Evidence map›Paper›PMID 20571533›Full record

ArticleMolecular systems biology2010

Violations of robustness trade-offs.

Hiroaki Kitano

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Molecular systems biology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Clinical Applications of System Regulation Medicine.Open access Macedonian journal of medical sciences · 2019
    Review
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Pervasive robustness in biological systems.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2015
    Review
  9. Article
  10. Review
  11. Article
  12. A Chemical Engineer's Perspective on Health and Disease.Computers & chemical engineering · 2014
    Article
  13. Article
  14. A Systems Engineering Perspective on Homeostasis and Disease.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2013
    Review
  15. Article
  16. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Hiroaki KitanoThe Systems Biology Institute, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. kitano@sbi.jp

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biological robustness is a principle that may shed light on system-level characteristics of biological systems. One intriguing aspect of the concept of biological robustness is the possible existence of intrinsic trade-offs among robustness, fragility, performance, and so on. At the same time, whether such trade-offs hold regardless of the situation or hold only under specific conditions warrants careful investigation. In this paper, we reassess this concept and argue that biological robustness may hold only when a system is sufficiently optimized and that it may not be conserved when there is room for optimization in its design. Several testable predictions and implications for cell culture experiments are presented.

Indexed as

Models, BiologicalSystems BiologyCells, CulturedSelection, Genetic

Identifiers

PMID20571533
PMCPMC2913402

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.