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PLOS Currents removes barriers to communication and exchange in the following ways:

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• Huntington Disease (produced with support from CHDI Foundation)

PLOS Currents: Huntington Disease considers all aspects of research into Huntington disease. Topics include (but are not limited to) molecular and cell biology; genetics and genomics; animal models; behavioural, translational and clinical research.

• Muscular Dystrophy (produced with support from Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy)

PLOS Currents: Muscular Dystrophy considers submissions relevant specifically to Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and other muscular dystrophies. Topics include molecular and cell biology; genetics and genomics; animal models; behavioural, translational and clinical research; pathogenetic mechanisms; and experimental therapeutics.

• Disasters

PLOS Currents: Disasters considers any content relevant to disasters—natural or manmade, local, regional or global. Possible topics include: description of disasters; effects of disasters on the environment or on human populations; immediate management of disasters, both environmental and clinical; disaster risk management; disaster risk reduction; follow up of disasters, short and long term; implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015.Specific article types may include case studies, surveys, or other research (clinical, environmental, etc.) of previous or ongoing disasters; analyses and evaluation of operational responses and management of disasters; and protocols for response to disasters.

• Influenza

PLOS Currents: Influenza considers all aspects of research into influenza. Topics include (but are not limited to) influenza virology, genetics, immunity, structural biology, genomics, epidemiology, modeling, evolution, policy and control.

• Tree of Life

PLOS Currents: Tree of Life is a venue for the publication of phylogenetic research that informs our understanding of organismal evolution. The Editors welcome submissions which describe analyses that provide support for existing relationships; large-scale analyses that provide an overview of many taxa, or a novel algorithm for estimating phylogenies; reports on new or novel insights to relationships; and synthetic papers on groups, particularly enigmatic groups (e.g., retroviruses).

• Evidence on Genomic Tests

PLOS Currents: Evidence on Genomic Tests takes a broad of the definition of genomic testing. Suitable topics include many proteomic testing schemes and protein-based tests (although tests for single biomarkers or antigens are generally not suitable), and applications that are termed “genetic tests”. Authors may wish to consult the definition of genetic testing provided on page 17 of the 2008 SACGHS report U.S. System of Oversight of Genetic Testing: A Response to the Charge of the Secretary of Health and Human Services. One potential source of topics is the Genomic Applications for Practice and Prevention Knowledge Base (GAPPKB).