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ArticleeLife2017

Gene-free methodology for cell fate dynamics during development.

Francis Corson, Eric D Siggia

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Article in eLife, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28citing 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

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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

28 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Generative epigenetic landscapes map the topology and topography of cell fates.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  6. Reconstructing Waddington's landscape from data.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  8. Searching for physical principles of morphogenesis.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2025
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  10. Dynamical systems of fate and form in development.Seminars in cell & developmental biology · 2025
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  20. Latent space of a small genetic network: Geometry of dynamics and information.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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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.

Francis CorsonLaboratoire de Physique Statistique, CNRS / Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7230-137X
Eric D SiggiaCenter for Studies in Physics and Biology, Rockefeller University, New York, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7482-1854

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Models of cell function that assign a variable to each gene frequently lead to systems of equations with many parameters whose behavior is obscure. Geometric models reduce dynamics to intuitive pictorial elements that provide compact representations for sparse in vivo data and transparent descriptions of developmental transitions. To illustrate, a geometric model fit to vulval development in

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OrganogenesisAnimalsCaenorhabditis elegansFemaleModels, BiologicalModels, StatisticalSignal TransductionVulvaC. eleganscomputational biologydevelopmental biologyEGFgeometryNotchphase diagramstem cellssystems biologyvulvaWaddington model

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PMID29235987
PMCPMC5771671

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