Reading and keeping up to date on relevant literature is a crucial part of being a scientist. Here's a few tips on being efficient literature consumers:
Start an RSS reader for feeds from your favorite journals (and blogs, sites, etc) to keep track of the latest manuscripts and scientific news. I recommend OldReader, but others like Feedly and Digg Reader are popular as well.
Make a habit of scanning your RSS feed or journal ToCs every day and save interesting papers into categories (ie. Must Read, Relevant, Interesting, etc)
save papers into Papers/etc
Set up alerts at Google Scholar and PubMed to alert you about papers published with keywords relevant to your project or interests (ie. "mRNA & splicing & kinetics")
How to efficiently read papers:
Elsevier's reading a paper inforgraphic
Research journals relevant to our research:
American Journal of Human Genetics
aRxiv; bioRxiv (preprints)
Cell; Cell Reports; Cell Systems; Molecular Cell
Genome Biology and Evolution; Molecular Biology and Evolution
Nature; Nature Biotechnology; Nature Communications; Nature Genetics; Nature Methods; Nature Structural and Molecular Biology
PLOS Biology; PLOS Genetics; PLOS Computational Biology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS)
Review journals with relevant reviews:
Current Opinions in Biotechnology; Current Opinions in Genetics and Development; Current Opinions in Systems Biology
Nature Reviews Genetics; Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
Trends in Genetics