Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27516592›Full record

ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2016

Comment on "Mutation rate and genotype variation of Ebola virus from Mali case sequences".

Andrew Rambaut, Gytis Dudas, Luiz Max de Carvalho, Daniel J Park, Nathan L Yozwiak, Edward C Holmes, Kristian G Andersen

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing 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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Andrew RambautInstitute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, EH9 3FL, Edinburgh, UK. Centre for Immunology, Infection, and Evolution at the University of Edinburgh, EH9 3FL, Edinburgh, UK. a.rambaut@ed.ac.uk kga1978@gmail.com.
Gytis DudasInstitute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, EH9 3FL, Edinburgh, UK.
Luiz Max de CarvalhoInstitute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, EH9 3FL, Edinburgh, UK.
Daniel J ParkBroad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Nathan L YozwiakBroad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Edward C HolmesMarie Bashir Institute of Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, Charles Perkins Centre, Sydney Medical School, and School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
Kristian G AndersenThe Scripps Research Institute, Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Scripps Translational Science Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. a.rambaut@ed.ac.uk kga1978@gmail.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hoenen et al (Reports, 3 April 2015, p. 117; published online 26 March) suggested that the Ebola virus Makona responsible for the West African epidemic evolved more slowly than previously reported. We show that this was based on corrupted data. An erratum provided a rate compatible with the initial and later, more precise, estimates but did not correctly state the nature of the error.

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EbolavirusGenotypeHemorrhagic Fever, EbolaHumansMaliMutation Rate

Identifiers

PMID27516592

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