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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Fingerprinting cities: differentiating subway microbiome functionality

Authors: Chengsheng Zhu, Maximilian Miller, Nick Lusskin, Yannick Mahlich, Yanran Wang, Zishuo Zeng and Yana Bromberg

Content type: Research

30 October 2019
Retrotransposon gag-like 1 (RTL1) and the molecular evolution of self-targeting imprinted microRNAs

Authors: Avantika Mainieri and David Haig

Content type: Research

22 October 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

3 September 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

23 August 2019
The role of synthetic biology in climate change mitigation

Authors: Charles DeLisi

Content type: Opinion

20 August 2019

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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: Hypothesis

2 July 2014
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

24 August 2009
The evolution of domain-content in bacterial genomes

Authors: Nacho Molina and Erik van Nimwegen

Content type: Research

11 December 2008
The ancient Virus World and evolution of cells

Authors: Eugene V Koonin, Tatiana G Senkevich and Valerian V Dolja

Content type: Hypothesis

19 September 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

Content type: Research

16 March 2006

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Proceedings of the CAMDA Satellite Meeting to ISMB 2018

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Read our collection of this year's CAMDA proceedings, edited by David P Kreil, Paweł P Labaj and Joaquin Dopazo.

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Ensuring safe drinking water in Rohingya camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

04 November 2019
Looking like the locals – gut microbiome changes post-release in the endangered Tasmanian devils

03 October 2019
World Alzheimer’s Month: Let’s talk about dementia to end the stigma

20 September 2019

Biology Direct

Aims and scope

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Articles

Fingerprinting cities: differentiating subway microbiome functionality

Retrotransposon gag-like 1 (RTL1) and the molecular evolution of self-targeting imprinted microRNAs

Gene connectivity and enzyme evolution in the human metabolic network

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

The role of synthetic biology in climate change mitigation

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

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 evolution of domain-content in bacterial genomes

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

Ensuring safe drinking water in Rohingya camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

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

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