The Signaling Pathways Project is a multi-omics knowledgebase based upon public, manually curated transcriptomic and cistromic (ChIP-Seq) datasets involving genetic and small molecule manipulations of…
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Medicine & Health Cardiovascular DiseasesView Collection
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one cause of death and disability globally, with an estimated 17.7 million deaths from CVD in 2015. More than three-quarters of CVD deaths occur in low- and…
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Medicine & Health Dementia: Across the Lifespan & Around the GlobeView Collection
Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) estimates there will be over 131.5 million people living with dementia by 2050, as well as a shift in burden from the richest to poorest…
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Biology & Life Sciences Editor’s Picks: Cell BiologyView Collection
Cell biologists investigate fundamental aspects of life, from the basic building blocks of the cell to how cells grow, divide and interact with each other. In conjunction with the 2018 ASCB Meeting…
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Medicine & Health Traumatic InjuryView Collection
Traumatic injury has long been recognized as a neglected disease of extremely high burden. With this Special Issue, PLOS Medicine and guest editors Professor Karim Brohi and Dr Martin Schreiber…
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Computer & Information Sciences PLOS Computational Biology Benchmarking CollectionView Collection
Research in computational biology has given rise to a vast number of methods developed to solve scientific problems. For areas in which many approaches exist, researchers have a hard time deciding…
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channel MicrobiomeRead more
Microorganisms including bacteria, viruses and fungi comprise a vast variety of microbiomes – ranging from isolated streams in the Amazonian rainforest to…
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Medicine & Health Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention: Improving Quality, Efficiency, Cost Effectiveness, & Demand for Services during an Accelerated Scale-upView Collection
With new HIV infections in Sub-Saharan Africa occurring at a rate of 2.3 million each year, this new collection presents interim results from a large public health intervention of voluntary medical…
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Medicine & Health Editor’s Picks: Co-Infection in Tropical MedicineView Collection
Co-infection with more than one pathogen is a continuing challenge in global health, particularly in regions with multiple endemic infectious diseases. Direct and indirect interactions between…
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Biology & Life Sciences GLBIO 2017View Collection
The 12th Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference (GLBIO) 2017, organized by the GLBIO Consortium, aimed to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of research findings and methods in…
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Research Analysis & Policy Meta-Research: Sources of BiasView Collection
Meta-research, or the scientific study of research practices, aims to characterize existing standards and ultimately improve the quality and reliability of scientific research. We collect here…