Launching our newest Collection, these three articles aim to explain how to set up and administrate Core Facilities in order to make best use of the large selection of data and tools in the public domain.
- Investigating the Conformational Stability of Prion Strains through a Kinetic Replication Model
- Drug Discovery Using Chemical Systems Biology: Repositioning the Safe Medicine Comtan to Treat Multi-Drug and Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
- A Compact Representation of Drawing Movements with Sequences of Parabolic Primitives
- The Gene Ontology's Reference Genome Project: A Unified Framework for Functional Annotation across Species
- Exploring the Free Energy Landscape: From Dynamics to Networks and Back
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Ten Simple Rules for Choosing between Industry and Academia
One of the most significant decisions we face as scientists comes at the end of our formal education. Choosing between industry and academia is easy for some, incredibly fraught for others." In our latest "Ten Simple Rules" Editorial, David Searls offers guidance on this important choice.
Featured Research
What a Plant Sounds Like: The Statistics of Vegetation Echoes as Received by Echolocating Bats
Vegetation forms a major feature of the world revealed to bats by echolocation. In this article, Yovel et al. show that physical properties of different plants can explain features of the echoes received and that this information is optimized by the bats' sensory systems.
Quantitative Analysis of Mechanisms That Govern Red Blood Cell Age Structure and Dynamics during Anaemia
Nicholas J. Savill, William Chadwick & Sarah E. Reece (University of Edinburgh) test competing hypotheses about the nature of the mechanisms that govern the red blood cell population, which should further our understanding of diseases such as malaria.
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Taking the Lag out of Jet Lag through Model-Based Schedule Design
Dean, Forger & Klerman present a method of automatically determining the proper timing of light stimuli to offset the disruption caused by travel & shift work. This allows the body to reset the circadian clock to local time, encouraging a good night's sleep.
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