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 golden age of brain exploration.

  PMID 15660159 · PMC544547 · PLoS biology · 2005 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  Over 99% of neuroscience literature focuses on only 1% of the ~15,000–16,000 genes expressed in the brain, leaving most brain-expressed genes uncharacterized.

  brain transgenic situ microarray bacterial

• Integrative bioinformatics and artificial intelligence analyses of transcriptomics data identified genes associated with major depressive disorders including NRG1.

  PMID 37583471 · PMC10423927 · Neurobiology of stress · 2023 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Differentially expressed genes in MDD patients are enriched in immune response, inflammatory response, neurodegeneration, and cerebellar atrophy pathways.

  blood transcriptomic postmortem saliva gsea machine differential

• Gene expression and isoform variation analysis using Affymetrix Exon Arrays.

  PMID 18990248 · PMC2585104 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The Exon Array performs comparably to 3'-targeted platforms (Illumina, U133) at the gene expression level, though interplatform correlation is slightly lower than between the two 3' platforms.

  brain exon targeted principal

• Phylogenetic reconstruction of ancestral character states for gene expression and mRNA splicing data.

  PMID 15921519 · PMC1166541 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  A minimum evolution algorithm (implemented in software 'phyrex') can reconstruct ancestral states of continuous characters like gene expression or splicing levels along a phylogeny

  gene upstream chimpanzee reconstructed minimum sequence ancestral

• A protein interaction based model for schizophrenia study.

  PMID 19091023 · PMC2638163 · BMC bioinformatics · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Products of 36 schizophrenia candidate genes cluster together into a single connected component within a PPI sub-network of 831 proteins

  proteins clusters brain ppi network gene

• Innate immune modulation by RNA viruses: emerging insights from functional genomics.

  PMID 18654572 · PMC7097543 · Nature reviews. Immunology · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Influenza virus signals primarily through RIG-I to induce ISG expression, while West Nile virus signals through both RIG-I and MDA5 cooperatively.

  embryonic liver brain serial gene-expression computational

• Neuroscience in the era of functional genomics and systems biology.

  PMID 19829370 · PMC3645852 · Nature · 2009 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Omics/discovery-based approaches do not eschew hypotheses but elevate hypothesis testing to high-throughput hypothesis generation and prioritization.

  developing hippocampus bac-transgenic fetal situ gene bac-transgenic

• Histone deacetylase SIRT6 regulates tryptophan catabolism and prevents metabolite imbalance associated with neurodegeneration.

  PMID 41345108 · PMC12789597 · Nature communications · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  SIRT6 is an evolutionarily conserved regulator of tryptophan catabolism that balances tryptophan usage between the kynurenine and serotonin/melatonin pathways

  embryonic brains sirt6 serum untargeted rna-seq microarray

• The TREM2-APOE Pathway Drives the Transcriptional Phenotype of Dysfunctional Microglia in Neurodegenerative Diseases.

  PMID 28930663 · PMC5719893 · Immunity · 2017 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A common APOE-dependent microglial molecular signature (MGnD) — loss of homeostatic genes plus induction of inflammatory genes with Apoe among the most upregulated — occurs in ALS, MS and AD mouse models and around neuritic Aβ-plaques in human AD brain.

  facs-isolated fcrls+ sorted app-ps1 nanostring sequencing quantitative

• Identification of the proliferation/differentiation switch in the cellular network of multicellular organisms.

  PMID 17166053 · PMC1664705 · PLoS computational biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Integrating interactome and transcriptome data reveals a pair of transcriptionally anticorrelated network modules (P and D) each comprising hundreds of genes, present across individuals and species.

  postmortem genes gene proteins microarray protein-protein hierarchical

• Gene expression levels assessed by oligonucleotide microarray analysis and quantitative real-time RT-PCR -- how well do they correlate?

  PMID 15854232 · PMC1142514 · BMC genomics · 2005 · 8 claims · 2 setups

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  Correlations between qRT-PCR and microarray data are generally strong, especially when identical transcripts are targeted by both methods (r = 0.89 for fold-change).

  pediatric same oligonucleotide quantitative

• An online database for brain disease research.

  PMID 16594998 · PMC1489945 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  SMRIDB is a comprehensive web-based database integrating gene expression data and clinical metadata to aid understanding of the genetic effects of brain disease (bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression)

  postmortem individual disease studies microarray array gene-by-gene

• The relationship between PLOD1 expression level and glioma prognosis investigated using public databases.

  PMID 34040895 · PMC8127981 · PeerJ · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PLOD1 mRNA expression is significantly higher in glioma tissue than in normal brain tissue

  glioma gbm cancer gene online genomic

• Autoencoder Networks Decipher the Association between Lung Cancer and Alzheimer's Disease.

  PMID 36518809 · PMC9744611 · Computational intelligence and neuroscience · 2022 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Autoencoder networks based on 266 shared DEGs reveal a comorbidity (positive) relationship between Alzheimer's disease and lung cancer.

  brain lung integrated shared microarray differential autoencoder

• Exploring Gene Expression Patterns in Alzheimer's Disease Using a Human Microarray Data Meta-Analysis.

  PMID 41744654 · PMC12938635 · Biology · 2026 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  AD brains show a distinct transcriptomic profile with up-regulation of immune/inflammation genes and down-regulation of synapse/neuronal-signaling genes

  brain sub-studies down-regulated affymetrix quality normalization

• 3' tag digital gene expression profiling of human brain and universal reference RNA using Illumina Genome Analyzer.

  PMID 19917133 · PMC2781828 · BMC genomics · 2009 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  3' tag DGE transcript profiles are highly reproducible between technical and biological replicates, across libraries made at different labs, and across two generations of Illumina Genome Analyzers (GA I and GA II).

  brain hbrr topo-cloned tag microarray quantitative

• High resolution analysis of the human transcriptome: detection of extensive alternative splicing independent of transcriptional activity.

  PMID 19804644 · PMC2768739 · BMC genetics · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The human GWSA uses exon body and exon-exon junction probes to directly measure over 280,000 known and predicted splicing events genome-wide.

  universal same lim erythrocyte genome-wide cross-platform rt-pcr

• Gene expression profiles of HIV-1-infected glia and brain: toward better understanding of the role of astrocytes in HIV-1-associated neurocognitive disorders.

  PMID 19697136 · PMC3107560 · Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2010 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Astrocyte gene expression dysregulation resulting from HIV-1 exposure may contribute to HIV-1 neuropathogenesis

  fetal astrocytes brain macaque rapid microarray correlational

• Digital sorting of complex tissues for cell type-specific gene expression profiles.

  PMID 23497278 · PMC3626856 · BMC bioinformatics · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The Digital Sorting Algorithm (DSA) deconvolves mixed tissue expression into cell type-specific profiles using only marker genes, without requiring prior knowledge of cell type frequencies or in vitro pure-cell profiles.

  liver im-9 immune deconvolved microarray simulation roc

• Ontological Discovery Environment: a system for integrating gene-phenotype associations.

  PMID 19733230 · PMC2783409 · Genomics · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ODE is a web-based system for storing, sharing, retrieving and analyzing phenotype-centered genomic data sets across species and experimental systems

  strains integrated bipartite phish gene differential pairwise