Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22895338›Full record

ArticleNature2012

Exploiting diversity and synthetic biology for the production of algal biofuels.

D Ryan Georgianna, Stephen P Mayfield

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Article in Nature, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 138 papers.

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138citing 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

138 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.

D Ryan GeorgiannaSan Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.
Stephen P Mayfield

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modern life is intimately linked to the availability of fossil fuels, which continue to meet the world's growing energy needs even though their use drives climate change, exhausts finite reserves and contributes to global political strife. Biofuels made from renewable resources could be a more sustainable alternative, particularly if sourced from organisms, such as algae, that can be farmed without using valuable arable land. Strain development and process engineering are needed to make algal biofuels practical and economically viable.

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AquacultureBiofuelsBiomassBioreactorsBiosynthetic PathwaysBiotechnologyGenetic EngineeringKelpLipidsMicroalgaePhenotypePhotosynthesisRecyclingBiofuelsLipids

Identifiers

PMID22895338

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