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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Biology & Life Sciences EbolaView Collection
In response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, PLOS editors curated content from across the journals, PLOS Currents and the PLOS Blogs Network into a rapidly evolving collection of research…
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Biology & Life Sciences Open Highlights: Living Life on a MagnetView Collection
This Open Highlights collection examines recent research into the diverse ways in which living things interact with the Earth’s magnetic field and use it for orientation and navigation…
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Biology & Life Sciences Open Highlights: Wreaking Reproductive Havoc One Chemical at a TimeView Collection
This Open Highlights Collection explores recent research into the adverse effects of environmental synthetic chemicals on development and reproduction…
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Computer & Information Sciences Focus Feature – Genome Landscapes and Phenotype Prediction of DiseaseView Collection
This Focus Feature led by Rachel Karchin and Ruth Nussinov highlights strategies to predict the phenotypic disease consequences of human germline and somatic variation. The rapid growth in genomic…
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Computer & Information Sciences Text MiningView Collection
Across all realms of the sciences, the rapid growth in the number of works published digitally presents new challenges and opportunities for making sense of this wealth of textual information. The…
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Biology & Life Sciences Editor’s Picks: Uncovering Evolutionary Patterns in the Tree of LifeView Collection
Since the conception of the theory of evolution through natural selection by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, evolutionary biology has become central to our understanding of the natural…
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Computer & Information Sciences Focus Feature – Allostery: Concepts, Methods & ApplicationsView Collection
This Focus Feature, led by Jin Liu and Ruth Nussinov, commemorates the 10th anniversary of PLOS Computational Biology and puts a spotlight on Allostery. The research included is a range of both new…
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Computer & Information Sciences Focus Feature – The Ethics of Big DataView Collection
With exciting new research opportunities comes the much needed consideration of ethical challenges. This Focus Feature, led by Philip E. Bourne, addresses the ethical challenges that accompany the use…
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Medicine & Health Health Consequences of the Asian TsunamiView Collection
In order to revisit the health consequences of the Asian tsunami of December 2004 six months on, PLOS Medicine commissioned a collection of Magazine articles that were published in April 2005. We…
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Medicine & Health Water and SanitationView Collection
This four-part series on water and sanitation leads with an article by Jamie Bartram and Sandy Cairncross who argue that the massive burden of ill health associated with poor hygiene, sanitation and…