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).

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

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

  Has reproduction · 85

  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

• Smart spatial omics (S2-omics) optimizes region of interest selection to capture molecular heterogeneity in diverse tissues.

  PMID 41298871 · PMC12662399 · Nature cell biology · 2025 · 7 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 100

  S2-omics is an end-to-end workflow that automatically selects ROIs from H&E histology images to maximize molecular information content for spatial omics profiling.

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• Cell Specific eQTL Analysis without Sorting Cells.

  PMID 25955312 · PMC4425538 · PLoS genetics · 2015 · 5 claims · 3 setups

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  A genome-environment interaction meta-analysis on whole blood can predict neutrophil- and lymphocyte-specific cis-eQTLs without sorting cells.

  blood neutrophils blood neutrophil rna-seq

• The liver as an immunological barrier redefined by single-cell analysis.

  PMID 32176810 · PMC7218664 · Immunology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-cell RNA-seq enables unbiased characterization of liver cell states, developmental trajectories and rare immune populations that bulk averaging obscures, redefining liver cell-type mapping.

  c57bl liver whole-liver hepatocytes scrna-seq facs-based plate-based

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

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

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  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

• CTCF binding site classes exhibit distinct evolutionary, genomic, epigenomic and transcriptomic features.

  PMID 19922652 · PMC3091324 · Genome biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CTCF binding sites can be classified into three occupancy-based classes (LowOc, MedOc, HighOc) based on similarity to the CTCF PWM motif

  cd4+ hela imr90 embryonic chip-seq computational gene

• TFAP2 paralogs facilitate chromatin access for MITF at pigmentation and cell proliferation genes.

  PMID 35580127 · PMC9159589 · PLoS genetics · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Pigmentation genes are only expressed in mitfa-expressing zebrafish melanocyte-lineage cells that also express tfap2 paralogs

  gfp+ sk-mel-28 tfap2a single-cell crispr atac-seq

• 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

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  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)

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

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

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  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

• 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

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  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

• An individualized causal framework for learning intercellular communication networks that define microenvironments of individual tumors.

  PMID 36548438 · PMC9822106 · PLoS computational biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  An individualized causal analysis framework can discover tumor-specific intercellular communication networks (ICNs) from transcriptomic data

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• Deep transcriptomics reveals cell-specific isoforms of pan-neuronal genes.

  PMID 40379625 · PMC12084633 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Pan-neuronal genes (expressed in many/all neurons) harbor highly cell-specific splice variants/isoforms restricted to single or few neuron types.

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• 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

• Machine learning algorithm predicts fibrosis-related blood diagnosis markers of intervertebral disc degeneration.

  PMID 37915003 · PMC10619283 · BMC medical genomics · 2023 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 68

  CEP120 and SPDL1 are fibrosis-related diagnostic genes for IDD, identified via a random forest model from 29 differentially expressed fibrosis-related genes

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• Cell type-specific eQTL analysis of COVID-19 based on single-cell transcriptomic data.

  PMID 41064594 · PMC12501775 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 51

  Single-cell eQTL analysis across eight immune cell types identified 2593 genes whose expression is significantly associated with common genetic polymorphisms, with most genes showing cell type-specific effects

  pbmcs eight pbmc monocytes scrna-seq genetic cis-eqtl

• An integrative proteomics method identifies a regulator of translation during stem cell maintenance and differentiation.

  PMID 34772928 · PMC8590018 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  PISA-Express is a method that simultaneously measures protein expression and thermal stability (solubility) changes using only two samples per replicate per cell type

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• Enteroendocrine cell lineages that differentially control feeding and gut motility.

  PMID 36810133 · PMC10032656 · eLife · 2023 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Vil1-p2a-FlpO knock-in mice combined with lineage-specific Cre lines enable highly selective intersectional genetic access to major enteroendocrine cell lineages (serotonin/enterochromaffin, GLP1, CCK, somatostatin, GIP) in vivo

  neurod1-cre neurog3-cre intestinal vil1-p2a-flpo single-cell fluorescence-activated two-color

• Utilizing the codon adaptation index to evaluate the susceptibility to HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses in possible target cells in humans.

  PMID 36760235 · PMC9905242 · Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 71

  CAI is positively correlated with translational efficiency, supporting its use as a proxy for viral mRNA translation in cell types.

  monocyte-macrophage cd4+ kidney metabolic bulk single-cell codon

• 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

• 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

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  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