We introduce Persistence Weighted Death Simplices (PWDS), a visualisation of the topological features detected by persistent homology in 2D imaging data. Each triangle marks the approximate location of a loop in the cell distribution, with colour indicating whether the loop is formed by proximal (red) or distal (blue) cells, and intensity reflecting its prominence. This visualisation highlights the multiscale structure of cell arrangements and provides an interpretable link between topological features and biological tissue organisation. Torras-Pérez et al. 2025
Image Credit: Maria Torras-Pérez et al.
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Ten quick tips for developing a reproducible Shiny application
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on computational biology early career researchers: A global retrospective study
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From ideal to practical: Heterogeneity of student-generated variant lists highlights hidden reproducibility gaps
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Ten simple rules for optimal and careful use of generative AI in science
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 28, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013588
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PLOS Computational Biology: published October 30, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013624
Research Articles
Improving policy design and epidemic response using integrated models of economic choice and disease dynamics with behavioral feedback
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 3, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013549
The quarantine hospital strategy as a way to reduce both community and nosocomial transmission in the context of a COVID-like epidemic
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 3, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013548
A Bayesian model of distance perception from ocular convergence
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Three types of remapping with linear decoders: A population-geometric perspective
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 3, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013545
Modelling plant disease spread and containment: Simulation and approximate Bayesian Computation for Xylella fastidiosa in Puglia, Italy
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 3, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013539
A multi-layer encoder prediction model for individual sample specific gene combination effect (MLEC-iGeneCombo)
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 3, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013547
RNAtranslator: Modeling protein-conditional RNA design as sequence-to-sequence natural language translation
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 3, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013541
A mixture of attention experts-embedded flow-based generative model to create synthetic cells in single-cell RNA-Seq datasets
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 6, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013525
Host responses and viral traits interact to shape the impacts of climate warming on highly pathogenic avian influenza in migratory waterfowl
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 6, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013451
Understanding the high-order network plasticity mechanisms of ultrasound neuromodulation
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 6, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013514
AI-driven discovery of novel extracellular matrix biomarkers in pelvic organ prolapse
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 7, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013483
Dynamic modelling of cell cycle arrest through integrated single-cell and mathematical modelling approaches
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A digital DNA system favours the superiority of unidirectional inheritance over ‘Lamarckian’ inheritance
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OCIAD2 as a novel prognostic and therapeutic biomarker for pancreatic cancer: A study based on transcriptomic signature and bioinformatics analysis
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The mechanism of dynamic steady states in lamellipodia
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Mouse and human striatal projection neurons compared - somatodendritic arbor, spines and in silico analyses
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Superspreading and the evolution of virulence
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Spatial distribution of cytoskeleton-mediated feedback controls cell polarization: A computational study
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 9, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013036
Importance of localized dilatation and distensibility in identifying determinants of thoracic aortic aneurysm with neural operators
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Diverse and flexible behavioral strategies arise in recurrent neural networks trained on multisensory decision making
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 9, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013559
Assessing parameter identifiability of a hemodynamics PDE model using spectral surrogates and dimension reduction
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 9, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013553
Environmental motion presented ahead of self-motion modulates heading direction estimation
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 9, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013571
Differential equation modeling of cell population dynamics in skeletal muscle regeneration from single-cell transcriptomic data
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 10, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013575
Learning spatial hearing via innate mechanisms
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 10, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013543
Enhancing antibody-antigen interaction prediction with atomic flexibility
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 13, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013576
Social imitation dynamics of vaccination driven by vaccine effectiveness and beliefs
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 13, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013586
Understanding the mechanism of facilitation in hoverfly TSDNs
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 13, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012986
Multivariate resilience indicators to anticipate vector-borne disease outbreaks: A West Nile virus case-study
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 13, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012703
A compact model of Escherichia coli core and biosynthetic metabolism
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 13, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013564
Social inequalities in vaccine coverage and their effects on epidemic spreading
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 13, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013585
InteracTor: Feature engineering and explainable AI for profiling protein structure-interaction-function relationships
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 13, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013038
Exact conditions for evolutionary stability in indirect reciprocity under noise
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 14, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013584
Model-based inference of cell cycle dynamics captures alterations of the DNA replication programme
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 14, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013570
Deep learning detection of dynamic exocytosis events in fluorescence TIRF microscopy
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 14, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013556
Transmission thresholds for the spread of infections in healthcare facilities
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 15, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013577
CASynergy: A causal attention model for interpretable prediction of cancer drug synergy
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 15, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013567
ArcDFI: Attention regularization guided by CYP450 interactions for predicting drug-food interactions
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 15, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013055
Drug-disease networks and drug repurposing
