Retraction: A Fosmid Cloning Strategy for Detecting the Widest Possible Spectrum of Microbes from the International Space Station Drinking Water System

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Genomics Inform. 2013;11(2):97-97

Publication date (electronic) : 2013 June 30

doi : https://doi.org/10.5808/GI.2013.11.2.97

Sangdun Choi ¹^,², Mi Sook Chang ², Tara Stuecker ³, Christine Chung ², David A. Newcombe ³, Kasthuri Venkateswaran ³

¹Department of Molecular Science and Technology, Ajou University, Suwon 443-749, Korea.

²Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.

³Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA.

http://dx.doi.org/10.5808/GI.2012.10.4.249

Genomics Inform 2012;10(4):249-255

The editorial committee of Genomics & Informatics has concluded that a substantial portion of the above article [1] was 'copied and pasted' from earlier publications without appropriate attribution. Although the plagiarized texts are detected only in the Introduction section [2], such a misconduct is unacceptable in a scientific writing. The authors have acknowledged plagiarism in the above article and requested retraction.

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1. Choi S, Chang MS, Stuecker T, Chung C, Newcombe DA, Venkateswaran K. A fosmid cloning strategy for detecting the widest possible spectrum of microbes from the International Space Station drinking water system. Genomics Inform 2012;10:249–255. 23346038.

2. Barry PL, Phillips T. Water on the space station Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration; 2000. Accessed 2013 Apr 23. Available from: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2000/ast02nov_1/.

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