Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22450377›Full record

ReviewNature reviews. Microbiology2012

A road map for the development of community systems (CoSy) biology.

Karsten Zengler, Bernhard O Palsson

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Review in Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 78 papers.

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78citing 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

78 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

2 authors.

Karsten ZenglerDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, 417 Powell-Focht Bioengineering Hall, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0412, USA. kzengler@ucsd.edu
Bernhard O Palsson

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microbial interactions are essential for all global geochemical cycles and have an important role in human health and disease. Although we possess general knowledge about the major processes within a microbial community, we are presently unable to decipher what role individual microorganisms have and how their individual actions influence others in the community. We also have limited knowledge with which to predict the effects of microbial interactions and community composition on the environment and vice versa. In this Opinion article, we describe how community systems (CoSy) biology will enable us to decode these complex relationships and will therefore improve our understanding of individual members of the community and the modes of interactions in which they engage.

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BiotaEnvironmental MicrobiologyMicrobial InteractionsMicrobial ConsortiaMicrobiological Techniques

Identifiers

PMID22450377

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