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).

• A four-gene signature from blood to exclude bacterial etiology of lower respiratory tract infection in adults.

  PMID 41285807 · PMC12644739 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 94

  A 4-gene signature (ITGB4, ITGA7, IFI27, FAM20A) derived from whole blood RNA-seq discriminates any bacterial from nonbacterial ARI with cross-validated AUC = 0.90

  hospitalized adults pediatric blood bulk rna-seq microarray

• Metagenomic analysis of human diarrhea: viral detection and discovery.

  PMID 18398449 · PMC2290972 · PLoS pathogens · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Micro-mass sequencing (minimal stool input, minimal purification, ~384 reads/sample) can detect known enteric viruses in diarrhea specimens

  stool divergent extract preparations sequence-independent maximum enzyme

• Application of ProteinChip array profiling in serum biomarker discovery for patients suffering from severe acute respiratory syndrome.

  PMID 18220240 · PMC7120874 · Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2007 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  SELDI-TOF-MS ProteinChip array profiling of serum can identify differentially expressed protein biomarkers in SARS-CoV infected patients versus controls.

  serum sars seldi-tof-ms ion serial

• From Pasteur to genomics: progress and challenges in infectious diseases.

  PMID 15516917 · PMC7096024 · Nature medicine · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Genomic sequencing has revealed the blueprint of most pathogens, enabling new diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines including for previously uncultivable agents.

  bacterial neisseria sars hiv-infected whole-genome reverse nucleic

• An OMICs-based meta-analysis to support infection state stratification.

  PMID 33560295 · PMC8388022 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2021 · 7 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 44

  Multi-class machine learning models built from cross-platform microarray meta-analysis can distinguish bacterial, viral and no-infection states with high accuracy (best model: 93% bacterial, 89% viral correct).

  blood merged affymetrix-optimized gene feature out-of-sample

• getSequenceInfo: a suite of tools allowing to get genome sequence information from public repositories.

  PMID 35804320 · PMC9264741 · BMC bioinformatics · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 99

  getSequenceInfo (gSeqI) allows programmatic (CLI) or GUI-based retrieval of sequence data and metadata from GenBank, RefSeq, and ENA across Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

  genome complete same coronavirus nuclescore resistance mlst

• Unlocking the microbial studies through computational approaches: how far have we reached?

  PMID 36920617 · PMC10016191 · Environmental science and pollution research international · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction

  Metagenomics enables culture-independent study of microbial communities directly from their natural environments, bypassing the need for clonal isolation.

  clinical bacteriophage vaginal hbv ngs random whole-genome

• Host-pathogen studies in the post-genomic era.

  PMID 11178231 · PMC138846 · Genome biology · 2000 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  DNA arrays have been used to study host and/or pathogen gene expression for four viruses (HCMV, HHV8, HIV-1, HPV31) and two bacteria (Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella)

  foreskin b-cell t-cell normal pathogen host

• Metagenomic analysis of respiratory tract DNA viral communities in cystic fibrosis and non-cystic fibrosis individuals.

  PMID 19816605 · PMC2756586 · PloS one · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CF phage communities are highly similar to each other, whereas Non-CF individuals have more distinct, variable phage communities reflecting transient environmental sampling

  sputum phage metagenomes inferred metagenomic functional diversity

• Bcipep: a database of B-cell epitopes.

  PMID 15921533 · PMC1173103 · BMC genomics · 2005 · 8 claims · 2 setups

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  Bcipep is a comprehensive database of experimentally determined linear B-cell epitopes compiled from literature and other public databases

  synthetic antigenic anti-peptide sequence

• MetaMap: an atlas of metatranscriptomic reads in human disease-related RNA-seq data.

  PMID 29901703 · PMC6025204 · GigaScience · 2018 · 6 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 95

  A two-step 'omni' RNA-seq pipeline (MetaMap) combining STAR human alignment with CLARK-S metagenomic classification can quantify archaeal, bacterial, and viral reads from the non-human read fraction of human RNA-seq data

  clinical hela tumor rutkowski bulk dual negative

• MEDUSA: A Pipeline for Sensitive Taxonomic Classification and Flexible Functional Annotation of Metagenomic Shotgun Sequences.

  PMID 35330728 · PMC8940201 · Frontiers in genetics · 2022 · 6 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 50

  MEDUSA is an automated, Conda-installable and Snakemake-managed pipeline performing preprocessing, assembly, alignment, taxonomic classification, and functional annotation on shotgun data.

  bovine simulated cami trimming decontamination assembly

• Estimating biodiversity across the tree of life on Mount Everest's southern flank with environmental DNA.

  PMID 36148432 · PMC9486557 · iScience · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 65

  eDNA from ten high-alpine ponds and streams (4,500-5,500 m) on Mt. Everest's southern flank revealed 187 potential orders from 36 phyla across the Tree of Life.

  edna khumbu genome metabarcoding satellite

• Wochenende - modular and flexible alignment-based shotgun metagenome analysis.

  PMID 36368923 · PMC9650795 · BMC genomics · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 88

  Wochenende is a modular, transparent alignment-based pipeline for shotgun metagenome analysis supporting short and long reads across all kingdoms of life

  zymo bacterial reference shotgun comparative reference

• RNA interference in functional genomics and medicine.

  PMID 12808314 · PMC3055057 · Journal of Korean medical science · 2003 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  RNAi is sequence-specific gene silencing induced by double-stranded RNA and is mediated by ~22-nt siRNAs generated from long dsRNA by the RNase III enzyme Dicer.

  caenorhabditis drosophila mammalian postnatal dsrna biochemical synthetic

• Structural genomics and drug discovery.

  PMID 17488474 · PMC3822824 · Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Membrane proteins represent ~70% of current drug targets but only just over 100 high-resolution structures exist for them, versus >30,000 total structures in public databases dominated by soluble proteins.

  coli emre pichia sf9 cell-free bacterial inclusion

• The role of genomics in the identification, prediction, and prevention of biological threats.

  PMID 19855827 · PMC2757898 · PLoS biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Genomics should be used proactively, not just reactively, to build biopreparedness against biological threats

  bacillus escherichia sars pandemic whole-genome pangenomic low-resolution

• Metatranscriptomics of the human oral microbiome during health and disease.

  PMID 24692635 · PMC3977359 · mBio · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 62

  Disease-associated periodontal communities display conserved community-level metabolic gene expression profiles between patients, whereas the metabolic gene expression of individual species is highly variable between patients.

  patient-matched subset health rna-seq rrna comparison metatranscriptomics

• Molecular genomic approaches to infectious diseases in resource-limited settings.

  PMID 19855820 · PMC2745561 · PLoS medicine · 2009 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Researchers in most developing countries lack the technology, resources, and capacity to participate fully in genomics research.

  clinical mycobacterium trypanosoma theileria pcr-based molecular whole-genome

• DNA sequencing: bench to bedside and beyond.

  PMID 17855400 · PMC2094077 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  DNA sequencing methods derived from Sanger's 1977 dideoxy method have dominated sequencing for 30 years despite being only incrementally refined.

  bacteriophage double-stranded single-stranded cloned plus maxam-gilbert dideoxy