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).

• Methylation patterns of the nasal epigenome of hospitalized SARS-CoV-2 positive patients reveal insights into molecular mechanisms of COVID-19.

  PMID 40170038 · PMC11963311 · BMC medical genomics · 2025 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  The nasal methylome shows differential DNA methylation in intergenic regions and low methylated regions (LMRs), highlighting distal regulatory/enhancer-like elements in COVID-19 gene regulation

  nasal aggregated severe differentially genome methylation differential

• EpiDiverse Toolkit: a pipeline suite for the analysis of bisulfite sequencing data in ecological plant epigenetics.

  PMID 34805989 · PMC8598301 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2021 · 8 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 54

  EpiDiverse Toolkit provides Nextflow-based pipelines for WGBS mapping, methylation calling, variant calling, differential methylation, and EWAS tailored to non-model plant ecology

  populus nigra genome variant clustering

• A comprehensive resource of genomic, epigenomic and transcriptomic sequencing data for the black truffle Tuber melanosporum.

  PMID 25392735 · PMC4228822 · GigaScience · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 61

  T. melanosporum shows a high rate of cytosine methylation (>44%) that selectively targets transposable elements rather than genes, with a strong preference for CpG sites.

  tuber ectomycorrhizal melanosporum rna-seq whole-genome sequencing guided

• Firefly genomes illuminate parallel origins of bioluminescence in beetles.

  PMID 30324905 · PMC6191289 · eLife · 2018 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 93

  Bioluminescence evolved independently at least twice in beetles: once in the firefly ancestor and once in the bioluminescent click beetle ancestor.

  photinus aquatica ignelater pyralis hybrid whole-genome linked-read

• Systematic benchmarking of tools for CpG methylation detection from nanopore sequencing.

  PMID 34103501 · PMC8187371 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 99

  Nanopore methylation detection tools exhibit a tradeoff between false positives and false negatives and high dispersion relative to expected per-site methylation frequencies.

  coli lymphoblastoid na12878 mixture nanopore cas9-targeted whole-genome

• Genome-wide DNA hypermethylation opposes healing in patients with chronic wounds by impairing epithelial-mesenchymal transition.

  PMID 35819852 · PMC9433101 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Chronic wound-edge tissue exhibits genome-wide DNA hypermethylation, with hypermethylation more prominent than hypomethylation across differentially methylated regions.

  chronic unwounded keratinocytes whole-genome bisulfite bulk

• DMN-seq enriches DNA hypomethylated regions for biomarker discovery using 5-methylcytosine glycosylase.

  PMID 41673887 · PMC13097799 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 9 setups

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  DMN-seq (DMN+) uses DME to nick DNA specifically at 5mC sites, enabling 5mC detection at single-base resolution via selective adaptor ligation

  synthetic partially embryonic mesc glycosylase dmn-seq ultrafast

• Epigenetics and phenotypic variation in mammals.

  PMID 16688527 · PMC3906716 · Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Epigenetic modifications are mitotically heritable, but the fidelity of meiotic/transgenerational inheritance in mammals is poorly understood and evidence in mammals is scanty.

  mammalian mhc chromosomes embryonic methylation high-throughput chip

• Widely variable endogenous retroviral methylation levels in human placenta.

  PMID 17617638 · PMC1950553 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  Three HERV-E LTRs that function as alternative gene promoters (LTR-PTN, LTR-EBR, LTR-MID1) are unmethylated in placenta but heavily methylated in blood cells, where they are not active promoters

  term placenta genome bisulfite rt-pcr genome-wide

• Comprehensive enhancer-target gene assignments improve gene set level interpretation of genome-wide regulatory data.

  PMID 35473573 · PMC9044877 · Genome biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Combining multiple enhancer-definition and enhancer-gene link data sources yields 1860 genome-wide EnTDefs covering >500 cell types

  types encode chip-seq chromhmm dnase-seq

• Aberration in DNA methylation in B-cell lymphomas has a complex origin and increases with disease severity.

