Evidence map›Paper›PMID 20660309›Full record

ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2010

Bacteria determine fate by playing dice with controlled odds.

Eshel Ben-Jacob, Daniel Schultz

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
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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

10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Review
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  4. Branching instability in expanding bacterial colonies.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2015
    Article
  5. The physics of bacterial decision making.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2014
    Review
  6. Noise in biology.Reports on progress in physics. Physical Society (Great Britain) · 2014
    Review
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Origins of regulated cell-to-cell variability.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2011
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Eshel Ben-JacobSchool of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel. eshel@tamar.tau.ac.il
Daniel Schultz

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Amino Acid MotifsBacteriaBacterial ProteinsComputational BiologyEscherichia coliFeedback, PhysiologicalGene Expression Regulation, BacterialGene Regulatory NetworksMicrobial ViabilityModels, BiologicalModels, GeneticStochastic ProcessesBacterial Proteins

Identifiers

PMID20660309
PMCPMC2922178

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