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 Marine Megafauna: Paleoecology Evolution and Systematics
These papers address important aspects about the evolutionary and ecological history of marine fauna from geological to historical timescales, including taxonomically focused…
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Biology & Life Sciences Up For A Challenge (U4C) – Stimulating Innovation in Breast Cancer Genetic Epidemiology
Breast cancer remains a major public health problem, with more than 250,000 new cases and 40,000 deaths estimated to occur in women in the U.S. in 2017. In 2015, the National Cancer Institute (NCI…
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Biology & Life Sciences Tsetse Genome Biology
Tsetse flies are important vectors of human and animal diseases that adversely impact life in sub-Sahara Africa. A community of tsetse researchers (International Glossina Genome Initiative) have been…
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Biology & Life Sciences Marine Megafauna: Marine Habitats and Conservation Biology
This section of the Marine Megafauna collection focuses on species/habitat relationships of large marine organisms and provides specific examples of the conservation issues associated with some of the…
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Biology & Life Sciences Structural Biology & Human Health: Medically Relevant Proteins from the SGC
This collection of articles represents some of the research highlights from the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC). The SGC is an international public-private partnership that determines three…
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Biology & Life Sciences Sauropod Gigantism: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach
Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest terrestrial animals to roam the Earth, exceeding all other land-dwelling vertebrates in both mean and maximal body size. While convergently evolving many features…
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Biology & Life Sciences Biodiversity of Saba Bank
Saba Bank is the largest submarine atoll in the Atlantic Ocean, adjacent to the nearby island of Saba, in the Netherlands Antilles. The submerged platform is ~2200 sq km, with a 50 km fringing reef…
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Biology & Life Sciences RECOMB Regulatory Genomics and Systems Biology 2009
In a joint venture between PLOS and the conference program committee, this collection draws together papers from the 6th Annual RECOMB Satellite on Regulatory Genomics and the 5th Annual RECOMB…
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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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Biology & Life Sciences Marine Megafauna: Social and Behavioral Ecology
This section of the Marine Megafauna collection provides examples of studies focused on the social and behavioral ecology of large marine organisms, highlighting how scientists study the complex…