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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
| 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
Content type: Review
| 26 February 2019

Genome and pan-genome analysis to classify emerging bacteria

Authors: Aurélia Caputo, Pierre-Edouard Fournier and Didier Raoult
Content type: Research
| 13 February 2019

Integrative analysis based on survival associated co-expression gene modules for predicting Neuroblastoma patients’ survival time

Authors: Yatong Han, Xiufen Ye, Jun Cheng, Siyuan Zhang, Weixing Feng, Zhi Han, Jie Zhang and Kun Huang
Content type: Hypothesis
| 23 January 2019

From tumors to species: a SCANDAL hypothesis

Authors: A. Y. Panchin, V. V. Aleoshin and Y. V. Panchin

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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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