Biology Direct

Aims and scope

Biology Direct serves the life science research community as an author driven open peer review journal, providing authors and readers with an alternative to the traditional model of peer review.

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Eugene Koonin, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA

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Content type: Research
| 20 August 2019

Antibiotic resistance and metabolic profiles as functional biomarkers that accurately predict the geographic origin of city metagenomics samples

Authors: Carlos S. Casimiro-Soriguer, Carlos Loucera, Javier Perez Florido, Daniel López-López and Joaquin Dopazo
Content type: Opinion
| 20 August 2019

The role of synthetic biology in climate change mitigation

Authors: Charles DeLisi
Content type: Research
| 16 August 2019

Application of machine learning techniques for creating urban microbial fingerprints

Authors: Feargal Joseph Ryan
Content type: Research
| 1 August 2019

Massive metagenomic data analysis using abundance-based machine learning

Authors: Zachary N. Harris, Eliza Dhungel, Matthew Mosior and Tae-Hyuk Ahn
Content type: Research
| 24 July 2019

Identification of city specific important bacterial signature for the MetaSUB CAMDA challenge microbiome data

Authors: Alejandro R. Walker and Susmita Datta

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Content type: Hypothesis
| 2 July 2014

Midichlorians - the biomeme hypothesis: is there a microbial component to religious rituals?

Authors: Alexander Y Panchin, Alexander I Tuzhikov and Yuri V Panchin
Content type: Research
| 11 December 2008

The evolution of domain-content in bacterial genomes

Authors: Nacho Molina and Erik van Nimwegen
Content type: Hypothesis
| 24 August 2009

On the origin of life in the Zinc world: 1. Photosynthesizing, porous edifices built of hydrothermally precipitated zinc sulfide as cradles of life on Earth

Authors: Armen Y Mulkidjanian
Content type: Hypothesis
| 19 September 2006

The ancient Virus World and evolution of cells

Authors: Eugene V Koonin, Tatiana G Senkevich and Valerian V Dolja
Content type: Research
| 16 March 2006

A putative RNA-interference-based immune system in prokaryotes: computational analysis of the predicted enzymatic machinery, functional analogies with eukaryotic RNAi, and hypothetical mechanisms of action

Authors: Kira S Makarova, Nick V Grishin, Svetlana A Shabalina, Yuri I Wolf and Eugene V Koonin

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Proceedings of the CAMDA Satellite Meeting to ISMB 2018

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Answering the call for real-time plant disease diagnostics in resource-poor regions

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Extraordinarily ordinary: Mucus glands and mucus in the sticky toes of tree frogs

26 July 2019
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26 June 2019

Biology Direct

Aims and scope

Editor-in-Chief

Articles

Antibiotic resistance and metabolic profiles as functional biomarkers that accurately predict the geographic origin of city metagenomics samples

The role of synthetic biology in climate change mitigation

Application of machine learning techniques for creating urban microbial fingerprints

Massive metagenomic data analysis using abundance-based machine learning

Identification of city specific important bacterial signature for the MetaSUB CAMDA challenge microbiome data

Midichlorians - the biomeme hypothesis: is there a microbial component to religious rituals?

The evolution of domain-content in bacterial genomes

On the origin of life in the Zinc world: 1. Photosynthesizing, porous edifices built of hydrothermally precipitated zinc sulfide as cradles of life on Earth

The ancient Virus World and evolution of cells

A putative RNA-interference-based immune system in prokaryotes: computational analysis of the predicted enzymatic machinery, functional analogies with eukaryotic RNAi, and hypothetical mechanisms of action

Journal sections

Proceedings of the CAMDA Satellite Meeting to ISMB 2018

News from BioMed Central

Answering the call for real-time plant disease diagnostics in resource-poor regions

Extraordinarily ordinary: Mucus glands and mucus in the sticky toes of tree frogs

Red de Institutos Nacionales de Cancer de Latinoamérica RINC-ALC

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