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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Computer & Information Sciences Open Source Toolkit: Hardware
The Open Source Toolkit has migrated to PLOS Channels. PLEASE VISIT THE OPEN SOURCE TOOLKIT CHANNEL FOR THE LATEST OPEN SOURCE RESEARCH…
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Biology & Life Sciences RosettaCon 2014
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 Synthetic Biology: Software & Modeling
Synthetic Biology is an emerging, trans-disciplinary field at the intersection between many engineering and scientific disciplines such as biology, chemical engineering, chemistry, electrical…
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Biology & Life Sciences GLBIO/CCBC 2016 – Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
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…
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Computer & Information Sciences Focus Feature – Genome Landscapes and Phenotype Prediction of Disease
This Focus Feature led by Rachel Karchin and Ruth Nussinov highlights strategies to predict the phenotypic disease consequences of human germline and somatic variation. The rapid growth in genomic…
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Computer & Information Sciences Text Mining
Across all realms of the sciences, the rapid growth in the number of works published digitally presents new challenges and opportunities for making sense of this wealth of textual information. The…
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Computer & Information Sciences Focus Feature – Allostery: Concepts, Methods & Applications
This Focus Feature, led by Jin Liu and Ruth Nussinov, commemorates the 10th anniversary of PLOS Computational Biology and puts a spotlight on Allostery. The research included is a range of both new…
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Computer & Information Sciences Focus Feature – The Ethics of Big Data
With exciting new research opportunities comes the much needed consideration of ethical challenges. This Focus Feature, led by Philip E. Bourne, addresses the ethical challenges that accompany the use…
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Biology & Life Sciences RosettaCon 2012
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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Computer & Information Sciences Core Facilities
Biomedical research is benefiting from the wealth of new data generated in the laboratory through new instrumentation, greater computational resources, and massive repositories of public domain data…