the gap: Using reservoir ecology and human serosurveys to estimate Lassa virus spillover in West Africa

Andrew J. Basinski, Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet, Anna R. Sjodin, Tanner J. Varrelman, Christopher H. Remien, Nathan C. Layman, Brian H. Bird, David J. Wolking, Corina Monagin, Bruno M. Ghersi, Peter A. Barry, Michael A. Jarvis, Paul E. Gessler, Scott L. Nuismer

Estimating incidence of infection from diverse data sources: Zika virus in Puerto Rico, 2016

Talia M. Quandelacy, Jessica M. Healy, Bradford Greening, Dania M. Rodriguez, Koo-Whang Chung, Matthew J. Kuehnert, Brad J. Biggerstaff, Emilio Dirlikov, Luis Mier-y-Teran-Romero, Tyler M. Sharp, Stephen Waterman, Michael A. Johansson

The biophysical basis underlying the maintenance of early phase long-term potentiation

Moritz F. P. Becker, Christian Tetzlaff

Predicting recognition between T cell receptors and epitopes with TCRGP

Emmi Jokinen, Jani Huuhtanen, Satu Mustjoki, Markus Heinonen, Harri Lähdesmäki

Demonstrating the utility of flexible sequence queries against indexed short reads with FlexTyper

Phillip Andrew Richmond, Alice Mary Kaye, Godfrain Jacques Kounkou, Tamar Vered Av-Shalom, Wyeth W. Wasserman

Predicting microbial growth dynamics in response to nutrient availability

Olga A. Nev, Richard J. Lindsay, Alys Jepson, Lisa Butt, Robert E. Beardmore, Ivana Gudelj

Prediction of amphipathic helix—membrane interactions with Rosetta

Alican Gulsevin, Jens Meiler

Boosting GWAS using biological networks: A study on susceptibility to familial breast cancer

Héctor Climente-González, Christine Lonjou, Fabienne Lesueur, GENESIS study group, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Nadine Andrieu, Chloé-Agathe Azencott

The evolutionary origin of the universal distribution of mutation fitness effect

Ayuna Barlukova, Igor M. Rouzine

Accuracy in the prediction of disease epidemics when ensembling simple but highly correlated models

Denis A. Shah, Erick D. De Wolf, Pierce A. Paul, Laurence V. Madden

Collective predator evasion: Putting the criticality hypothesis to the test

Pascal P. Klamser, Pawel Romanczuk

PDKit: A data science toolkit for the digital assessment of Parkinson’s Disease

Cosmin Stamate, Joan Saez Pons, David Weston, George Roussos

A unified framework for inferring the multi-scale organization of chromatin domains from Hi-C

Ji Hyun Bak, Min Hyeok Kim, Lei Liu, Changbong Hyeon

Pandemic velocity: Forecasting COVID-19 in the US with a machine learning & Bayesian time series compartmental model

Gregory L. Watson, Di Xiong, Lu Zhang, Joseph A. Zoller, John Shamshoian, Phillip Sundin, Teresa Bufford, Anne W. Rimoin, Marc A. Suchard, Christina M. Ramirez

Viscoelastic properties of wheat gluten in a molecular dynamics study

Łukasz Mioduszewski, Marek Cieplak

Searching for fat tails in CRISPR-Cas systems: Data analysis and mathematical modeling

Yekaterina S. Pavlova, David Paez-Espino, Andrew Yu. Morozov, Ilya S. Belalov

Full-length ribosome density prediction by a multi-input and multi-output model

Tingzhong Tian, Shuya Li, Peng Lang, Dan Zhao, Jianyang Zeng

Personalized computational model quantifies heterogeneity in postprandial responses to oral glucose challenge

Balázs Erdős, Bart van Sloun, Michiel E. Adriaens, Shauna D. O’Donovan, Dominique Langin, Arne Astrup, Ellen E. Blaak, Ilja C. W. Arts, Natal A. W. van Riel

How does Sec63 affect the conformation of Sec61 in yeast?

Pratiti Bhadra, Lalitha Yadhanapudi, Karin Römisch, Volkhard Helms

Predicting antimicrobial mechanism-of-action from transcriptomes: A generalizable explainable artificial intelligence approach

Josh L. Espinoza, Chris L. Dupont, Aubrie O’Rourke, Sinem Beyhan, Pavel Morales, Amy Spoering, Kirsten J. Meyer, Agnes P. Chan, Yongwook Choi, William C. Nierman, Kim Lewis, Karen E. Nelson

Fixation patterns in simple choice reflect optimal information sampling

Frederick Callaway, Antonio Rangel, Thomas L. Griffiths

Using the antibody-antigen binding interface to train image-based deep neural networks for antibody-epitope classification

Daniel R. Ripoll, Sidhartha Chaudhury, Anders Wallqvist

Deducing high-accuracy protein contact-maps from a triplet of coevolutionary matrices through deep residual convolutional networks

Yang Li, Chengxin Zhang, Eric W. Bell, Wei Zheng, Xiaogen Zhou, Dong-Jun Yu, Yang Zhang

Learning compositional sequences with multiple time scales through a hierarchical network of spiking neurons

Amadeus Maes, Mauricio Barahona, Claudia Clopath

Apoptosis mapping in space and time of 3D tumor ecosystems reveals transmissibility of cytotoxic cancer death

Irina Veith, Arianna Mencattini, Valentin Picant, Marco Serra, Marine Leclerc, Maria Colomba Comes, Fathia Mami-Chouaib, Jacques Camonis, Stéphanie Descroix, Hamasseh Shirvani, Fatima Mechta-Grigoriou, Gérard Zalcman, Maria Carla Parrini, Eugenio Martinelli

Orchestrating privacy-protected big data analyses of data from different resources with R and DataSHIELD

Yannick Marcon, Tom Bishop, Demetris Avraam, Xavier Escriba-Montagut, Patricia Ryser-Welch, Stuart Wheater, Paul Burton, Juan R. González

On realized serial and generation intervals given control measures: The COVID-19 pandemic case

Andrea Torneri, Pieter Libin, Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba, Christel Faes, James G. Wood, Niel Hens