ArticleMolecular biology of the cell2010
It's the data!
Article in Molecular biology of the cell, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Improved recovery of cell-cycle gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae from regulatory interactions in multiple omics data.BMC genomics · 2020Article
- Analysis of public RNA-sequencing data reveals biological consequences of genetic heterogeneity in cell line populations.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Implications of Big Data for cell biology.Molecular biology of the cell · 2015Article
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- Yeast: an experimental organism for 21st Century biology.Genetics · 2011Review
- Any jackass can trash a manuscript, but it takes good scholarship to create one (how MBoC promotes civil and constructive peer review).Molecular biology of the cell · 2011Article
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Abstract
Three articles from the early years of Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC) have had remarkably many citations in the literature since their publication approximately 10 years ago. As a coauthor of these articles and the former editor of MBoC, I was asked for possible explanations. I believe the answer lies in the unusual nature of these articles: each presents and summarizes gene expression data for nearly every gene in the yeast or human genomes. Continuing interest in the data themselves by cell biologists, rather than results or conclusions drawn by the authors, best accounts for the citation history. The flatness of the numbers of citations over time, the continuing high rate of accesses to individual Web sites set up to allow searching and display of the underlying data, and the large fraction of citations in journals focused on mathematics and computation all support the same conclusion: it's the data.
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