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July 2026

Large-scale spatial pattern emerging from interactions between simulated phytoplankton (green) and zooplankton (red) populations. Specifically, this image merges snapshots for the density of each population (darker color represents higher density), resulting from population-level equations that we deduced by scaling-up an individual-level phytoplankton-zooplankton model. All together, our framework and scaling procedure reveal that signatures of predator individual-level behavior can be observed and quantified in prey large-scale spatial patterns. Colombo et al. 2026

Image Credit: Eduardo Colombo

Education Articles

Ten quick tips to SNIFF out sustainable and secure scientific software

V. P. Nagraj, Karsten H. Siller, Thomas Stewart, Neal Magee, Stephen D. Turner

Eight quick tips for data-model integration in ecology

Laurinne J. Balstad, Joe Brennan, Marissa L. Baskett, Mattea K. Berglund, Mei Z. Blundell, Jessica A. Bolin, Amy A. Briggs, Mary C. Fisher, Christopher M. Heggerud, Madeline Jarvis-Cross, Lauren Mossman, Andrea N. Odell, Jennifer Paige, Sophia Pelletier, Mikaela M. Provost

Twelve quick tips for AI-assisted coding in science

Eric W. Bridgeford, Iain Declan Campbell, Zijiao Chen, Zhicheng Lin, Harrison Ritz, Joachim Vandekerckhove, Russell A. Poldrack

Perspectives

A brief overview of 20 years of neuroscience in PLoS Computational Biology

Hugues Berry, Lyle J. Graham, Kim T. Blackwell

Systems biology during 20 years of PLoS Computational Biology

Mark Alber, Marc R. Birtwistle, Stacey D. Finley, Pedro Mendes

Research Articles

Optimized phenotype definitions boost GWAS power

Michael Zietz, Kathleen LaRow Brown, Undina Gisladottir, Nicholas P. Tatonetti

Mobility data resolution needed to inform predictive models of spatial epidemic spread from mobile phone data

Giulia Pullano, Shweta Bansal, Stefania Rubrichi, Vittoria Colizza

Extracting host-specific developmental signatures from longitudinal microbiome data

Balázs Erdős, Christos Chatzis, Jonathan Thorsen, Jakob Stokholm, Age K. Smilde, Morten A. Rasmussen, Evrim Acar

Zooplankton feeding behavioral signatures in the morphology of macroscale prey spatial distribution

Eduardo H. Colombo, Corina E. Tarnita, Juan A. Bonachela

Predictive coding explains asymmetric connectivity in the brain: A neural network study

Romesa Khan, Hongsheng Zhong, Shuvam Das, Jack Cai, Matthias Niemeier

Population sparseness determines strength of Hebbian plasticity for maximal memory lifetime in associative networks

Naomi Auer, Lars Chen, Jakob Stubenrauch, Benjamin Lindner, Richard Kempter

The energetic cost of human standing balance and gait initiation over a range of natural postures

Matto Leeuwis, Nikki van Aerts, Ajay Seth, Patrick A. Forbes

Development of whole-limb skeletal patterning through the coordination of growth and self-organization models

Soha Ben Tahar, Ester Comellas, Timothy Duerr, Dareen Bakr, James Monaghan, Jose J. Muñoz, Sandra J. Shefelbine

Analysis and design of disordered polypeptides with optimized sequence patterning properties

Arjun Singh, Ali I. Ukperaj, Gabriel F. Porto, Gregory L. Dignon

Spiking neurons as predictive controllers of linear systems

Paolo Agliati, André Urbano, Pablo Lanillos, Nasir Ahmad, Marcel van Gerven, Sander Keemink

Mind the gap: An embedding guide to safely travel in sequence space

Adam Wu, Jakub Lála, Quentin Trolliet, Abhinav Rajendran, Stefano Angioletti-Uberti

Panorama: A robust pangenome-based method for predicting and comparing biological systems across species

Jérôme Arnoux, Jean Mainguy, Laura Bry, Quentin Fernandez de Grado, Yazid Hoblos, David Vallenet, Alexandra Calteau

Quartet: Disentangling positive and negative components of microbial interactions

