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Overcoming financial limitations in global volcano monitoring

2021-04-07T00:00

Equitable partnerships among the international volcano science community are important now more than ever, to cope with financial disparities and ultimately allow for worldwide volcano monitoring oriented to hazard mitigation.

How PLOS Biology aims to foster diversity, equity and inclusion in science

2021-03-09T00:00

A diverse scientific community is not only fairer but also improves science overall by bringing a richer range of perspectives to the research enterprise. Here, we discuss steps that PLOS Biology is taking to support diversity, equity and inclusion at the journal and beyond.

Ten simple rules for hosting artists in a scientific lab

2021-02-25T00:00

Ten simple rules for writing compelling recommendation letters

2021-02-25T00:00

Ten simple rules for getting started with command-line bioinformatics

2021-02-18T00:00

Ten simple rules for navigating the computational aspect of an interdisciplinary PhD

2021-02-18T00:00

Ten simple rules for starting (and sustaining) an academic data science initiative

2021-02-18T00:00

Ten simple rules for running and managing virtual internships

2021-02-18T00:00

On the open-source landscape of PLOS Computational Biology

2021-02-11T00:00

Could Renin-Angiotensin System Inhibitors Be Protective From Severe COVID-19?

2021-02-11T00:00

Ten simple rules for engaging with artificial intelligence in biomedicine

2021-02-11T00:00

The urgent need to vaccinate dialysis patients against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2: a call to action

2021-02-12T00:00

COVID-19 biosensing technologies

2021-01-28T00:00

Ten simple rules for tackling your first mathematical models: A guide for graduate students by graduate students

2021-01-14T00:00

Microbiome or no microbiome: are we looking at the prenatal environment through the right lens?

2021-01-12T00:00

Regarding mentorship

2020-12-21T00:00

The publication of a paper on mentorship, now retracted, led us to reflect on our editorial processes and strengthened our determination in supporting diversity, equity and inclusion in research.

MBE Emerging Classics 2021

2020-12-23T00:00

The 2021 Nucleic Acids Research database issue and the online molecular biology database collection

2020-12-23T00:00

The 2021 Nucleic Acids Research database Issue contains 189 papers spanning a wide range of biological fields and investigation. It includes 89 papers reporting on new databases and 90 covering recent changes to resources previously published in the Issue. A further ten are updates on databases most recently published elsewhere. Seven new databases focus on COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 and many others offer resources for studying the virus. Major returning nucleic acid databases include NONCODE, Rfam and RNAcentral. Protein family and domain databases include COG, Pfam, SMART and Panther. Protein structures are covered by RCSB PDB and dispersed proteins by PED and MobiDB. In metabolism and signalling, STRING, KEGG and WikiPathways are featured, along with returning KLIFS and new DKK and KinaseMD, all focused on kinases. IMG/M and IMG/VR update in the microbial and viral genome resources section, while human and model organism genomics resources include Flybase, Ensembl and UCSC Genome Browser. Cancer studies are covered by updates from canSAR and PINA, as well as newcomers CNCdatabase and Oncovar for cancer drivers. Plant comparative genomics is catered for by updates from Gramene and GreenPhylDB. The entire Database Issue is freely available online on the Nucleic Acids Research website (https://academic.oup.com/nar). The NAR online Molecular Biology Database Collection has been substantially updated, revisiting nearly 1000 entries, adding 90 new resources and eliminating 86 obsolete databases, bringing the current total to 1641 databases. It is available at https://www.oxfordjournals.org/nar/database/c/.