Tag: PLOS Computational Biology

Mathematical modelling shows that elevated mutation rates and mutational biases, rather than altered selection, can explain why weak atypical KRAS ...

A new PLOS Computational Biology study shows that people distort explicit reliability labels when making decisions, letting even sources flagged ...

A computational study of Aphaenogaster senilis ants shows that idle workers act as a dynamic reserve workforce that stabilizes colony ...

A new computational model shows that phase differences between subregions of the suprachiasmatic nucleus explain why the brain's master circadian ...

A new computational model shows that a small pool of internalized follicle-stimulating hormone receptors can drive outsized endosomal signaling, revealing ...

A new diffusion-model-based tool called Influpaint encodes influenza seasons as spatiotemporal images and generates competitive, probabilistic forecasts of epidemic trajectories ...

A new computational model shows that vasopressin neurons use activity-dependent mRNA upregulation as a long-term memory to balance hormone synthesis ...

A new PLOS Computational Biology study shows that blending the two standard network update rules produces fixation probabilities and times ...

A new computational study shows that humans adapt to threatening decision environments by reweighting reward and threat information and aligning ...

A new joint mixture Tobit statistical model distinguishes true microbial absence from undetected low abundance, improving the detection of microbiome-disease ...