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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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Content type: Research
| 22 May 2018

Unraveling bacterial fingerprints of city subways from microbiome 16S gene profiles

Authors: Alejandro R. Walker, Tyler L. Grimes, Somnath Datta and Susmita Datta
Content type: Research
| 9 May 2018

Profiling microbial strains in urban environments using metagenomic sequencing data

Authors: Moreno Zolfo, Francesco Asnicar, Paolo Manghi, Edoardo Pasolli, Adrian Tett and Nicola Segata
Content type: Research
| 9 May 2018

Use of designed sequences in protein structure recognition

Authors: Gayatri Kumar, Richa Mudgal, Narayanaswamy Srinivasan and Sankaran Sandhya
Content type: Discovery notes
| 27 April 2018

Conservation of the separase regulatory domain

Authors: Michael Melesse, Joshua N. Bembenek and Igor B. Zhulin
Content type: Research
| 20 April 2018

MEGAN-LR: new algorithms allow accurate binning and easy interactive exploration of metagenomic long reads and contigs

Authors: Daniel H. Huson, Benjamin Albrecht, Caner Bağcı, Irina Bessarab, Anna Górska, Dino Jolic and Rohan B. H. Williams

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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
| 3 January 2011

The advantages and disadvantages of horizontal gene transfer and the emergence of the first species

Authors: Aaron A Vogan and Paul G Higgs

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David Lipman, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA

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Unraveling bacterial fingerprints of city subways from microbiome 16S gene profiles

Profiling microbial strains in urban environments using metagenomic sequencing data

Use of designed sequences in protein structure recognition

Conservation of the separase regulatory domain

MEGAN-LR: new algorithms allow accurate binning and easy interactive exploration of metagenomic long reads and contigs

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

The advantages and disadvantages of horizontal gene transfer and the emergence of the first species

Editors-in-Chief

Proceedings of the CAMDA Satellite Meeting to ISMB 2015

Journal sections

News from BioMed Central

The pace of evolution in domestication

Culture vs. conservation: the murky waters of the marine turtle trade

Leading scientists of the future at the European Conference on Fungal Genetics

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