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…
-
Biology & Life Sciences The TOPP CollectionView Collection
This collection of papers highlights research performed under the auspices of the Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) program, a component of the Census of Marine Life. TOPP is a multi-institutional…
-
Biology & Life Sciences Public Engagement in ScienceView Collection
Over the past few decades, numerous initiatives have sought to engage members of the public in decisions concerning life sciences research and biotechnologies as early as possible in their development…
-
Biology & Life Sciences RECOMB Regulatory Genomics and Systems Biology 2009View Collection
In a joint venture between PLOS and the conference program committee, this collection draws together papers from the 6th Annual RECOMB Satellite on Regulatory Genomics and the 5th Annual RECOMB…
-
Computer & Information Sciences Conference PostcardsView Collection
Conference Postcards are designed to vividly recount to those not at a conference what happened at the event that was scientifically noteworthy. Postcards aim to be a departure from routine conference…
-
Computer & Information Sciences The Roots of BioinformaticsView Collection
This collection of essays from prominent workers in the field of bioinformatics relates how selected scientific, technological, economic, and even cultural threads came to influence the development of…
-
Medicine & Health The Geopolitics of Neglected Tropical DiseasesView Collection
To commemorate the 5th Anniversary of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (PLOS NTDs), we are releasing a collection focusing on geographic perspectives on the global burden of the neglected tropical…
-
Biology & Life Sciences PLOS Pathogens & PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Twinning CollectionView Collection
PLOS Pathogens and PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases present a collection of primary research articles on topics spanning these sister journals, including: proteomics, kinetoplastids, insect vectors…
-
Medicine & Health Disease MongeringView Collection
To mark the first academic meeting on disease mongering (the "selling of sickness" in order to promote drug sales), which was held in Newcastle, Australia in April 2006, and to help provoke…
-
Medicine & Health Are Drug Companies Living Up to Their Human Rights Responsibilities? Three ViewpointsView Collection
In September 2010, the PLOS Medicine Debate asked whether drug companies are living up to their human rights responsibilities. Sofia Gruskin and Zyde Raadfrom the Harvard School of Public Health say…
-
Medicine & Health Ghostwriting CollectionView Collection
Ghostwriting occurs when someone has made substantial contributions to writing a manuscript but this role is unacknowledged. In medicine, ghostwriting is problematical because it often involves…