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).

• Estimating and Correcting for Off-Target Cellular Contamination in Brain Cell Type Specific RNA-Seq Data.

  PMID 33746712 · PMC7966716 · Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2021 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  A computational method using high-quality scRNA-seq reference data can estimate per-sample, per-cell-type off-target contamination coefficients in sctRNA-seq datasets.

  brain cortex allen lcm-seq lcm-seq scrna-seq marker

• Roar: detecting alternative polyadenylation with standard mRNA sequencing libraries.

  PMID 27756200 · PMC5069797 · BMC bioinformatics · 2016 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Roar, a method using PRE/POST read counts around annotated APA sites to compute an m/M ratio and a ratio-of-ratios (roar) statistic, detects differential 3'UTR shortening/lengthening from standard RNA-seq libraries.

  testes normal gene rna-seq sapas cdna

• Social complexity, life-history and lineage influence the molecular basis of castes in vespid wasps.

  PMID 36828829 · PMC9958023 · Nature communications · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A shared genetic toolkit of caste-associated genes exists across vespid wasp species spanning different levels of social complexity

  vespid single-copy brain caste-biased bulk orthology principal

• DNA methylation and mRNA expression of SYN III, a candidate gene for schizophrenia.

  PMID 19102774 · PMC2630979 · BMC medical genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Variation in SYN III distal CpG island methylation is not related to schizophrenia in the population sample or in a monozygotic twin pair discordant for schizophrenia

  brain blood non-human semi-quantitative sodium bisulfite

• Stemming cancer: functional genomics of cancer stem cells in solid tumors.

  PMID 18561035 · PMC2758383 · Stem cell reviews · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cancer stem cells are a minority tumor subpopulation that alone can maintain indefinite tumor growth, as shown by serial transplantation experiments

  solid fetal cd133+ breast facs neurosphere genome-wide

• 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

• Geometric Reliability of Super-Resolution Reconstructed Images from Clinical Fetal MRI in the Second Trimester.

  PMID 37284977 · PMC10406722 · Neuroinformatics · 2023 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  NiftyMIC and MIALSRTK provide reliable SR reconstructed volumes suitable for biometric assessments

  fetal same reconstructed t2w b-ffe super-resolution

• A comparative study of techniques for differential expression analysis on RNA-Seq data.

  PMID 25119138 · PMC4132098 · PloS one · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  edgeR performs slightly better than DESeq and Cuffdiff2 in terms of the ability to uncover true positives.

  brain neurospheres lymphoblastoid simulation single-end paired-end rna-seq

• 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

• Under the Shadow: Old-biased Genes Are Subject to Weak Purifying Selection at Both the Tissue- and Cell Type-Specific Levels.

  PMID 41092135 · PMC12569596 · Genome biology and evolution · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Age-related decrease in transcriptome conservation (ADICT) is commonly found in ageing tissues of nonmammalian species (chicken brain, killifish liver and skin, fruit fly brain).

  gallus nothobranchius drosophila heterocephalus bulk single-cell

• 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

• Endothelial Adgrl2 Expression and Alternative Splicing Controls the Cerebrovasculature.

  PMID 41876233 · PMC13108381 · The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Endothelial cell-specific Adgrl2 deletion impairs cerebrovascular integrity (blood–brain barrier).

  p30 cortex brain single-molecule single-cell immunohistochemistry

• Pathway-targeting gene matrix for Drosophila gene set enrichment analysis.

  PMID 34710184 · PMC8553153 · PloS one · 2021 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Gene matrix files for GSEA are largely unavailable for Drosophila, limiting pathway-level enrichment analysis in this model organism

  drosophila reactome kegg gene fluorescence manual

• 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

• Brain-specific proteins decline in the cerebrospinal fluid of humans with Huntington disease.

  PMID 18984577 · PMC2649809 · Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Brain-specific proteins are 1.8 times more likely to be observed in CSF than in plasma

  csf brain normal 2d-dige label-free isotopic

• Neurofibrillary tau pathology modulated by genetic variation of alpha-synuclein.

  PMID 18661559 · PMC8957216 · Annals of neurology · 2008 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  The SNCA intron 4 marker rs2572324 is associated with the extent of neurofibrillary tangle (Braak stage) pathology.

  postmortem whole-genome-amplified vantaa85+ neuropathological immunohistochemistry snp

• Genetical genomic determinants of alcohol consumption in rats and humans.

  PMID 19874574 · PMC2777866 · BMC biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A genetical genomics approach combining brain gene expression, bQTL, and eQTL analysis in HXB/BXH RI rats identifies candidate genes for alcohol consumption

  hxb naive caucasian two-bottle behavioral brain

• 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

• Systems Analysis Reveals Ageing-Related Perturbations in Retinoids and Sex Hormones in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases.

  PMID 34680427 · PMC8533098 · Biomedicines · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  AD and PD patients can be stratified by transcriptomic clustering into three subclasses with distinct gene expression and metabolic profiles

  post-mortem brain zebrafish bulk single-cell unsupervised

• 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