Biology Direct

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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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Eugene Koonin, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA

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Content type: Research
| 3 September 2019

Gene connectivity and enzyme evolution in the human metabolic network

Authors: Begoña Dobon, Ludovica Montanucci, Juli Peretó, Jaume Bertranpetit and Hafid Laayouni
Content type: Research
| 23 August 2019

Integration of molecular features with clinical information for predicting outcomes for neuroblastoma patients

Authors: Yatong Han, Xiufen Ye, Chao Wang, Yusong Liu, Siyuan Zhang, Weixing Feng, Kun Huang and Jie Zhang
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

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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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World Alzheimer’s Month: Let’s talk about dementia to end the stigma

20 September 2019
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19 September 2019

Biology Direct

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Editor-in-Chief

Articles

Gene connectivity and enzyme evolution in the human metabolic network

Integration of molecular features with clinical information for predicting outcomes for neuroblastoma patients

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

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

Do you have an idea for a thematic series? Let us know!

Proceedings of the CAMDA Satellite Meeting to ISMB 2018

News from BioMed Central

Looking like the locals – gut microbiome changes post-release in the endangered Tasmanian devils

World Alzheimer’s Month: Let’s talk about dementia to end the stigma

Can fasting or pseudo-diabetes have a positive effect on aging and health?

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