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ArticleNature biotechnology2011

PathSeq: software to identify or discover microbes by deep sequencing of human tissue.

Aleksandar D Kostic, Akinyemi I Ojesina, Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu, Joonil Jung, Roel G W Verhaak, Gad Getz, Matthew Meyerson

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Article in Nature biotechnology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 195 papers.

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195citing 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

195 citing papers in PubMed.

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135 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

7 authors.

Aleksandar D Kostic
Akinyemi I Ojesina
Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu
Joonil Jung
Roel G W Verhaak
Gad Getz
Matthew Meyerson

Funding

An infrastructure for cancer virus discovery from next-generation sequencing dataRC2CA148317 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI MEYERSON, MATTHEW L. · 2009 to 2010
$1.6M
NCI NIH HHS RC2 CA148317NCI NIH HHS RC2CA148317
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Genome, HumanSoftwareComputational BiologyDatabases, Nucleic AcidGene LibraryGenome, ViralHeLa CellsHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHuman papillomavirus 18HumansSequence Analysis, RNA

Identifiers

PMID21552235
PMCPMC3523678

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