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ArticleNature methods2014

TCGA-assembler: open-source software for retrieving and processing TCGA data.

Yitan Zhu, Peng Qiu, Yuan Ji

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Article in Nature methods, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 244 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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244citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

244 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

3 authors.

Yitan ZhuCenter for Biomedical Research Informatics, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
Peng QiuWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Yuan Ji1] Center for Biomedical Research Informatics, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, USA. [2] Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Funding

Bayesian models for cancer prognosis by integrating diverse types of dataR01CA132897 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI JI, YUAN, MUELLER, PETER · 2008 to 2019
$2.1M
Identifying the cellular hierarchy and drug response of AML using cytometric dataR01CA163481 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI QIU, PENG · 2012 to 2015
$1.1M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA132897NCI NIH HHS R01 CA163481
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Sequence Analysis, DNASoftwareGenomicsNeoplasms

Identifiers

PMID24874569
PMCPMC4387197

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