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 comprehensive framework for analysis of microRNA sequencing data in metastatic colorectal cancer.

  PMID 35047825 · PMC8759566 · NAR cancer · 2022 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 100

  Five miRNAs (Mir-210_3p, Mir-191_5p, Mir-8-P1b_3p [miR-141-3p], Mir-1307_5p, Mir-155_5p) are up-regulated at multiple metastatic sites in colorectal cancer.

  pcrc mli mirna-seq mirna mirna qpcr differential

• PanglaoDB: a web server for exploration of mouse and human single-cell RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 30951143 · PMC6450036 · Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2019 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 80

  PanglaoDB is a web server providing pre-processed and pre-computed analyses of >1054 single-cell experiments (>4 million cells) from mouse and human across many tissues and platforms.

  grch38 homogeneous per single single-cell clustering cell-type

• Cell-type annotation with accurate unseen cell-type identification using multiple references.

  PMID 37379341 · PMC10335708 · PLoS computational biology · 2023 · 8 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 68

  mtANN integrates multiple reference datasets and eight gene selection methods via ensemble learning (multiple deep classification models + majority voting) to improve cell-type annotation accuracy

  pbmc pancreas covid-19 scrna-seq

• HArmonized single-cell RNA-seq Cell type Assisted Deconvolution (HASCAD).

  PMID 37907883 · PMC10619225 · BMC medical genomics · 2023 · 6 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  HASCAD, a DNN-based cell composition deconvolution model, predicts the fractions of up to 15 immune cell types from bulk RNA-seq.

  pbmc bulk tcga-lihc harmony-symphony scrna-seq simulated bulk

• Bulk and single-cell characterisation of the immune heterogeneity of atherosclerosis identifies novel targets for immunotherapy.

  PMID 36855107 · PMC9974063 · BMC biology · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 70

  Integration of scRNA-seq datasets from human atherosclerosis samples identifies 28 distinct immune cell subpopulations with heterogeneity in tissue preference, genetics, function, immune dynamics, transcriptional regulators, metabolism, and cell communication.

  immune atherosclerotic cd4+ cd8+ scrna-seq gsea pseudotime

• Hierarchical cell-type identifier accurately distinguishes immune-cell subtypes enabling precise profiling of tissue microenvironment with single-cell RNA-sequencing.

  PMID 36681937 · PMC10025442 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 94

  HiCAT is a hierarchical, marker-based cell-type identifier that uses gene set analysis (GSA) scoring with markers structured in a three-level taxonomy tree (major-type, minor-type, subset)

  pbmc cord melanoma lung scrna-seq computational

• Single-Cell Transcriptomic Landscape of Right-Sided Colon Cancer Reveals Cellular and Molecular Features of Metastatic Potential.

  PMID 41898210 · PMC13024220 · Biomedicines · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 71

  Liver metastatic potential in RCC is marked by stem-like tumor states, metabolic plasticity, and microenvironmental remodeling.

  right-sided single integrated malignant single-cell copy dimensionality

• 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

  Has reproduction · 91

  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.

  solid muscle-invasive ccrcc for bulk single-cell scrna-seq

• Evaluating Distribution and Prognostic Value of New Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in HCC Based on a scRNA-Seq Study With CIBERSORTx.

  PMID 33043022 · PMC7527443 · Frontiers in medicine · 2020 · 5 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 78

  CIBERSORTx can combine scRNA-seq-derived signatures with bulk HCC transcriptomes to estimate proportions of 11 TIL subsets and infer cell-type-specific gene expression.

  hcc tcga geo single-cell bulk microarray

• Celline: a flexible tool for one-step retrieval and integrative analysis of public single-cell RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 41458999 · PMC12738925 · Frontiers in bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 64

  Celline is a Python package executing an entire scRNA-seq workflow (retrieval, preprocessing, integration, analysis) using single-line commands per step

  mus brain integrated homo droplet-based scrna-seq cell-type

• 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

  Has reproduction · 75

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

  p30 cortex brain single-molecule single-cell immunohistochemistry

• Leveraging RNA-seq deconvolution to improve complex in vitro model characterization.

