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.
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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.
Summary
Keywords
Norwalk virus, Monoclonal antibody, X-ray crystallography, In silico modeling, Cryoelectron Microscopy
Citation
Frontiers in Microbiology Editorial Office (2015) 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, Japan
Volume
6 - 2015
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