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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Synthetic genome engineering gets infectious.

Leslie A Mitchell, Tom Ellis

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Methods for safely sharing dual-use genetic data.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026
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  3. Building genomes to understand biology.Nature communications · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Leslie A MitchellDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University Langone School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016.
Tom EllisCentre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom; t.ellis@imperial.ac.uk.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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GenomeSynthetic BiologyCommunicable DiseasesGenetic Engineering

Identifiers

PMID29073011
PMCPMC5651789

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