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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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Differentially expressed tRFs in CD5 positive relapsed & refractory diffuse large B cell lymphoma and the bioinformatic analysis for their potential clinical use

Authors: Qingyuan Qu, Ying Li, Xiaosheng Fang, Lingyan Zhang, Chao Xue, Xueling Ge, Xin Wang and Yujie Jiang

Content type: Research

27 November 2019
A novel framework for horizontal and vertical data integration in cancer studies with application to survival time prediction models

Authors: Iliyan Mihaylov, Maciej Kańduła, Milko Krachunov and Dimitar Vassilev

Content type: Research

21 November 2019
mPies: a novel metaproteomics tool for the creation of relevant protein databases and automatized protein annotation

Authors: Johannes Werner, Augustin Géron, Jules Kerssemakers and Sabine Matallana-Surget

Content type: Application note

14 November 2019
Environmental metagenome classification for constructing a microbiome fingerprint

Authors: Jolanta Kawulok, Michal Kawulok and Sebastian Deorowicz

Content type: Research

13 November 2019
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

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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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From spider males and their allegedly numb genitalia

09 December 2019
MinION: Democratising biodiversity research by misusing a portable long-read sequencer for short-read barcoding

04 December 2019
Genomic study of tubeworms reveals clues on how species adapt to extreme deep-sea environments

19 November 2019

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Editor-in-Chief

Articles

Differentially expressed tRFs in CD5 positive relapsed & refractory diffuse large B cell lymphoma and the bioinformatic analysis for their potential clinical use

A novel framework for horizontal and vertical data integration in cancer studies with application to survival time prediction models

mPies: a novel metaproteomics tool for the creation of relevant protein databases and automatized protein annotation

Environmental metagenome classification for constructing a microbiome fingerprint

Fingerprinting cities: differentiating subway microbiome functionality

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

From spider males and their allegedly numb genitalia

MinION: Democratising biodiversity research by misusing a portable long-read sequencer for short-read barcoding

Genomic study of tubeworms reveals clues on how species adapt to extreme deep-sea environments

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