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 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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Medicine & Health Proceedings of Medicine XView Collection
The Stanford Medicine X program is a leading patient-centered conference on emerging technology and medicine. With aims to catalyze new ideas about the future of medicine and health care, the…
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Biology & Life Sciences Prokaryotic Genome CollectionView Collection
The Prokaryotic Genome Collection aims to present and highlight a number of important articles that describe whole genome sequence and/or comparative genomics of important prokaryotic organisms. We…
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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 Maternal Health Task Force – Year 2: Maternal Health is Women’s HealthView Collection
The theme, “Maternal health is women's health”, was created to highlight the importance of considering maternal health in the context of women's health throughout their lifespans. While…