Experiments

Searchable full-text extractions: founding hypothesis, core claims, experimental setups, key results and statistics — pulled out of each paper as structure. Search a cell line, an assay or an entity (e.g. HUH7) and find every paper that worked with it. This corpus stands on its own: most entries carry no reproduction assessment (yet).

• Assessment tool based on fatty acid metabolic signatures for predicting the prognosis and treatment response in bladder cancer.

  PMID 38076064 · PMC10703629 · Heliyon · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Consensus clustering of prognosis-related fatty acid metabolism genes (FAMGs) identifies three molecular subtypes of BLCA (FAMC1, FAMC2, FAMC3) with distinct prognoses and tumor microenvironments

  tcga-blca famc1-3 differentially gse32894 bulk consensus gene

• Metabolic reprogramming and prognostic insights in molecular landscapes driven by glycolysis in ovarian cancer.

  PMID 40707588 · PMC12290113 · Scientific reports · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  457 differentially expressed GRGs were identified between OC and normal ovarian tissue, of which 30 were significantly associated with prognosis

  tcga-oc tcga-oc-gse26193 ov_gse154600 iose-80 bulk univariate copy

• A reference profile-free deconvolution method to infer cancer cell-intrinsic subtypes and tumor-type-specific stromal profiles.

  PMID 32111252 · PMC7049190 · Genome medicine · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DeClust is a reference-profile-free deconvolution method that incorporates molecular subtyping directly into the deconvolution process, outputting cohort-level cancer subtype and stromal reference profiles rather than per-individual profiles

  tcga simulated muscle-invasive ccrcc computational simulation-based deconvolution

• Involvement of N4BP2L1, PLEKHA4, and BEGAIN genes in breast cancer and muscle cell development.

  PMID 38859961 · PMC11163233 · Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  N4BP2L1, PLEKHA4, and BEGAIN, normally highly expressed in breast myoepithelial and smooth muscle cells, are significantly downregulated in breast tumor tissue of a 50-patient cohort

  breast paired embryonic hesc-derived bulk rt-qpcr immunofluorescence

• Dynamic interaction of MYC enhancer RNA with YEATS2 protein regulates MYC gene transcription in pancreatic cancer.

  PMID 40216980 · PMC12117045 · EMBO reports · 2025 · 8 claims · 11 setups

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  MYC eRNAs (notably MYC-490-kb) are transcribed from the MYC super-enhancer and are upregulated by chronic TNF-α stimulation specifically in pancreatic cancer cells, not normal pancreatic epithelial cells

  pdac miapaca-2 chronic myc-490-kb survival chip-seq nascent

• STAT3-dependent analysis reveals PDK4 as independent predictor of recurrence in prostate cancer.

  PMID 32323921 · PMC7178451 · Molecular systems biology · 2020 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Low STAT3 expression in primary PCa is associated with increased OXPHOS and ribosomal biosynthesis at the transcriptomic level

  prostate bulk weighted reverse

• Bioinformatics Analysis of the Characteristics and Correlation of m6A Methylation in Breast Cancer Progression.

  PMID 35655723 · PMC9148239 · Contrast media & molecular imaging · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Breast cancer samples can be classified into 4 m6A subtypes (quiescent, m6A methylation, protein-binding, mixed) based on Z-score median of Set1 (writer+reader) and Set2 (eraser) gene expression

  breast tcga-brca gse25066 bioinformatics survival alternative

• Epigenome screening highlights that JMJD6 confers an epigenetic vulnerability and mediates sunitinib sensitivity in renal cell carcinoma.

