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Knight, James D. R., Bin Qian, David Baker, and Rashmi Kothary. Conservation, Variability and the Modeling of Active Protein Kinases. Public Library of Science (PLoS) ONE, October 3, 2007. Available online. URL http //www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2Fl 0.1371%2 FJournal.pone.0000982. Accessed May 28,2009. The researchers compared some of the 518 known human protein kinases, and introduced an algorithm that may become useful in predicting their structures. 

Public Library of Science (PLoS) (http //www.plos.org), a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world s scientific and medical hterature a public resource. One of their major initiatives is PLoS Biology, (htq) //biology.plosjonmals.org/perlserv/ request=index-html) a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by PLoS. 

Siegel talked about the Public Library of Science (PLoS) and its business model. This model involves recovering all of the costs of publication (including peer review, production through the on-line version, and all associated overhead costs) through up-front publication charges. Up-front charges are currently set at 1500 per submission. 

In addition, most publishing organizations require authors to begin their work with an abstract, which is subsequently entered into a database. Databases, using these abstracts and key words from the work, are then sold (although some are publicly available, e.g.. Public Library of Science [PLoS]) to commercial organizations (pharmaceutical companies, chemical producers, and so on) and universities. 

The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians dedicated to making scientific and medical information freely available to the public. Their journals... 

Depression, we are told over and over again, is a brain disease, a chemical imbalance that can be adjusted by antidepressant medication. In an informational brochure issued to inform the public about depression, the US National Institute for Mental Health tells people that depressive illnesses are disorders of the brain and adds that important neurotransmitters - chemicals that brain cells use to communicate - appear to be out of balance . This view is so widespread that it was even proffered by the editors of PLoS [Public Library of Science] Medicine in their summary that accompanied our article. Depression, they wrote, is a serious medical illness caused by imbalances in the brain chemicals that regulate mood , and they went on to say that antidepressants are supposed to work by correcting these imbalances. 

Violence Problems at the Interface of Medicine and Law , Public Library of Science Medicine (PLoS Med 3), no. 9 (2006) e372... 

PLOS Biology. San Francisco CA Public Library of Science. Monthly. ISSN 1544-9173. URL http //biology.plosjournals.org/ perlserv/ request=index-html issn= 1545-7885. Scope includes works of exceptional signiflcance in all areas of biological science, from molecules to ecosystems, including works at the interface with other disciplines, such as chemistry, medicine, and mathematics. 

PLOS Medicine. 2004-. San Francisco, CA Public Library of Science. Monthly, new articles published weekly. URL http // medicine.plosjoumals.org/perlserv/ request = index-html issn 1549-1676. PLOS is an open access international, modern. 

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Vivian Siegel described the Public Library of Science as a public charity with a mission to make the world s scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. A way to achieve this mission is to launch open-access journals. PLoS Biology was launched in 2003, PLoS Medicine in the fall of 2004. Publication is the final and often the only tangible product of research. In an electronic era, it is possible to think about pubhshing as service providing and assign a fixed cost to the value that publishers add. 

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