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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Aggregators Heating up the Science Behind PLOS’ New Climate Change Collection
From penguin colonies in Antarctica, to California birds and North Carolina bugs, this month PLOS ONE focuses on the far-reaching aspects of…
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Aggregators Coffee Plants Don’t Like It Hot
Guest blogger Atreyee Bhattacharya is a science correspondent and climate scientist, currently a research affiliate at the Department of Earth and Planetary…
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Collections Announcing the Ecological Impacts of Climate Change Collection
Post authored by Collection Curator Ben Bond-Lamberty The ecological impacts of climate change are broad and diverse, and include alterations to species&rsquo…
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Aggregators Announcing the PLOS Text Mining Collection
Post authored by Casey M. Bergman, Lawrence E. Hunter, Andrey Rzhetsky Text Mining is an interdisciplinary field combining techniques from linguistics, computer science…
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Author Spotlight Meet Vectidraco, a European pterosaur the size of a crow
Fossil records show that pterosaurs of all sizes and shapes flew through the skies of China and Central Asia about 145 to…
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Aggregators Announcing the World Register of Marine Species Collection
The ocean teems with millions of plants, animals and other organisms, and keeping track of this vast inventory can be quite a…
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Article-Level Metrics Announcing the Altmetrics Collection
With the increasing use of Web 2.0 tools in scientific publishing and discussion, there is growing concern that scholarly output may be…
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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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Collections PLoS ONE launches the NeuroMapping & Therapeutics Collection
The following blog is by Babak Kateb, curator of the PLoS ONE NeuroMapping & Therapeutics Collection One of the great challenges of…
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Aggregators Announcing the Human Microbiome Project Collection
For the first time, a consortium of researchers has mapped the full community of microbes that inhabit various parts of the healthy…
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Aggregators PLoS ONE Launches the Mice Drawer System Experiment Collection
In August 2009, the Italian Space Agency launched its Mice Drawer System (MDS) investigation on the Shuttle Discovery flight 17A/STS-128. Over the…