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).

• Cancer-predicting transcriptomic and epigenetic signatures revealed for ulcerative colitis in patient-derived epithelial organoids.

  PMID 29983891 · PMC6033374 · Oncotarget · 2018 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  UC patient-derived organoids histologically phenocopy primary UC tissue, showing disorganized stratified epithelium, reduced mucin/goblet cells, and non-uniform proliferation compared to non-IBD organoids

  patient-derived h3k27ac rna-seq chip-seq histology

• Cancer-wide in silico analyses using differentially expressed genes demonstrate the functions and clinical relevance of JAG, DLL, and NOTCH.

  PMID 39074091 · PMC11285958 · PloS one · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  JAG, DLL, and NOTCH family gene/protein expression varies diversely across 15 cancer types relative to normal tissue, sometimes discordant between mRNA and protein levels.

  tumor degs cancer jag bulk proteomics gene

• A platelet-related signature for predicting the prognosis and immunotherapy benefit in bladder cancer based on machine learning combinations.

  PMID 39280688 · PMC11399026 · Translational andrology and urology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  An Enet (alpha=0.4) machine-learning algorithm built from 10 platelet-related genes yields the optimal platelet-related signature (PRS) for bladder cancer prognosis, with average C-index 0.73

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• Machine learning developed an intratumor heterogeneity signature for predicting clinical outcome and immunotherapy benefit in bladder cancer.

  PMID 39100839 · PMC11291408 · Translational andrology and urology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  An integrative machine learning procedure (10 methods, 101 algorithm combinations) identified an Enet (alpha=0.2)-based intratumor heterogeneity-related signature (IRS) with the highest average C-index (0.69) across TCGA and GEO cohorts

  bladder skin bulk integrative immune

• Enabling Single-Cell Drug Response Annotations from Bulk RNA-Seq Using SCAD.

  PMID 36762572 · PMC10104628 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  SCAD, a transfer learning framework integrating adversarial discriminative domain adaptation (ADDA), can infer single-cell drug sensitivities by transferring knowledge from bulk RNA-seq pharmacogenomic data (GDSC) to scRNA-seq target domains

  pan-cancer pc9 451lu a375 bulk scrna-seq computational

• Pan-cancer evaluation of regulated cell death to predict overall survival and immune checkpoint inhibitor response.

  PMID 38538696 · PMC10973470 · NPJ precision oncology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  RCD score, defined as the sum of ssGSEA scores of 18 RCD signatures, quantifies overall RCD signaling in a sample

  tcga gtex scrna-seq cancer bulk scrna-seq transcriptomic

• DAGFormer: A graph-based domain adaptation approach for single-cell cancer drug response prediction.

  PMID 41417875 · PMC12795466 · PLoS computational biology · 2025 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  DAGFormer constructs cellular neighbor graphs using diverse topological strategies to represent intercellular interactions for drug response prediction

  pan-cancer jhu006 scc47 pc9 bulk scrna-seq

• Expression Patterns of Immune Genes Reveal Heterogeneous Subtypes of High-Risk Neuroblastoma.

  PMID 32629858 · PMC7408437 · Cancers · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Unsupervised biclustering of 283 NB-specific immune genes stratifies HR-NB into two reproducible subtypes: ultra-high-risk (UHR-NB) and (revised) HR-NB.

  pediatric target cohorts neuroblastoma bulk spectral kaplan-meier

• 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

• Community assessment of methods to deconvolve cellular composition from bulk gene expression.

  PMID 39191725 · PMC11350143 · Nature communications · 2024 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Most deconvolution methods accurately predict coarse-grained immune/stromal cell populations from bulk expression.

  admixtures cancer tumor bulk bulk admixture crowdsourced

• Wx: a neural network-based feature selection algorithm for transcriptomic data.

  PMID 31324856 · PMC6642261 · Scientific reports · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The Wx algorithm ranks genes using a DI score reflecting each gene's classification power for distinguishing two groups.

  tcga gse72056 gse40419 gse103322 bulk single-cell rna-seq

• Identification of phenotype-specific networks from paired gene expression-cell shape imaging data.

  PMID 35197309 · PMC8997347 · Genome research · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  WGCNA-derived gene coexpression modules from breast cancer cell line RNA-seq data correlate significantly with specific cell-shape features

  breast same gene identified bulk high-content regulon

• Correcting scale distortion in RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 39875825 · PMC11776150 · BMC bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Local averaging reveals expression-level-dependent biases that differ from sample to sample across all RNA-seq datasets studied, and are not corrected by conventional normalization (TPM/FPKM)

  tcga su2c gse47774 gtex bulk computational d'agostino

• Multi-scale integrative analyses identify THBS2(+) cancer-associated fibroblasts as a key orchestrator promoting aggressiveness in early-stage lung adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 35547750 · PMC9065207 · Theranostics · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  THBS2 is a tumor size-independent biomarker that robustly predicts post-surgical OS and RFS in multiple independent early-stage LUAD cohorts

  tcga paired thbs2+ scrna-seq wgcna scrna-seq gsea

• FRMD8 inhibits tumor metastasis in BRCA1-associated TNBC by negatively regulating tmTNF-α.

  PMID 40619383 · PMC12229025 · Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Low FRMD8 expression in BRCA1-mutant breast cancer cells significantly enhances metastatic potential to various organs

  tnbc geo breast frmd8 bulk meta-analysis single-cell

• Identification of succinylation-related genes in bladder cancer: integration of single-cell and transcriptomic data.

  PMID 42220482 · PMC13218921 · Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  KCTD16, CD3D, and GSDMB were identified as prognostic succinylation-related genes in BLCA

  soochow-blca tcga-blca gse13507 gse135337 bulk scrna-seq somatic

• Genetic demultiplexing of pooled single-cell RNA-sequencing samples in cancer facilitates effective experimental design.

  PMID 34553212 · PMC8458035 · GigaScience · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Genetic variation–based demultiplexing tools can be effectively deployed on cancer scRNA-seq tissue using a pooled experimental design, achieving high recall at acceptable precision-recall tradeoffs in both high-CNV (HGSOC) and high-SNV (lung adenocarcinoma) cancers, even with extremely high doublet proportions.

  high-grade lung hgsoc healthy single-cell matched doublet

• 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

• Transcriptomic-Based Quantification of the Epithelial-Hybrid-Mesenchymal Spectrum across Biological Contexts.

  PMID 35053177 · PMC8773604 · Biomolecules · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The 76GS, KS, and MLR EMT scoring metrics show concordant trends in quantifying EMP across bulk RNA-seq datasets spanning multiple cancer types

  bulk py2t mcf10a airway transcriptomic rna-seq single-cell

• iBRIDGE: A Data Integration Method to Identify Inflamed Tumors from Single-cell RNA-Seq Data and Differentiate Cell Type-Specific Markers of Immune-Cell Infiltration.

  PMID 37023414 · PMC10236149 · Cancer immunology research · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Malignant cells cluster by patient in scRNA-seq data while immune and stromal cells cluster by cell type, making malignant cells uniquely suited to carry patient-level inflamed/cold signal

  nsclc coad brca tcga scrna-seq bulk rna-seq