Reproducibility continues to be one of the major challenges facing computational biologists today. Complicated experiments, massive data sets, scantily described protocols, and…
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Aggregators The RosettaCon 2012 Collection: Rosetta Developers Meet the Challenges in Macromodeling Head On
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Article-Level Metrics PLOS ONE – Measuring Article Impact
A common misconception of PLOS ONE is that just because we don’t consider perceived impact or novelty when deciding what to publish…
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Images March Madness: PLOS ONE News and Blog Round-Up
For the month of March, a variety of papers caught the media’s attention, from distracting cell phone conversations, to the devastating decline…
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Creative re-use A geologist finds his way in a fossil forest (and makes a map for the rest of us)
The rich colors and textures of Petrified Forest National Park represent millions of years of geological time, climate change, and peculiar…
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Collections PLOS ONE Launches Reproducibility Initiative
PLOS ONE is pleased to announce a collaboration with Science Exchange and figshare in a groundbreaking new project: The Reproducibility Initiative. The…
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Open Access PLoS ONE: Five Years, Many Milestones
PLoS ONE is five years old today – warmest congratulations to everyone who makes this journal a success! On Friday, we celebrated our…
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Aggregators Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) – a cost-effective HIV prevention measure in eastern and southern Africa: a UNAIDS and PEPFAR collection
Editor’s note: Earlier this week, PLoS Medicine announced the publication of a sponsored Collection, in conjunction with the Joint United Nations Programme…
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Interviews The “responsible conduct of research” is not limited to properly obtained consent
Today we published the article,Willingness to Share Research Data Is Related to the Strength of the Evidence and the Quality of…
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Events “Why the net doesn’t work for science – and how to fix it” – A talk by Michael Nielsen at PLoS’s San Francisco HQ – June 29th at 6 pm.
Join PLoS staff and interested members of the public at 6 pm, June 29th 2011, for an informal wine, beer and cheese…
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Featured Image World Malaria Day: Research Highlights from PLoS ONE and PLoS Pathogens
Today is World Malaria Day —a time to reflect upon and commemorate the global efforts to fight this deadly mosquito-born disease found…
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Creative re-use Open Access Medical Publishing and Personalized Medicine
We are always happy to hear when scientists find creative ways to reuse PLoS ONE content, and we are pleased to share…
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Open Access Open Access to Development Data: The World Bank’s New Open Data Initiative
Guest blog by Meghan Reidy and Marco Schäferhoff, Evidence to Policy Initiative (E2Pi), San Francisco, USA. Also posted on the PLoS Medicine…