Natural Sciences

Natural sciences comprises the branches of science which aim to describe and understand the fundamental processes and phenomena that define our natural world, including both life sciences and physical sciences.

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461-480 of 5,380 ARTICLES
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.145790.2
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Re-sequencing of the complete chloroplast genome of Cinnamomum burmanni (Nees & T.Nees) Blume (Lauraceae) from Indonesia using MinION Oxford Nanopore Technologies
[version 2; peer review: 2 approved with reservations]
Peer Reviewers Hoang Dang Khoa Do; Jakub Sawicki
  • Funder
  • National Competitive Basic Research 2022-2023
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 21 May 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.150049.1
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Design of SARS-CoV-2 protein S peptides recognized by the most frequent HLA alleles in the Moroccan population using an immunoinformatics approach
[version 1; peer review: 1 not approved]
Peer Reviewers Gustavo Fioravanti Vieira
PUBLISHED 20 May 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.145486.1
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Negligible effects of read trimming on the accuracy of germline short variant calling in the human genome
[version 1; peer review: 2 approved with reservations]
Peer Reviewers Dharma Varapula; Xihao Li and Muqing Zhou
PUBLISHED 17 May 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.134465.2
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Spatiotemporal structure and composition of the microbial communities in hypersaline Lake Magadi, Kenya
[version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations, 1 not approved]
Peer Reviewers Marianne Haines; Srijak Bhatnagar; Cristiano Pedroso-Roussado; Addis Simachew
  • Funder
  • National Research Fund, Kenya
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 17 May 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.53858.2
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GARCOM: A user-friendly R package for genetic mutation counts
[version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
Peer Reviewers Ettore Mosca; Stephen M. Pederson; Tao Wang
  • Funder
  • National Institute of Aging
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 17 May 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.145060.1
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Aerodynamic performance enhancement of centrifugal compressor using numerical techniques
[version 1; peer review: 2 approved]
Peer Reviewers Juluru Sandeep; Ajith Raj Rajendran
PUBLISHED 17 May 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.147914.1
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Environmental reservoirs of multidrug-resistant pseudomonads in a geographical location in Kenya with high community-acquired infections
[version 1; peer review: 2 approved with reservations]
Peer Reviewers Manuela Oliveira; Balram Ji Omar
  • Funder
  • Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division (AFHSD), Global Emerging Infections Surveillance (GEIS) Branch
PUBLISHED 13 May 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.147663.1
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Towards a quality indicator for research data publications and research software publications – a vision from the Helmholtz Association
[version 1; peer review: 2 not approved]
Peer Reviewers Oliver Karras; Wilhelm Hasselbring and Shinhyung Yang
PUBLISHED 10 May 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.140226.3
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In vitro assessment and comparison of quality of alcohol-based hand rubs, pre- and peri-COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in Kenya
[version 3; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
Peer Reviewers Fred Tusabe; Sandry Kesuma; Kennedy Abuga
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 09 May 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.143485.1
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Effectiveness of Zygogramma bicolorata Pallister (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) on Parthenium weed (Parthenium hysterophorus) under greenhouse condition in Ethiopia
[version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
Peer Reviewers Invited
PUBLISHED 09 May 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.133517.3
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Exploring the moderating effects of SIRT1 and gene polymorphisms rs7895833 on the relationship between hemoglobin levels and physical frailty in elderly adults with comorbid chronic diseases: A moderated mediation analysis
[version 3; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
Peer Reviewers Ramu Manjula; Amit Singh; Made Putra Semadhi
  • Funder
  • Universitas Sumatera Utara
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 08 May 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.74416.2
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BASiCS workflow: a step-by-step analysis of expression variability using single cell RNA sequencing data
[version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]
Peer Reviewers Oliver M. Crook; Andrew McDavid; Michel S Naslavsky
  • Funders
  • Cancer Research UK
  • University of Edinburgh
  • European Molecular Biology Laboratory
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 07 May 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.147108.1
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A bibliometric analysis of the literature on goat breeding 
[version 1; peer review: 2 approved with reservations]
Peer Reviewers Glafiro Torres-Hernández and Jorge A. Maldonado-Jáquez; Nelly Kichamu
  • Funder
  • University of Limpopo granted the Open Access fees for this publication.
PUBLISHED 07 May 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.147631.1
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Analyzing a series of ligands against malaria through the application of molecular docking, molecular quantum similarity, and reactivity indices
[version 1; peer review: 1 not approved]
Peer Reviewers Tawanda Zininga
  • Funder
  • Tecnologico
PUBLISHED 02 May 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.127348.2
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CircSeqAlignTk: An R package for end-to-end analysis of RNA-seq data for circular genomes
[version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]
Peer Reviewers Eric Soler and Mohammad Salma; Xueyi Dong; Alexander Zelikovsky and Bikram Sahoo
  • Funder
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 30 Apr 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.124059.2
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LiftoffTools: a toolkit for comparing gene annotations mapped between genome assemblies
[version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
Peer Reviewers Adam Frankish; Mark Borodovsky
  • Funder
  • National Institutes of Health
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 29 Apr 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.142379.1
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Case Report: Marfan’s Syndrome with Neurofibromatosis Type-2
[version 1; peer review: 1 not approved]
Peer Reviewers Jaroslava Halper
PUBLISHED 25 Apr 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.144007.1
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Isolation and complete genome sequence of Aeromonas bacteriophage Gekk3-15
[version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
Peer Reviewers Ruben Avendaño-Herrera; Ben Temperton and Liam Boot-Handford; Reham M El Tarabili
  • Funders
  • Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
PUBLISHED 24 Apr 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.136445.1
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Studies on variability in mode of infection by the isolates of leaf pathogens isolated from diseased leaves of Musa paradisiaca from Uttar Dinajpur District
[version 1; peer review: 1 not approved]
Peer Reviewers Ying Wei Khoo
PUBLISHED 23 Apr 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.110605.1
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A review of common methods used in the analysis of human microbiome sequencing data
[version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 1 not approved]
Peer Reviewers Yi-Juan Hu; Christopher A. Lowry
  • Funder
  • National Human Genome Research Institute
PUBLISHED 23 Apr 2024
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