  PMID 33634984 · PMC7882098 · Clinical and translational medicine · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  JMJD6 is identified as a potent epigenetic vulnerability/fitness gene in RCC by integrating GeCK CRISPR screening data with TCGA-KIRC epigenetic regulator survival analysis

  pan-cancer tcga-kirc rcc balb crispr rna-seq mtt

• Heterogeneity of cancer-associated fibroblasts in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

  PMID 37320872 · PMC10277597 · Translational oncology · 2023 · 8 claims · 9 setups

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  Seven distinct CAF subsets exist in HNSCC, identified via integration of scRNA-seq, bulk transcriptomic, and spatial transcriptomic data.

  hnscc tcga-hnscc caf fibroblast single-cell bulk spatial

• Predicting Bone Metastasis Using Gene Expression-Based Machine Learning Models.

  PMID 34858485 · PMC8631472 · Frontiers in genetics · 2021 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  A DNN model built on 34 top-ranked hub genes achieves the highest prediction accuracy (AUC 92.11%) for distinguishing primary from bone-metastasized tumors

  breast degs geo tcga microarray protein-protein machine

• Analyzing biomarker discovery: Estimating the reproducibility of biomarker sets.

  PMID 35901020 · PMC9333302 · PloS one · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Non-reproducibility is a common problem in biomarker discovery: independently derived biomarker sets for the same phenotype frequently share very few features across studies

  gse7390 geo ega tcga-brca t-test-based reproducibility genome-wide

• Somatic mutations of the Parkinson's disease-associated gene PARK2 in glioblastoma and other human malignancies.

  PMID 19946270 · PMC4002225 · Nature genetics · 2010 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PARK2 is a frequently and specifically targeted gene within recurrent 6q25.2-q27 copy number losses in glioblastoma and colon cancer

  colon gbm cancer dbtrg array pcr colony

• HArmonized single-cell RNA-seq Cell type Assisted Deconvolution (HASCAD).

  PMID 37907883 · PMC10619225 · BMC medical genomics · 2023 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  HASCAD, a DNN-based cell composition deconvolution model, predicts the fractions of up to 15 immune cell types from bulk RNA-seq.

  pbmc bulk tcga-lihc harmony-symphony scrna-seq simulated bulk

• Parsimonious Gene Correlation Network Analysis (PGCNA): a tool to define modular gene co-expression for refined molecular stratification in cancer.

  PMID 30993001 · PMC6459838 · NPJ systems biology and applications · 2019 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Retaining only the top ~3 most correlated edges per gene (EPG3) combined with FastUnfold clustering (termed PGCNA) produces gene co-expression modules with significantly better separation and enrichment of known biology than using all edges or other clustering methods.

  breast colorectal brca representative gene comparative multi-omic

• Tumor methionine metabolism drives T-cell exhaustion in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 33674593 · PMC7935900 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A transcriptome-derived T-cell exhaustion score (ES) is prognostic for HCC patient survival independent of known clinical/molecular factors

  hcc-associated hcc malignant cd8+ single-cell bulk metabolomics

• Enhancing chemotherapy response prediction via matched colorectal tumor-organoid gene expression analysis and network-based biomarker selection.

  PMID 39754813 · PMC11754497 · Translational oncology · 2025 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  A consensus WGCNA approach combining matched tumor-organoid and independent organoid drug-response expression data identifies gene modules and hub genes predictive of 5-FU chemotherapy response

  colorectal matched combined expression microarray rna-seq consensus

• AI-assisted discovery of an ethnicity-influenced driver of cell transformation in esophageal and gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinomas.

  PMID 36134663 · PMC9675486 · JCI insight · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  An AI-guided Boolean network approach (BoNE) models transcriptomic continuum states of normal esophagus, BE, and EAC to derive classifier gene signatures

  gene keratinocyte-derived ffpe spt6-depleted boolean rna-seq immunohistochemistry

• Deciphering the Immune Microenvironment at the Forefront of Tumor Aggressiveness by Constructing a Regulatory Network with Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomic Data.

  PMID 38254989 · PMC10815467 · Genes · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Combining scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics enables inference of malignant cells at the invasive front of the ER+ breast cancer TME and dissection of events at the tumor infiltration forefront

  normal er+ epithelial malignant single-cell spatial copy