  PMID 23326238 · PMC3542081 · PLoS genetics · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas display striking intra-tumor (intra-sample) and inter-patient (inter-sample) cytosine methylation heterogeneity that increases progressively with disease aggressiveness (NBC<NGC<FL<GCB<ABC).

  dlbcl normal same lymphoma help errbs massarray

• Genome-wide tracking of unmethylated DNA Alu repeats in normal and cancer cells.

  PMID 18084025 · PMC2241897 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 5 claims · 7 setups

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  QUMA (quantitative real-time PCR) and AUMA (fingerprinting PCR) methods can quantify and individually identify unmethylated Alu elements on a genomic scale using the methylation-sensitive SmaI site as a surrogate marker

  paired colorectal genome normal quma auma bioinformatic

• Whole genome and transcriptome maps of the entirely black native Korean chicken breed Yeonsan Ogye.

  PMID 30010758 · PMC6065499 · GigaScience · 2018 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 91

  A draft genome (Ogye_1.1) was assembled using a hybrid de novo method combining high-depth Illumina short reads (376.6X) and low-depth PacBio long reads (9.7X)

  yeonsan ogye_1.1 locus tissues whole-genome genome structural

• MBD-isolated Genome Sequencing provides a high-throughput and comprehensive survey of DNA methylation in the human genome.

  PMID 19906696 · PMC2811030 · Nucleic acids research · 2010 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  MiGS combines MBD2 MBD-domain precipitation of methylated DNA with massively parallel sequencing to enable unbiased, high-throughput genome-wide DNA methylation profiling

  hct116 migs mbd-isolated bisulfite gene

• Methods for genome-wide analysis of DNA methylation in intestinal tumors.

  PMID 19854208 · PMC2891386 · Mutation research · 2010 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Aberrant DNA methylation, including CpG island hypermethylation of tumor suppressors and genome-wide hypomethylation, is strongly linked to the origin and progression of colorectal cancer.

  cd19+ lung gpx1 tumor mira medip goldengate

• epiGBS2: Improvements and evaluation of highly multiplexed, epiGBS-based reduced representation bisulfite sequencing.

  PMID 35178872 · PMC9311447 · Molecular ecology resources · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  epiGBS2 provides a laboratory protocol and revised bioinformatics pipeline for de novo cytosine methylation and SNP calling in species with or without a reference genome

  arabidopsis great epigbs2 demultiplexed epigbs2 pcr demultiplexing

• Evidence for L1-associated DNA rearrangements and negligible L1 retrotransposition in glioblastoma multiforme.

  PMID 27843499 · PMC5105311 · Mobile DNA · 2016 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  Canonical (endonuclease-dependent, TPRT-driven) L1 retrotransposition is absent or negligible in GBM tumours and cultured GBM cell lines

  brain tumour gbm retrotransposon empty qrt-pcr

• Compression of structured high-throughput sequencing data.

  PMID 24260313 · PMC3832420 · PloS one · 2013 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 43

  Leveraging an explicit data schema (separate field encoding, field modeling, template compression, domain modeling) enables stronger compression of HTS alignment data than general-purpose compression of serialized bytes.

  benchmark ten rna-seq exome genome

• Alexander Meissner: learning the reprogramming code.

  PMID 19704017 · PMC2733751 · The Journal of cell biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A defined set of factors present in oocytes and embryonic stem (ES) cells can reprogram a somatic cell to pluripotency, as shown by nuclear transfer and ES cell/somatic cell fusion experiments

  blastocysts somatic fused genomic nuclear inducible fusion

• Downregulation of death-associated protein kinase 1 (DAPK1) in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

  PMID 17540169 · PMC4647864 · Cell · 2007 · 8 claims · 13 setups

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  DAPK1 promoter is epigenetically silenced by DNA methylation in almost all sporadic CLL cases

  cd19+ leukemia raji jurkat quantitative cobra chromatin