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ArticleBiophysical reviews2020

Insights about collective decision-making at the genetic level.

Guillermo Rodrigo

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Article in Biophysical reviews, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing 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

3 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

1 author.

Guillermo RodrigoInstitute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), CSIC - U. Valencia, 46980, Paterna, Spain. guillermo.rodrigo@csic.es.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1871-9617

Funding

Generalitat Valenciana GV/2016/079Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, Gobierno de España BFU2015-66894-P
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

By living in a collective, individuals can share and aggregate information to base their decisions on the many rather than on the one, thereby increasing accuracy. But a collective can also be defined at the molecular level. In the following, we reason that genes, by working collectively, share fundamental features with social organisms, which ends, without invoking cognition, in wiser responses. For that, we compile into a single picture the terms redundancy, stochastic resonance, intrinsic and extrinsic noise, and cross-regulation.

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Gene regulationGenetic architectureHeterogeneityInformation theoryMolecular noiseRedundancySystems biology

Identifiers

PMID31845181
PMCPMC7040102

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