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ReviewTheoretical biology & medical modelling2014

Mathematical and computational modeling in biology at multiple scales.

Jack A Tuszynski, Philip Winter, Diana White, Chih-Yuan Tseng, Kamlesh K Sahu, Francesco Gentile, Ivana Spasevska, Sara Ibrahim Omar, Niloofar Nayebi, Cassandra Dm Churchill and 2 more

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Review in Theoretical biology & medical modelling, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing 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

8 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

12 authors.

Jack A TuszynskiDepartment of Physics and Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. jackt@ualberta.ca.
Philip Winter
Diana White
Chih-Yuan Tseng
Kamlesh K Sahu
Francesco Gentile
Ivana Spasevska
Sara Ibrahim Omar
Niloofar Nayebi
Cassandra Dm Churchill
Mariusz Klobukowski
Rabab M Abou El-Magd

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A variety of topics are reviewed in the area of mathematical and computational modeling in biology, covering the range of scales from populations of organisms to electrons in atoms. The use of maximum entropy as an inference tool in the fields of biology and drug discovery is discussed. Mathematical and computational methods and models in the areas of epidemiology, cell physiology and cancer are surveyed. The technique of molecular dynamics is covered, with special attention to force fields for protein simulations and methods for the calculation of solvation free energies. The utility of quantum mechanical methods in biophysical and biochemical modeling is explored. The field of computational enzymology is examined.

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Computer SimulationEntropyMolecular Dynamics Simulation

Identifiers

PMID25542608
PMCPMC4396153

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