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ArticlePLoS computational biology2016

The Context-Dependence of Mutations: A Linkage of Formalisms.

Frank J Poelwijk, Vinod Krishna, Rama Ranganathan

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Article in PLoS computational biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 80 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

80 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Frank J PoelwijkGreen Center for Systems Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America.
Vinod KrishnaGreen Center for Systems Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America.
Rama RanganathanGreen Center for Systems Biology and Departments of Biophysics and Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Models, GeneticAmino Acid SubstitutionBase SequenceComputer SimulationEpistasis, GeneticMolecular Sequence DataMutationProtein Interaction MappingProteinsSequence Analysis, DNAProteins

Identifiers

PMID27337695
PMCPMC4919011

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