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 Animal Welfare
Humans have a responsibility to ensure that animals under their care are treated with respect and dignity. Research on animal welfare is crucial to improve the quality of life experienced by animals…
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Biology & Life Sciences Stable Isotopes
The use of stable isotopes as an analytical tool has been invaluable for a wide variety of scientific disciplines. Researchers in fields ranging from palaeooceanography to anthropology have utilized…
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Computer & Information Sciences Improving Reproducibility of Computational Models
The reproducibility of the research is a crucial element to keep science moving forward…
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Medicine & Health Emerging therapies in mental health
In this curated collection we highlight a range of novel evidence-based approaches to mental health by bringing together diverse perspectives from pharmacology, psychology, psychiatry, and…
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Computer & Information Sciences Affective Computing and Human-Computer Interactions
The study and design of devices that can recognize and simulate humane effects as well as improve the way different people interact with different interfaces is inherently multidisciplinary and…
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Earth & Environment Tropical Agriculture
In this collection, we present a selection of PLOS articles representative of the innovative agricultural research taking place in tropical countries and driving forward the development of…
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Earth & Environment Ocean Sciences
Over the past decade, critical insights and advances have been made in the field of Ocean Sciences. From the use of eDNA barcoding, to investigations of ocean microplastics and studies of the effect…
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collection Confronting Plastic Pollution to Protect Environmental and Public Health
Nearly 50 years after researchers first found specs of plastic floating in the Atlantic Ocean, microplastics are everywhere. In this collection, our expert editors have compiled evidence-based…
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collection Human Genetic Admixture
Throughout human history, large-scale migrations have facilitated the formation of populations with ancestry from multiple previously separated populations. This process leads to subsequent shuffling…
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Biology & Life Sciences Editor’s Picks: Chemical Tools & Probes
Small molecules that allow us to observe and manipulate biological systems by targeting and binding to specific targets are powerful tools in the field of Chemical Biology. These probes can inhibit a…