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Building on a strong legacy of pioneering innovation, PLOS continues to be a catalyst, reimagining models to meet open science principles, removing barriers and promoting inclusion in knowledge creation and sharing, and publishing research outputs that enable everyone to learn from, reuse and build upon scientific knowledge.

We believe in a better future where science is open to all, for all.

Biology & Life Sciences

PLOS iGEM 2016

Partnered Collections, Special Issues

The iGEM Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of synthetic biology through the development of open community and collaboration. These aims are shared by PLOS, whose mission is to advance scientific communication and peer review through increased openness and sharing. In the second year of our project with iGEM, PLOS teamed up with Biotreks, the synthetic biology journal specifically for high schools, to hold a live online peer review event, where teams were encouraged to review each other’s work in real time. The teams then revised their work in line with the live peer review event comments, and either submitted an iGEM Report, or made a full PLOS ONE submission.

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About the Project
Research Articles
iGEM Reports
The iGEM Competition

Find out more about the iGEM Competition, including information about iGEM 2017.

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