  PMID 40701251 · PMC12391696 · The Journal of biological chemistry · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  RNA-seq deconvolution can predict cell type proportions from bulk RNA-seq using scRNA-seq references, offering a useful characterization tool for CIVMs where single-cell methods are impractical

  intestine rodent duodenal neonatal bulk scrna-seq marker

• Single cell analysis reveals the roles and regulatory mechanisms of type-I interferons in Parkinson's disease.

  PMID 38566100 · PMC10985960 · Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 55

  Microglia, endothelial cells, and pericytes exhibit the highest type I interferon (IFN-I) activity among PD midbrain cell types, with microglia showing markedly higher activity in PD.

  midbrain microglia substantia mptp-induced single-cell gene bulk

• Meta-analysis of COVID-19 single-cell studies confirms eight key immune responses.

  PMID 34675242 · PMC8531356 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 69

  Only 8 of 20 previously published COVID-19 scRNA-seq findings were reproducible across all relevant datasets in a standardized meta-analysis

  pbmc bronchoalveolar nasopharyngeal combined scrna-seq tcr bcr

• Lipopolysaccharide distinctively alters human microglia transcriptomes to resemble microglia from Alzheimer's disease mouse models.

  PMID 36254682 · PMC9612871 · Disease models & mechanisms · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 100

  iPSC-microglia show a shared core transcriptional response to ATPγS and to LPS+IFN-γ, suggesting a convergent mechanism of action

  ipsc-derived products microglia post-mortem single-cell ca2+ protein-protein

• CellFishing.jl: an ultrafast and scalable cell search method for single-cell RNA sequencing.

  PMID 30744683 · PMC6371477 · Genome biology · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 97

  CellFishing.jl searches prebuilt databases for cells with similar expression patterns with high accuracy and throughput using locality-sensitive hashing.

  baron2016 shekhar2016 plass2018 tabulamuris scrna-seq benchmarking self-mapping

• COVID-19 lung disease shares driver AT2 cytopathic features with Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

  PMID 35870428 · PMC9297827 · EBioMedicine · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  COVID-19 lung disease resembles IPF at a fundamental level, recapitulating ViP/IPF gene expression patterns, an IL15-centric cytokine storm, and AT2 cytopathic changes (injury, DNA damage, transient progenitor-state arrest, senescence/SASP).

  lung covid-19 interaction pre-clinical composite single-cell kaplan-meier

• Single-cell dissection of chronic lung allograft dysfunction reveals convergent and distinct fibrotic mechanisms.

  PMID 41122970 · PMC12581678 · JCI insight · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 75

  CLAD harbors disease-specific cellular subsets including Fibro.AT2 cells, exhausted CD8+ T cells, and superactivated macrophages

  clad covid-19 ffpe end-stage single-cell single-nucleus integrative

• An integrated single-cell and spatial proteotranscriptomics atlas of fibroblast-driven immunoregulation within the human adult oral cavity.

  PMID 42147490 · PMC13179517 · Cell press blue · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  Fibroblasts act as central regulators of structural immunity in the human oral cavity, forming peri-epithelial hubs enriched in effector cytokines

  oral ffpe scrna-seq integrated scrna-seq spatial ligand-receptor

• Differential Infiltration of Key Immune T-Cell Populations Across Malignancies Varying by Immunogenic Potential and the Likelihood of Response to Immunotherapy.

  PMID 39682743 · PMC11640164 · Cells · 2024 · 7 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction

  Immune-activation-related T-cell populations (APA, TRM, stem-like, early/late dysfunctional T-cells) are more heavily infiltrated in ICI-responsive malignancies (melanoma, bladder) than in poorly responsive ones (ovarian, pancreatic).

  melanoma bulk survival auroc