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closeWhich organism(s) is this about?
Posted by peteruetz on 11 Sep 2017 at 14:09 GMT
I was trying to figure out if this paper is about the essential genes of a certain organism. The title doesn't say. The abstract doesn't say. The Introduction talks about Helicobacter pylori, but is it about H. pylori? The Methods section, subsection "Dataset" doesn't say but cites a paper whose title doesn't say. None of the figures or tables says what the organism is. Is it all organisms or at least a set collected across all organisms? Unlikely, given that the Database of Essential genes has many more than their "gold standard 217 essential genes".
Maybe I am missing something here, given that I haven't read the whole paper, but it should be clear from the title or abstract what the paper is about. Greetings to editors and reviewers :)
RE: Which organism(s) is this about?
huangtao replied to peteruetz on 12 Sep 2017 at 02:44 GMT
Human. In introduction, "The essential/non-essential genes of the human chronic myelogenous leukemia cell line K562 were retrieved from Morgens et al.'s study [14]."