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 16, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013595
Memorization bias impacts modeling of alternative conformational states of solute carrier membrane proteins with methods from deep learning
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 17, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013590
Multiscale networks in Alzheimer’s disease identify brain hypometabolism as central across biological scales
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 17, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013583
Stabilized marker gene identification and functional annotation from single-cell transcriptomic data
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 17, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013574
Statistical regularities in natural scenes that support figure-ground segregation by neural populations
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 17, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013573
Homeostatic bidirectional plasticity in upbound and downbound micromodules in a model of the olivocerebellar loop
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 21, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013609
The structural effects of indel polymorphisms outside the binding site on RNA-protein interactions are shaped by selection
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 21, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013604
Multi-cellular network model predicts alterations in glomerular endothelial structure in diabetic kidney disease
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 23, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013598
Predicting residue ionization of OmpF channel using Constant pH Molecular Dynamics as benchmark
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 23, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013628
Simultaneously determining regional heterogeneity and connection directionality from neural activity and symmetric connection
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 23, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013612
Elastic analysis bridges structure and dynamics of an AAA+ molecular motor
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 24, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013596
Similarity-based transfer learning with deep learning networks for accurate CRISPR-Cas9 off-target prediction
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 24, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013606
Synchrony, oscillations, and phase relationships in collective neuronal activity: A highly comparative overview of methods
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 24, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013597
Manifold transform by recurrent cortical circuit enhances robust encoding of familiar stimuli
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 24, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013587
BMDD: A probabilistic framework for accurate imputation of zero-inflated microbiome sequencing data
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 24, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013124
Improved gene regulatory network inference from single cell data with dropout augmentation
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 24, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013603
A semi-automated algorithm for image analysis of respiratory organoids
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 27, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013589
Unpacking the V1 map: Differential covariation of preferred spatial frequency and cortical magnification across spatial dimensions
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 27, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013599
Multi-feature fusion network with marginal focal dice loss for multi-label therapeutic peptide prediction
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 27, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013622
Optimization-based framework with flux balance analysis (FBA) and metabolic pathway analysis (MPA) for identifying metabolic objective functions
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 27, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013635
Noradrenaline and acetylcholine shape functional connectivity organization of NREM substages: An empirical and simulation study
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 28, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012852
Inference of weak-form partial differential equations describing migration and proliferation mechanisms in wound healing experiments on cancer cells
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 28, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013607
Adaptive proximity to criticality underlies amplification of ultra-slow fluctuations during free recall
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 28, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013528
Seeing what you hear: Compression of rat visual perceptual space by task-irrelevant sounds
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 29, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013608
The relationship between anxious traits and learning about changes in stochasticity and volatility
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 30, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013646
HMFGraph: Novel Bayesian approach for recovering biological networks
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 30, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013614
Ligand discrimination in immune cells: Signal processing insights into immune dysfunction in ER+ breast cancer
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 30, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013615
Block sparse Bayes-based fuzzy system for RNA N6-methyladenosine sites prediction
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 30, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013621
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Correction: Low-dimensional controllability of brain networks
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 21, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013601
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Quantifying HiPSC-CM structural organization at scale with deep learning-enhanced SarcGraph
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 3, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013436
A Bayesian model for repeated cross-sectional epidemic prevalence survey data
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 3, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013515
A method for analysing tissue motion and deformation during mammalian organogenesis
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 15, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013275
Topology across scales on heterogeneous cell data
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 15, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013460
TastepepAI: An artificial intelligence platform for taste peptide de novo design
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 16, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013602
Spatial domain identification method based on multi-view graph convolutional network and contrastive learning
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 17, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013369
Scalable, trustworthy generative model for virtual multi-staining from H&E whole slide images
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 21, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013516
Analytical and computational solution for the estimation of SNP-heritability in biobank-scale and distributed datasets
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 21, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013568
Inferring effective networks of spiking neurons using a continuous-time estimator of transfer entropy
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 22, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013500
Software
PPI-ID: Streamlining protein-protein interaction prediction through domain and SLiM mapping
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 16, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013062
GeneDrive.jl: A decision tool to optimize biological vector control strategies under climate change
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 21, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013600
Detecting polynucleotide motifs: Pentads, hexads, and beyond
PLOS Computational Biology: published October 28, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013633