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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Research Analysis & Policy Reporting GuidelinesView Collection
Reporting guidelines are statements intended to advise authors reporting research methods and findings. They can be presented as a checklist, flow diagram or text, and describe what is required to…
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Computer & Information Sciences Stories from the Road: ISCB Student Council CollectionView 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 AltmetricsView Collection
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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…