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
| 9 May 2019

Associating expression and genomic data using co-occurrence measures

Authors: Maarten Larmuseau, Lieven P. C. Verbeke and Kathleen Marchal
Content type: Research
| 3 May 2019

MDA19, a novel CB2 agonist, inhibits hepatocellular carcinoma partly through inactivation of AKT signaling pathway

Authors: Mei Rao, Dongfeng Chen, Peng Zhan and Jianqing Jiang
Content type: Research
| 29 April 2019

Robust pathway-based multi-omics data integration using directed random walks for survival prediction in multiple cancer studies

Authors: So Yeon Kim, Hyun-Hwan Jeong, Jaesik Kim, Jeong-Hyeon Moon and Kyung-Ah Sohn
Content type: Research
| 15 April 2019

Revealing the dominant long noncoding RNAs responding to the infection with Colletotrichum gloeosporioides in Hevea brasiliensis

Authors: Hongyan Yin, Xiaodong Zhang, Bei Zhang, Hongli Luo and Chaozu He
Content type: Research
| 11 April 2019

A high-performance approach for predicting donor splice sites based on short window size and imbalanced large samples

Authors: Ying Zeng, Hongjie Yuan, Zheming Yuan and Yuan Chen

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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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How multilingualism alters multisensory perception

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Undocumented biodiversity of marine Oomycota is found in the Arctic

20 June 2019

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Aims and scope

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Articles

Associating expression and genomic data using co-occurrence measures

MDA19, a novel CB2 agonist, inhibits hepatocellular carcinoma partly through inactivation of AKT signaling pathway

Robust pathway-based multi-omics data integration using directed random walks for survival prediction in multiple cancer studies

Revealing the dominant long noncoding RNAs responding to the infection with Colletotrichum gloeosporioides in Hevea brasiliensis

A high-performance approach for predicting donor splice sites based on short window size and imbalanced large samples

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

Red de Institutos Nacionales de Cancer de Latinoamérica RINC-ALC

How multilingualism alters multisensory perception

Undocumented biodiversity of marine Oomycota is found in the Arctic

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