Editorial Moving Education Forward, Again!

Educating biologists and computational biologists in methods and analyses is an ever-growing challenge. The amount of data and tools available to the scientific community continue to grow, and with that, there is a growing need to teach how to get the most out of this information. The PLOS Computational Biology Education section was launched in January 2006 [1] to address this challenge, with the first contribution published in April of that year [2]. In these past eight years, we have published more than 50 Education articles on different topics and have started two specialized Education collections: ‘‘Bioin-formatics: Starting Early’ ’ [3], which addresses the needs of teaching bioinfor-matics at the secondary school level, and the first PLOS online textbook, ‘‘Transla-tional Bioinformatics’ ’ [4]. After eight years in the role of editor of this section, I have decided that it is time to step aside to allow fresh ideas to be introduced into building the Education section and new directions to be followed as our science continues to mature. I am delighted that Francis Ouellette (Ontari