Aamir Faisal Ansari, Gayathri Sambamoorthy, Thrisha C. Alexander, Yugandhar B. S. Reddy, Janhavi Raut, Narendra M. Dixit

AI-guided identification of natural CTSL inhibitors with therapeutic potential for renal injury

Feier Ma, Qi Li, Sirui Zhou, Xiaoya Li, Jin-Kui Yang

CPP2Vec: A representation learning approach for cell-penetrating peptides prediction

Stavroula Svolou, Vasileios Konstantakos, Anastasia Krithara, Georgios Paliouras

Mutual inhibition model of pattern formation: The role of Wnt-Dickkopf interactions in driving Hydra body axis formation

Moritz Mercker, Alexey Kazarnikov, Anja Tursch, Thomas Richter, Suat Özbek, Thomas Holstein, Anna Marciniak-Czochra

Integrating multi-type features and knowledge graph for graded prediction of drug-induced liver injury in humans

Ying Liu, Kaimiao Hu, Jie Geng, Qi Dai, Leyi Wei, Ran Su

Early reduction in aversive Pavlovian bias as a mediator of anhedonia improvement during Behavioural Activation in realistic treatment settings

Lioba C. S. Berndt, Daisy Crawley, Ruslana Tymchyk, Anna Hall, Jakub Onysk, Tore Erdmann, Elliott Wimmer, Isabel M. Berwian, Agnes Norbury, Quentin J. M. Huys

Popformer: Learning general signatures of positive selection with a self-supervised transformer

Leon Zong, Sorelle A. Friedler, Sara Mathieson

Accounting for Defective Viral Genomes in viral consensus genome reconstruction, application to influenza virus

Kévin Da Silva, Nadia Naffakh, Marie-Anne Rameix-Welti, Frédéric Lemoine

Targeting stiffness-dependent YAP/TAZ restores angiogenesis dynamics impaired by ALK1 knockout in silico

Margot Passier, Sandra Loerakker, Tommaso Ristori

Dynamics-enhanced molecular property prediction guided by deep learning

Qiang Liu, Debby Dan Wang, Weiqing Guo, Yuting Huang, Xizhao Wang

Molecular surveillance of multiplicity of infection, haplotype frequencies, and prevalence in infectious diseases

Henri Christian Junior Tsoungui Obama, Kristan Alexander Schneider

PumpKin: A machine-learning pipeline for automatically tracking localized kinematics in freely moving C. elegans

Erin Shappell, Debra Buggs, Jennah Walcott, Hang Lu

HNPP: Higher-order network-based personalized PageRank for detecting critical phase in complex biological systems

Jiayuan Zhong, Xuerong Gu, Dandan Ding, Qiao Wei, Bowen Niu, Ting Tao, Pei Chen, Rui Liu

Pathways for glomerular macromolecule filtration: A mathematical model for transport across glomerular filtration surface, mesangium and shear-induced shunts

Numpong Punyaratabandhu, Thapakorn Pankoh, Yuttana Roongthumskul, Panadda Dechadilok, Pisut Katavetin

Multi-class, unsupervised detection and classification of biological and anthropogenic sounds in coral reefs

Daniel Duane, Matthew T. Duggan, Erika Berlik, Marc S. Dantzker, Aaron N. Rice, Lauren A. Freeman

Quantifying the spatiotemporal mechanical dynamics of engineered cardiac microbundles

Hiba Kobeissi, Samuel J. DePalma, Javiera Jilberto, David Nordsletten, Brendon M. Baker, Emma Lejeune

Ergodicity transformations predict human decision-making under risk

Benjamin Skjold, Simon Richard Steinkamp, Colm Connaughton, Oliver James Hulme, Ole Peters

Beyond memory capacity: A probabilistic, dual store model of visuospatial working memory

Eduardo A. Aponte, Thanneer M. Perumal, Francesca Cormack, Christopher H. Chatham

Population-level behavioral and structural drivers of COVID-19 vaccine uptake in the US

Ran Xu, Navid Ghaffarzadegan, Gaofei Zhang, Goshi Aoki, Hazhir Rahmandad

Eco-evolutionary dynamics lead to functionally robust and redundant communities

Lorenzo Fant, Iuri Macocco, Jacopo Grilli

A cost-optimized 5-protein panel revolutionizes systemic lupus erythematosus diagnosis

