Evidence map›Paper›PMID 35861322›Full record

ArticleeLife2022

To biofilm or not to biofilm.

Shravan Pradeep, Paulo E Arratia

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Article in eLife, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
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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.

Shravan PradeepDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7483-2385
Paulo E ArratiaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2566-2663

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A new model helps to predict under which conditions a species of bacteria will switch to a static lifestyle.

Indexed as

BiofilmsQuorum SensingBacteriabacteriabiofilmchemotaxiscomputational biologydispersalmotilitynonephysics of living systemsquorum sensingsystems biology

Identifiers

PMID35861322
PMCPMC9302967

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.