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).

• 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 by a discriminative index (DI) score representing classification power for distinguishing given groups, enabling intuitive selection of optimal biomarker genes.

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• Parsimonious Gene Correlation Network Analysis (PGCNA): a tool to define modular gene co-expression for refined molecular stratification in cancer.

  PMID 30993001 · PMC6459838 · NPJ systems biology and applications · 2019 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Retaining only the top ~3 most correlated edges per gene (EPG3) combined with FastUnfold clustering (termed PGCNA) produces gene co-expression modules with significantly better separation and enrichment of known biology than using all edges or other clustering methods.

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• Overview of microarray analysis of gene expression and its applications to cervical cancer investigation.

  PMID 18182341 · PMC7129792 · Taiwanese journal of obstetrics & gynecology · 2007 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  Oligonucleotide microarray and cDNA microarray are the two main microarray platforms used to study gene expression genome-wide.

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• Identification of genes associated with multiple cancers via integrative analysis.

  PMID 19919702 · PMC2785840 · BMC genomics · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Mc.TGD (Multi-cancer Threshold Gradient Descent) is the first regularized approach to conduct two-dimensional selection of genes with joint effects on cancer development across multiple cancers.

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• Prostate cancer genomics: towards a new understanding.

  PMID 19104501 · PMC2721916 · Nature reviews. Genetics · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Multiple GWAS have identified over a dozen replicated germline SNPs each associated with a modest increase in prostate cancer risk

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• Characterization of heterotypic interaction effects in vitro to deconvolute global gene expression profiles in cancer.

  PMID 17868458 · PMC2375029 · Genome biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Co-culture of certain breast cancer cell lines with stromal fibroblasts induces interferon-response genes (IRGs) in a subset of cancer cells

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• 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 simultaneously deconvolves bulk tumor expression into cancer, immune, and stromal compartments and clusters samples into cancer cell-intrinsic molecular subtypes, outputting subtype-specific reference profiles for the cohort rather than for individuals.

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• Interactome-transcriptome analysis reveals the high centrality of genes differentially expressed in lung cancer tissues.

  PMID 16188928 · PMC4631381 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2005 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Genes upregulated in squamous cell lung cancer are highly connected (well-connected) nodes in the protein interactome

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• Genomic profiling of microRNA and messenger RNA reveals deregulated microRNA expression in prostate cancer.

  PMID 18676839 · PMC2597340 · Cancer research · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  MicroRNA processing components (Dicer, DGCR8) and microRNA host genes (MCM7, C9orf5) are significantly up-regulated in prostate tumors versus non-tumor tissue

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• Molecular and Clinical Relevance of ZBTB38 Expression Levels in Prostate Cancer.

  PMID 32365491 · PMC7281456 · Cancers · 2020 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  ZBTB38 expression is decreased in localised prostate cancer and further decreased in metastatic prostate cancer compared to non-cancerous prostate tissue

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• 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

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• Interpretation of genomic data: questions and answers.

  PMID 18582627 · PMC2528831 · Seminars in hematology · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The main challenge in using genomic technology in cancer research is not managing the volume of data but the proper design, analysis, and reporting of studies.

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• Identification of candidate prostate cancer genes through comparative expression-profiling of seminal vesicle.

  PMID 18500686 · PMC2516917 · The Prostate · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Identified 32 genes (38 cDNAs) with an expression pattern of highest levels in seminal vesicle, lower in normal prostate, and lowest in prostate cancer

  normal prostate microarray cdna cross-tissue gene

• Indoleamine 2, 3-Dioxygenase 1 and CD8 Expression Profiling Revealed an Immunological Subtype of Colon Cancer With a Poor Prognosis.

  PMID 33425745 · PMC7793995 · Frontiers in oncology · 2020 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  The CD8A-high/IDO1-high colon cancer subtype (group IV*) has the worst survival despite high CD8 infiltrates.

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• 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

• Hypoxia-associated genes as predictors of outcomes in gastric cancer: a genomic approach.

  PMID 40129974 · PMC11931070 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A prognostic model built from five H1-specific hypoxia-associated transcription factors (EHF, EIF1AD, GLA, KEAP1, MAGED2) predicts overall survival in STAD, with high-risk patients showing significantly worse OS.

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• Bioinformatics Analysis of the Characteristics and Correlation of m6A Methylation in Breast Cancer Progression.

  PMID 35655723 · PMC9148239 · Contrast media & molecular imaging · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Breast cancer samples can be divided into 4 m6A subtypes (quiescent, m6A methylation, protein-binding, mixed) based on expression of m6A-related genes, with consistent proportions across datasets

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• Contribution of oncoproteomics to cancer biomarker discovery.

  PMID 17407558 · PMC1852117 · Molecular cancer · 2007 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Oncoproteomic biomarker panels (2-DE/MS-based) show higher sensitivity and specificity than currently used single tumor markers across multiple cancer types (Table 1)

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• 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

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• Systematic identification of ACE2 expression modulators reveals cardiomyopathy as a risk factor for mortality in COVID-19 patients.

  PMID 35012625 · PMC8743438 · Genome biology · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  GENEVA is a semi-automated, study-design-agnostic framework that mines large-scale public RNA-seq data to identify conditions modulating a gene of interest's expression

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