Wenhua Lv, Zhenwei Shang, Chen Sun, Yuping Zou, Siyu Wei, Haiyan Chen, Junxian Tao, Hongsheng Tian, Yu Dong, Chen Zhang, Mingming Zhang, Hongchao Lv, Yongshuai Jiang

Catheter configuration for mapping micro-anatomic reentries sustaining atrial fibrillation: A simulation study

Miguel Rodrigo, Giada S. Romitti, María Termenón-Rivas, Ning Li, Vadim V. Fedorov

Whisker stimulation reinforces a resting-state network in the barrel cortex: Nested oscillations and avalanches

Benedetta Mariani, Ramón Guevara, Mattia Tambaro, Marta Maschietto, Alessandro Leparulo, Stefano Vassanelli, Samir Suweis

Cell-type-specific m1A dynamics are associated with microglial phenotypic transition and neuronal metabolic adaptation during spinal cord injury

Chi Zhang, Shaolong Li, Ruizhi Jiang, Heng Duan, Chuang Li, Enlin Qi, Mingxin Wu, Xueying Li, Shiqing Feng, Hengxing Zhou

The curriculum effect in visual learning: The role of readout dimensionality

Charlotte Volk, Christopher C. Pack, Shahab Bakhtiari

Network analysis of surface deformation reveals trunk modularity and synchronization during gait

Zilu Wang, Jingbang Yang, Yong Wang, Tiantong Wang, Heran Zhong, Fengchen Liu, Chenxi Zhang, Jiangtian Li, Rongli Wang, Ximing Xu, Jiangang Shi, Sunil K. Agrawal, Qining Wang

Single pulse electrical stimulation in white matter modulates iEEG visual responses in human early visual cortex

Harvey Huang, Kendrick N. Kay, Nicholas M. Gregg, Gabriela Ojeda Valencia, Myung-Ho In, Christoph Kapeller, Yunhong Shu, Gregory A. Worrell, Kai J. Miller, Dora Hermes

ALFAssay: A feed‑forward neural network for quantitative fragmentomics‑based ctDNA profiling in breast cancer

Alexandra Stanciu, Andrea Gombos, Elisa Agostinetto, Delphine Vincent, Laurence Buisseret, Andreas Papagiannis, Francoise Rothe, Nicola Occelli, Christos Sotiriou, David Venet, Michail Ignatiadis

Quantitative analysis of massive SARS-CoV-2 testing in the community in France in 2021–2022 reveals the associations of variant, vaccination, and age with viral dynamics in symptomatic individuals

Maxime Beaulieu, Nathanaël Hozé, Vincent Vieillefond, Timothée Goetschy, Gina Cosentino, François Blanquart, Florence Débarre, Jérémie Guedj

Revealing dichotomous prior biases in social anxiety through a social prism model

Yuxi Wang, Qianqian Ju, Renhe Jia, Minghao Yuan, Yujia Peng

Deciphering chromatin architecture and dynamics in Plasmodium falciparum using the nucDetective pipeline

Simon Holzinger, Leo Schmutterer, Victoria Marie Rothe, Maria Theresia Watzlowik, Uwe Schwartz, Gernot Längst

Reconstruction of historical malaria transmission in Senegal using multiplex serocatalytic models

Gaëlle Baudemont, Thomas Obadia, Laura Garcia, Camille Lambert, Françoise Donnadieu, Fatoumata Diene Sarr, Joseph Faye, Cheikh Sokhna, Inès Vigan-Womas, Aissatou Toure-Balde, Chris Drakeley, Makhtar Niang, Michael T. White

Body surface potential driven personalisation of electrophysiological digital twins in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Shambhavi Malik, Ludovica Cicci, Abdul Qayyum, Rahul Ghelani, Ji-jian Chow, Jagdeep Singh Mohal, Zachary I. Whinnett, Amanda Varnava, Gernot Plank, Prapa Kanagaratnam, Steven A. Niederer

Can neural networks model the human perception of geometric shapes?

