A field guide to cultivating computational biology.


Journal

PLoS biology
ISSN: 1545-7885
Titre abrégé: PLoS Biol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101183755

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
10 2021
Historique:
revised: 19 10 2021
pubmed: 8 10 2021
medline: 15 12 2021
entrez: 7 10 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Evolving in sync with the computation revolution over the past 30 years, computational biology has emerged as a mature scientific field. While the field has made major contributions toward improving scientific knowledge and human health, individual computational biology practitioners at various institutions often languish in career development. As optimistic biologists passionate about the future of our field, we propose solutions for both eager and reluctant individual scientists, institutions, publishers, funding agencies, and educators to fully embrace computational biology. We believe that in order to pave the way for the next generation of discoveries, we need to improve recognition for computational biologists and better align pathways of career success with pathways of scientific progress. With 10 outlined steps, we call on all adjacent fields to move away from the traditional individual, single-discipline investigator research model and embrace multidisciplinary, data-driven, team science.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34618807
doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001419
pii: PBIOLOGY-D-21-01193
pmc: PMC8525744
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

e3001419

Subventions

Organisme : NIGMS NIH HHS
ID : R01 GM126548
Pays : United States
Organisme : NHGRI NIH HHS
ID : R01 HG010067
Pays : United States
Organisme : NIGMS NIH HHS
ID : R35 GM122547
Pays : United States
Organisme : NCI NIH HHS
ID : U01 CA253403
Pays : United States

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Auteurs

Gregory P Way (GP)

Imaging Platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Center for Health AI, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America.

Casey S Greene (CS)

Center for Health AI, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America.

Piero Carninci (P)

RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.
Human Technopole, Milan, Italy.

Benilton S Carvalho (BS)

Department of Statistics, Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computing, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.

Michiel de Hoon (M)

RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.

Stacey D Finley (SD)

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Quantitative and Computational Biology, and Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.

Sara J C Gosline (SJC)

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.

Kim-Anh Lȇ Cao (KA)

Melbourne Integrative Genomics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

Jerry S H Lee (JSH)

Ellison Institute and Departments of Medicine/Oncology, Chemical Engineering, and Material Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.

Luigi Marchionni (L)

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill-Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America.

Nicolas Robine (N)

Computational Biology Lab, New York Genome Center, New York, New York, United States of America.

Suzanne S Sindi (SS)

Department of Applied Mathematics, University of California Merced, Merced, California, United States of America.

Fabian J Theis (FJ)

Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Center Munich and Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.

Jean Y H Yang (JYH)

Charles Perkins Centre and School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sydney, Australia.

Anne E Carpenter (AE)

Imaging Platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.

Elana J Fertig (EJ)

Convergence Institute, Departments of Oncology, Biomedical Engineering, and Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.

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