Mulvenna, Jason, et.al. «Exposed proteins of the Schistosoma japonicum tegument.» International Journal for Parasitology 40.5 (2010). Article of the future version. <http://www.articleofthefuture.com/S0020751909003920/> 20 January, 2014.

Mulvenna and his colleagues have investigated the proteins in the skin of a tiny worm that can live inside the human body and causes illness and death in thousands of people every year. This is experimental science, and the article follows the IMRAD structure.

As with many Articles of the Future, there is a research highlights section before the abstract, and the layout and features are largely the same as in the other expermiental articles. Two features stand out in this article: Experiment flowcharts and links to a protein database.

This kind of science is very technical. Methods are accounted for in detail, with lots of technical terms and names of instruments. An example:

OFFGEL fractions were chromatographically separated on a Dionex Ultimate 3000 HPLC using a Phenomenex C18 (2.1 mm × 25 cm) column using a linear gradient of 0–40% solvent B over 40 min with a flow rate of 250 μl/min. The mobile phase consisted of solvent A (0.1% formic acid (aq)) and solvent B (90/10 acetonitrile/0.1% formic acid (aq)). Eluates from the reverse phase (RP)-HPLC column were directly introduced into the TurboV ionisation source of a hybrid quadrupole/linear ion trap 4000 QTRAP MS/MS system (Applied Biosystems) operated in positive ion electrospray mode.

The four main experiments are summarised in «research flowcharts,» lists of steps performed, that can be shown in the right sidebar.

Methodes are summed up again in the beginning of the results section: «Adult parasites, perfused from mice and biotinylated using sulfo-NHS-LC-biotin, were subjected to immuno-fluorescence microscopy to detect the distribution of biotin probes during up to 30 min of incubation. A clear intense band of label was observed in the region of the distal cytoplasm of the tegument.»

The main result is a list of 42 proteins identified in the worm. These are listed in a large table, and each protein is hyperlinked to its record in an international database. When clicked, the link opens the database record for that protein in the right column, including an animated figure of the protein’s structure.

The table can also be opened in the sidebar, but it is then shown so small it is illegible.

This is an adaption of a print article, and the original article is quite visual, with several colour photographs and two explanatory figures in colour. As the print journal is in A4 format (or close), the illustrations and tables are printed large. On the web, they actually appear smaller and less detailed. But the Web can fit more, so four tables of additional results can be downloaded from the sidebar, in the form of Excel spreadsheets.