Maxence Pajot, Théo Morfoisse, Mathias Sablé-Meyer, Yair Lakretz, Stanislas Dehaene

Remembering the “when”: Hebbian memory models for the time of past events

Johanni Brea, Alireza Modirshanechi, Georgios Iatropoulos, Wulfram Gerstner

Flexible navigation with neuromodulated cognitive maps

Krubeal Danieli, Mikkel Elle Lepperød

Necking of epithelial tissues with cellular topological transition

Yuan He, Shi-Lei Xue

Integrating chemical structures as treatments improves representations of microscopy images for morphological profiling

Yemin Yu, Emre Hayir, Neil Tenenholtz, Lester Mackey, Ying Wei, David Alvarez-Melis, Ava P. Amini, Alex X. Lu

Sleep slow oscillation emergence on the scalp as a renewal point process

Mahmoud Alipour, Sara C. Mednick, Paola Malerba

Computational insights on the interplay between electrotaxis and mechanotaxis

Pablo Sáez, Shardool Kulkarni, Custodio O. Nunes, Min Zhao, Elias H. Barriga

A parallel dual-stream state-space module for reliable and efficient biomedical relation extraction

Yaxun Jia, Zhu Yuan, Lian Zhu, Bing Han, Li Ren, Zuo-lin Xiang

Quantitative modelling of P-TEFb mediated CTD phosphorylation identifies local cooperativity

Aaron Callenbach, Domagoj Dorešić, Robert Düster, Vanessa Nakonecnij, Erika Dudkin, Matthias Geyer, Jan Hasenauer

Combining sampling and attractor dynamics in spiking models of head direction systems

Vojko Pjanovic, Jacob A. Zavatone-Veth, Paul Masset, Sander W. Keemink, Michele Nardin

A geometric-surface PDE model for cell-nucleus translocation through confinement

Francesca Ballatore, Anotida Madzvamuse, Cécile Jebane, Emmanuèle Helfer, Rachele Allena

In silico clinical trials of BiTE expression by oncolytic viruses reveal the impact of patient heterogeneity on dosage protocol

Adrianne L. Jenner, Robyn P. Araujo, Noa L. Levi, Guy Ungerechts, Christine E. Engeland, Johannes P. W. Heidbuechel

NLCD: A method to discover nonlinear causal relations among genes

Aravind Easwar, Manikandan Narayanan

Methods

Non-invasive mapping of the temporal processing hierarchy in the human visual cortex

Katharina Eickhoff, Arjan Hillebrand, Tomas Knapen, Maartje C. de Jong, Serge O. Dumoulin

Uncertainty-aware quantitative analysis of high-throughput live cell migration data

Simo Kitanovski, Shannon Conroy, Justin Sonneck, Lukas Claas, Madeleine Dorsch, Sebastian Urban, Jianxu Chen, Markus Kaiser, Barbara M. Grüner, Daniel Hoffmann

CellExLink: End-to-end cell-type recognition and normalization in biomedical text

Alimire Nabijiang, Leili Shahriyari

SynAPSeg: A novel dataset and image analysis framework for deep learning-based synapse detection and quantification

Pascal Schamber, Sahana Darbhamulla, Molly Boyer, Madison Pelletier, Helene Hartman, Olivia Friedman, Shiyu Zhang, Allison Blais, Seyun Oh, Haining Zhong, Alexei M. Bygrave

Software

cpm: A python library for theory-driven modelling in computational psychiatry

Lenard Dome, Frank H. Hezemans, Kenza Kadri, Ben J. Wagner, Andrew Webb, Tobias U. Hauser

TB-SERS analyzer: Analysis tool for tuberculosis prediction based on Raman spectroscopy with machine learning and convolutional neural network

Jukgarin Eisiri, Chadatan Juntagran, Kanwara Trisakul, Benjawan Kaewseekhao, Noppadon Nuntawong, Chakchai So-In, Kiatichai Faksri

ClusterApp to visualize, organize, and navigate metabolomics data

Vinicius Hansel Figueiredo da Costa, Pothuvilage Karunarathne, Tiago Cabral Borelli, Isabela Victorino da Silva Amatto, Matheus de Lima Ortega, Robert A. Quinn, Ricardo R. da Silva

htrSPRanalysis: An open source R package for expedited analysis of high-throughput binding kinetics data

Janice M. McCarthy, Kan Li, Georgia D. Tomaras, S. Moses Dennison