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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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Breath-giving cooperation: critical review of origin of mitochondria hypotheses

István Zachar and Eörs Szathmáry

Published on: 14 August 2017
Research

Cell adhesion heterogeneity reinforces tumour cell dissemination: novel insights from a mathematical model

David Reher, Barbara Klink, Andreas Deutsch and Anja Voss-Böhme

Published on: 11 August 2017
Research

EMQIT: a machine learning approach for energy based PWM matrix quality improvement

Karolina Smolinska and Marcin Pacholczyk

Published on: 1 August 2017
Research

Bacterial tail anchors can target to the mitochondrial outer membrane

Güleycan Lutfullahoğlu-Bal, Abdurrahman Keskin, Ayşe Bengisu Seferoğlu and Cory D. Dunn

Published on: 24 July 2017
Discovery Notes

Computational prediction of lncRNA-mRNA interactions by integrating tissue specificity in human transcriptome

Junichi Iwakiri, Goro Terai and Michiaki Hamada

Published on: 8 June 2017

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Hypothesis

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

Alexander Y Panchin, Alexander I Tuzhikov and Yuri V Panchin

Published on: 2 July 2014
Research

The evolution of domain-content in bacterial genomes

Nacho Molina and Erik van Nimwegen

Published on: 11 December 2008
Hypothesis

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

Armen Y Mulkidjanian

Published on: 24 August 2009
Hypothesis

The ancient Virus World and evolution of cells

Eugene V Koonin, Tatiana G Senkevich and Valerian V Dolja

Published on: 19 September 2006
Review

Bioinformatics clouds for big data manipulation

Lin Dai, Xin Gao, Yan Guo, Jingfa Xiao and Zhang Zhang

Published on: 28 November 2012

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The curious case of the color-changing slug

Published on: 18 August 2017
Space invaders: the challenges of studying microbes in space

Published on: 11 August 2017
Editing embryos – Could you? Would you? Should you? Views from Genetic Counsellors

Published on: 04 August 2017

Editors-in-Chief

Eugene Koonin, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA
David Lipman, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA

Proceedings of the CAMDA Satellite Meeting to ISMB 2015

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Evolution and cancer: A mathematical approach II

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New section: Cell biology

Biology Direct is now welcoming submissions to our new cell biology section.

Edited by Luca Pellegrini