Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21971504›Full record

ArticleNature communications2011

Designing attractive models via automated identification of chaotic and oscillatory dynamical regimes.

Daniel Silk, Paul D W Kirk, Chris P Barnes, Tina Toni, Anna Rose, Simon Moon, Margaret J Dallman, Michael P H Stumpf

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Nature communications, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing 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

10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Chaos in synthetic microbial communities.PLoS computational biology · 2022
    Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Review
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. 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

8 authors.

Daniel SilkCentre for Bioinformatics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
Paul D W Kirk
Chris P Barnes
Tina Toni
Anna Rose
Simon Moon
Margaret J Dallman
Michael P H Stumpf

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/F005210/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/FO05210/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/G007934/1Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chaos and oscillations continue to capture the interest of both the scientific and public domains. Yet despite the importance of these qualitative features, most attempts at constructing mathematical models of such phenomena have taken an indirect, quantitative approach, for example, by fitting models to a finite number of data points. Here we develop a qualitative inference framework that allows us to both reverse-engineer and design systems exhibiting these and other dynamical behaviours by directly specifying the desired characteristics of the underlying dynamical attractor. This change in perspective from quantitative to qualitative dynamics, provides fundamental and new insights into the properties of dynamical systems.

Indexed as

AutomationModels, TheoreticalNonlinear DynamicsSignal Transduction

Identifiers

PMID21971504
PMCPMC3207206

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.