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Title

Retraction for Dhar et al., Targeting pseudoknots in H5N1 hemagglutinin using designed aptamers

 

Authors

Priyanka Dhar*, Sayak Ganguli, Abhijit Datta

 

Article Type

Retraction

 

Date Retraction published on December 25, 2013

Note

Reader’s Feedback:

The article "Targeting pseudo knots in H5N1 hemagglutinin using designed aptamers," Dhar et al. Bioinformation 2009 Oct. 25; 4(5):193-6 [1], has sections of text that were taken directly from the article "Pseudoknots: RNA structures with diverse functions" by Staple and Butcher, PLos Biol. 2005 June 3(6):e213 [2].

 

Decision:

Investigation suggests that a significant portion (highlighted in yellow shade) of text in Discussion are plagiarized as stated above. This is clearly in violation of “ethics in publishing”. Therefore, it is decided to retract this article from Bioinformation as on December 25, 2013. Thus, this information is brought to the notice of the following authors Priyanka Dhar Sayak Ganguli Abhijit Datta

 

References:

[1] Dhar P et al. Bioinformation 2009 Oct. 25; 4(5): 193 [PMID: 20461158]

[2] Staple DW & Butcher SE, PLos Biol. 2005 June 3(6): e213 [PMID: 15941360]

 

ISSN

0973-2063

 

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

 

Copyright

Publisher

 

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.