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 Oceanic Metagenomics CollectionView Collection
The J. Craig Venter Institute's Global Ocean Sampling Expedition revealed an enormous amount of previously unexplored diversity in the world's oceans. In addition to the research articles, this…
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Medicine & Health Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention: New Mathematical Models for Prioritizing Sub-Populations by Age & GeographyView Collection
This PLOS Collection features new mathematical models that can help country decision-makers examine the potential effects of targeting sub-populations for voluntary medical male circumcision services…
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Medicine & Health Fortification AssessmentView Collection
The Fortification Assessment Coverage Toolkit (FACT) is a modular survey methodology developed by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition to assess population-based (i.e., staple foods and/or…
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Medicine & Health Epidemiological metrics for the HIV epidemicView Collection
Extraordinary progress has been made to halt and reverse the spread of HIV. However, there is still a long way to go to end the epidemic, as called for in the third Sustainable Development…
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Medicine & Health Flubendazole in OnchocerciasisView Collection
Treating onchocerciasis remains a challenge as no drug effectively kills the adult worms. A new orally bioavailable formulation of flubendazole was developed and tested to find out whether it could be…
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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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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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Biology & Life Sciences GIGA: Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance researchView Collection
GIGA is an international non-profit community of scientists dedicated to promoting genomics research of diverse non-model invertebrate species. Invertebrates comprise over 95% of all animal species…
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Biology & Life Sciences PLOS iGEM 2016View Collection
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…
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Medicine & Health Burden of Infectious Diseases in EuropeView Collection
The Burden of Communicable Diseases in Europe (BCoDE) aimed to estimate the burden of communicable diseases applying a pathogen and incidence based approach to estimating DALYs (Disability Adjusted…