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A retraction of the Perspective:
In silico 3D structure analysis accelerates the solution of a real viral structure and antibodies docking mechanism
by Miki, M., and Katayama, K. (2012) Front. Microbio. 3:387. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00387
The authors and the journal wish to retract the 6 November 2012 article cited above.
Based on information discovered after publication and reported to the journal in November 2014, this article was found to contain sections that were taken verbatim from other sources without giving proper reference to the source and without identifying the citation as a word-by-word citation from that source. In addition, credit was not given to all authors of the research reported in the article and copyright permissions were not obtained for the use of Figure 1. The authors agree with the retraction of the article and apologize to the readers, reviewers and editors of Frontiers in Microbiology.
Conflict of Interest Statement
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
Citation: Frontiers in Microbiology Editorial Office (2015) Retraction: Miki M and Katayama K (2012) Retraction: In silico 3D structure analysis accelerates the solution of a real viral structure and antibodies docking mechanism Front. Microbiol. 6:1138. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01138
Received: 29 September 2015; Accepted: 02 October 2015;
Published: 20 October 2015.
Approved by:
Akio Adachi, Tokushima University Graduate School, JapanCopyright © 2015 Frontiers in Microbiology Editorial Office. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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