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ArticleNature2024

Functional and evolutionary significance of unknown genes from uncultivated taxa.

Álvaro Rodríguez Del Río, Joaquín Giner-Lamia, Carlos P Cantalapiedra, Jorge Botas, Ziqi Deng, Ana Hernández-Plaza, Martí Munar-Palmer, Saray Santamaría-Hernando, José J Rodríguez-Herva, Hans-Joachim Ruscheweyh and 7 more

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Article in Nature, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
67citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
16.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

67 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 98 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

17 authors at 6 institutions in 5 countries.

Álvaro Rodríguez Del RíoCentro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
Joaquín Giner-LamiaCentro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-1553-8295
Carlos P CantalapiedraCentro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-5263-533X
Jorge BotasCentro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
Ziqi DengCentro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
Ana Hernández-PlazaCentro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-9844-7999
Martí Munar-PalmerCentro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
Saray Santamaría-HernandoCentro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
José J Rodríguez-HervaCentro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
Hans-Joachim RuscheweyhDepartment of Biology, Institute of Microbiology and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-7473-6086
Lucas PaoliDepartment of Biology, Institute of Microbiology and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-0771-8309
Thomas S B SchmidtStructural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8587-4177
Shinichi SunagawaDepartment of Biology, Institute of Microbiology and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-3065-0314
Peer BorkStructural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.
Emilia López-SolanillaCentro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-8578-7433
Luis Pedro CoelhoInstitute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Jaime Huerta-CepasCentro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA-CSIC), Madrid, Spain. j.huerta@csic.es.ORCID 0000-0003-4195-5025
Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria · ESSIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics · CHEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory · DEInstituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis · ESMax Delbrück Center · DETranslational Research Institute · AU

Funding

National Programme for Fostering Excellence in Scientific and Technical Research
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many of the Earth's microbes remain uncultured and understudied, limiting our understanding of the functional and evolutionary aspects of their genetic material, which remain largely overlooked in most metagenomic studies

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ArchaeaBacteriaEcosystemEvolution, MolecularGenes, ArchaealGenes, BacterialGenomicsKnowledgeAntimicrobial PeptidesBiomarkersCell MovementColorectal NeoplasmsMetagenomicsMultigene FamilyPhylogenyReproducibility of ResultsAntimicrobial PeptidesBiomarkers

Identifiers

PMID38109938
PMCPMC10849945
OpenAlexW4389890051

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