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 The Human Microbiome ProjectView Collection
The healthy adult body hosts ten times as many microbial cells as human cells.The metagenome carried collectively by these microbial communities dwarfs the human genome in size, and their influences…
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Medicine & Health Real-Time Monitoring of Under-Five MortalityView Collection
In most low-income countries, Ministries of Health and their partners must rely on periodic household surveys as their primary population-level source of vital statistics. Recent initiatives around…
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Medicine & Health malERA – An updated research agenda for malaria elimination and eradicationView Collection
‘malERA Refresh’ is a forward-looking research and development agenda that accelerates progress towards malaria elimination and global eradication. The malERA Refresh special collection…
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Biology & Life Sciences PLOS iGEM 2015View Collection
The iGEM Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of synthetic biology through the development of open community and collaboration. These aims are shared by PLOS, whose mission is to advance…
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Medicine & Health malERA – A Research Agenda for Malaria EradicationView Collection
The Malaria Eradication Research Agenda (malERA) initiative complements existing research agendas, which are primarily aimed at reducing the global burden of morbidity and mortality due to malaria by…
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Earth & Environment Participatory Monitoring for Forests, Climate and REDD+View Collection
The studies in this PLOS ONE collection investigate community participation in measuring, reporting and verifying (PMRV) initiatives as a contribution to international, national and project level…
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Biology & Life Sciences RosettaCon 2014View Collection
The Rosetta macromolecular modeling software is a versatile, rapidly developing set of tools that are now being routinely utilized to address state-of-the-art research challenges in academia and…
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Biology & Life Sciences Epidemiological Investigations of North American Zoo Elephant WelfareView Collection
Our society has become increasingly interested in understanding how living in zoos affects animal well-being. This is particularly true for long-lived, socially-complex species such as elephants. This…
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Biology & Life Sciences The Global Burden of Norovirus & Prospects for Vaccine DevelopmentView Collection
Each year, norovirus causes over 200,000 deaths and a global economic burden of more than $60 billion. A highly contagious virus that most people will contract 5 times in their lifetime, the most…
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Biology & Life Sciences GLBIO/CCBC 2016 – Bioinformatics and Computational BiologyView Collection
The first joint Great Lakes Bioinformatics (GLBio) and the Canadian Computational Biology Conference 2016 (GLBIO/CCBC) took place in Toronto from May 16th to 19th. The conference was organized by the…