Description: In keeping with our primary mission of making the world’s scientific and medical literature a public resource, PLoS periodically publishes articles that explore the issues surrounding open access. Selected articles—collected from PLoS Biology
Description: This collection of papers highlights research performed under the auspices of the Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) program, a component of the Census of Marine Life (CoML). TOPP is a multi-institutional, multi-year large-scale biologging p
Description: he January 2012 issue of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases presents an Editorial, a Viewpoint, and two accompanying Expert Commentaries that focus on the application of genetically modified (GM) insects for control of animal and plant diseases
Description: This collection of articles represents some of the research highlights from the SGC (www.thesgc.org ). The SGC is an international public-private partnership that determines three dimensional structures of medically important proteins from bo
Description: 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 large, ~2200 sq km, with a 50 km fringing reef crest along the platform edge at an a
Description: In a joint venture between PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS ONE and the conference program committee, this collection draws together papers from the 6th Annual RECOMB Satellite on Regulatory Genomics and the 5th Annual RECOMB Satellite on Sys
Description: The History of Marine Animal Populations is a global research initiative to study the past ocean life and human interaction with the sea, and is part of the global Census of Marine Life. About 100 researchers have developed an interdisciplina
Description: This collection of papers highlights research performed under the auspices of the Natural Geography in Shore Areas (NaGISA) project, a component of the Census of Marine Life (CoML) program. NaGISA is a collaborative effort aimed at inventoryi
Description: This collection of papers highlights research performed under the auspices of the Future of Marine Animal Populations (FMAP) program, a component of the Census of Marine Life (CoML) (www.fmap.ca). The overarching goal of the FMAP program has
Description: This collection of papers presents research in the field of Marine Barcoding under the auspices of MarBOL: a joint effort of the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) and the Census of Marine Life (CoML) to enhance our capacity to identif
Description: The World Health Report 2012, the biannual flagship report of the World Health Organization, will focus for the first time in its history on the theme of research for better health. Decisions on healthcare are still made without a solid groun
Description: Epigenetics is the study of inherited changes in phenotype or gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence. This image represents the structure of a nucleosome. Nucleosomes are thought to carry epigen
Description: The Rosetta framework for macromolecular modeling, prediction and design is a widely used code (over 7,000 registered groups) with a large, dynamic developer community (over 200 members). The Rosetta community, which includes developers and u
Description: This sponsored collection of nine new articles, includes four reviews and five research articles, published in PLoS Medicine and PLoS ONE, in conjunction with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United States Presi
Description: This Collection contains those papers representing the output of the best performing methods of the DREAM3 challenges, which themselves were discussed and presented at the third DREAM (Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessment and Methods)
Description: DNA barcoding was proposed formally in 2003 as a technique for species diagnosis and identification using short standardized gene regions. Since then, it has grown from small cottage industry status to an international initiative. Currently
Description: The Census of Marine Life on Seamounts (CenSeam) was a 5 year research programme carried out under the umbrella of the Census of Marine Life. Its principal goal was to create an international network of scientists to address key research qu
Description: The Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking (POST) Program seeks to advance understanding of the movement and behavior of marine animals through the use of a large-scale acoustic telemetry and data management system. The telemetry system is composed of
Description: This collection of articles represents the output of a group of international research institutions (informally referred to as EUMOOD) who collaborated around the causal link between stress exposure and depression vulnerability.
Description: In 1959, William Russell and Rex Burch published the seminal book, The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique, which emphasized reduction, refinement, and replacement of animal use, principles which have since been referred to as the 3