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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Medicine & Health Sub-Saharan Africa’s Mothers, Newborns and ChildrenView Collection
In June and July 2010, PLOS Medicine published a series of articles on maternal, newborn, and child health in sub-Saharan Africa. The series provides a snapshot of the health and causes of death among…
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Medicine & Health Child Mortality Estimation MethodsView Collection
Millennium Development Goal 4 calls for a reduction of two-thirds in the under-5 mortality rate between 1990 and 2015. Reliable estimates of child mortality are critical to the monitoring of progress…
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Biology & Life Sciences The Genome Network Project/FANTOM3 CollectionView Collection
The Genome Network Project/FANTOM3 collection features articles describing findings that redefine the landscape of the mammalian transcriptome by introducing an extensive collection of novel cDNAs and…
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Biology & Life Sciences 2009 Maize Genome CollectionView Collection
The authors of the research presented in this special collection used the first description of the B73 maize genome to probe some of the most intriguing questions in genetics and plant biology. Read…
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Medicine & Health PLOS & DNDi: A Decade of OA & R&DView Collection
In 2013, PLOS and DNDi (Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative) celebrate their 10th Anniversaries: a decade of Open Access publishing and a decade of research and development for drugs for neglected…
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Medicine & Health Focus on Delivery & Scale: Achieving HIV Impact with Sex WorkersView Collection
The burden of HIV is heavily disproportionate in sex workers, where the high rates of partner change and their vulnerability increase the likelihood of sexual transmitted infections. This collection…
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Medicine & Health Big FoodView Collection
The PLOS Medicine series on Big Food aims to examine and stimulate debate about the activities and influence of the food industry in global health. We define “Big Food” as the…
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Medicine & Health Evaluating eHealthView Collection
In Fall 2009 PLOS Medicine published a three part series examining the emergence of eHealth—the use of electronic tools in delivering health care—and its benefits and challenges…
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Biology & Life Sciences RosettaCon 2012View Collection
The Rosetta macromolecular modeling, prediction, and design software suite is supported by a large developer community and enjoys a diverse user base. Each year Rosetta developers and users from…
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Medicine & Health Investigating the Impact of Treatment on New HIV InfectionsView Collection
The HIV Modelling Consortium aims to strengthen the support that mathematical modelling and related quantitative disciplines can provide to global decision-making in HIV. In November 2011 the HIV…