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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Computer & Information Sciences Stories from the Road: ISCB Student Council Collection
For the past 10 years the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Student Council has provided events and activities to help support and encourage young budding scientists. This article…
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Research Analysis & Policy Altmetrics
Altmetrics is the study and use of non-traditional scholarly impact measures that are based on activity in web-based environments. As scholarship increasingly moves online, these metrics track…
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Computer & Information Sciences The Roots of Bioinformatics
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…
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Biology & Life Sciences Public Engagement in Science
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…
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Medicine & Health The Geopolitics of Neglected Tropical Diseases
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…
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Biology & Life Sciences PLOS Pathogens & PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Twinning 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…
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Research Analysis & Policy Open Data
In the spirit of Open Con and highlighting the state of Open Data, PLOS is proud to release our Open Data Collection. In collaboration with our external advisor, Melissa Haendel, we have selected…
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Computer & Information Sciences Editors’ Outlook
The PLOS Computational Biology Editors' Outlook collection provides diverse mini reviews from members of the Editorial Board on their research areas, and includes discussions of new and future…
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Computer & Information Sciences Bioinformatics: Starting Early
Bioinformatics is being introduced into the school curriculum earlier and earlier as the field matures. PLOS Computational Biology's Education section introduces a new collection, Bioinformatics…
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Computer & Information Sciences Biocurators
The number and scope of scientific databases has soared in recent years, creating a new profession, the biocurator. These "museum catalogers of the Internet age" face a continuous struggle…