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 taxonomy of epithelial human cancer and their metastases.

  PMID 20017941 · PMC2806369 · BMC medical genomics · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Unsupervised hierarchical clustering of 1566 primary epithelial tumors yields large tissue-enriched clusters (breast, colon/GI, lung, ovary, kidney) plus smaller prostate, thyroid-kidney, and mixed clusters

  epithelial tumor metastatic breast microarray gene fisher

• CLEAN: CLustering Enrichment ANalysis.

  PMID 19640299 · PMC2734555 · BMC bioinformatics · 2009 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  The gene-specific CLEAN score improves reproducibility of cluster analysis conclusions across independent datasets compared to the traditional cluster-wide score (cwCLEAN).

  four breast combined hierarchical cluster csimm-based

• Proteome analysis enables separate clustering of normal breast, benign breast and breast cancer tissues.

  PMID 12865921 · PMC2394238 · British journal of cancer · 2003 · 6 claims · 3 setups

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  Hierarchical cluster analysis of 2-DE proteome data can distinguish normal breast, benign breast, and breast cancer tissues based on protein expression profiles

  breast two-dimensional hierarchical mann-whitney

• Protein expression patterns in primary carcinoma of the vagina.

  PMID 15199389 · PMC2409807 · British journal of cancer · 2004 · 5 claims · 4 setups

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  Cluster analysis of 2-DE proteomic data allows accurate discrimination between normal vaginal mucosa, primary vaginal carcinoma and primary cervical carcinoma

  fresh-frozen excised normal same two-dimensional matrix-assisted hierarchical

• High-resolution aCGH and expression profiling identifies a novel genomic subtype of ER negative breast cancer.

  PMID 17925008 · PMC2246289 · Genome biology · 2007 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A novel subtype of high-grade ER-negative breast cancer exists, characterized by a low genomic instability index (GII)

  breast computational array-cgh gene bac

• Artificial Intelligence Meets Whole Slide Images: Deep Learning Model Shapes an Immune-Hot Tumor and Guides Precision Therapy in Bladder Cancer.

  PMID 36245985 · PMC9553530 · Journal of oncology · 2022 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  A deep learning WSI cluster (three-class mini batch K-means on Inception V3 features) is associated with overall survival (P<0.001) and is an independent prognostic predictor (P=0.031) in BLCA.

  tcga-blca blca tcga deep transfer-learning neural-network

• 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

  prostate subset lncap 22rv1 microrna quantitative western

• Single-cell RNA-sequencing of circulating tumour cells: A practical guide to workflow and translational applications.

  PMID 41053409 · PMC12500777 · Cancer metastasis reviews · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A 12-step CTC-specific scRNA-seq workflow is proposed, spanning enrichment, single-cell sorting, sequencing, data pre-processing and downstream analysis, to overcome methodological inconsistencies in the field.

  ctcs pooled single neuroblastoma scrna-seq multi-omics

• 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.

  breast colorectal brca representative gene comparative multi-omic

• CoINcIDE: A framework for discovery of patient subtypes across multiple datasets.

  PMID 26961683 · PMC4784276 · Genome medicine · 2016 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  CoINcIDE is a novel framework for discovering patient subtypes across multiple datasets that requires no between-dataset transformations (e.g., batch correction)

  breast ovarian simulated gene consensus simulated

• 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

• In vivo induction of activin A-producing alveolar macrophages supports the progression of lung cell carcinoma.

  PMID 36650150 · PMC9845242 · Nature communications · 2023 · 8 claims · 9 setups

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  Alveolar macrophages support lung cancer cell proliferation and contribute to unfavourable outcomes.

  lung llc c57bl sorted immunohistochemistry count flow

• Hierarchical classification-based pan-cancer methylation analysis to classify primary cancer.

  PMID 38066424 · PMC10709847 · BMC bioinformatics · 2023 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  CHCT, a hierarchical classification tool, splits classification of 30 cancer types into ten smaller subproblems using a two-tier architecture to classify primary cancer by methylation profile

  cancer clinical training independent methylation upgma random

• 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

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  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.

  gastric colorectal additional breast xenium visium histology

• Characterisation and protein expression profiling of annexins in colorectal cancer.

  PMID 18071363 · PMC2361450 · British journal of cancer · 2008 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Annexins A1, A2, A4 and A11 are overexpressed in primary colorectal cancer compared with normal colon

  dukes colorectal immunised whole-cell gel immunohistochemistry elisa

• Identification and analysis of co-occurrence networks with NetCutter.

  PMID 18781200 · PMC2526157 · PloS one · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Random sampling from a complete permutation set of the bipartite graph permits co-occurrence analysis with optimal stringency, and the edge-swapping (ES) model closely approximates this and is the preferred null-model among six tested.

  publime bipartite randomized co-occurrence null-model signal-to-noise

• Comprehensive analysis of metastatic gastric cancer tumour cells using single-cell RNA-seq.

  PMID 33441952 · PMC7806779 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  CDK12, ERBB2, and CLDN11 are overexpressed in metastatic lymph node gastric cancer and serve as candidate lymph node metastasis marker genes.

  tumour gastric qc-passed single-cell immunofluorescence immunohistochemistry

• Iterative class discovery and feature selection using Minimal Spanning Trees.

  PMID 15355552 · PMC520744 · BMC bioinformatics · 2004 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Iterating between MST-based clustering and t-statistic feature selection removes noise genes step-wise while sharpening the sample clustering

  simulated breast acute diffuse synthetic cdna microarray

• ECgene: genome annotation for alternative splicing.

  PMID 15608289 · PMC540072 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  ECgene combines genome-based EST clustering with a graph-theoretic transcript assembly procedure to predict gene models including alternative splicing events.

  brca2 rgs17 organs cdna genomic genome transcript

• Enhancing cell subpopulation discovery in cancer by integrating single-cell transcriptome and expressed variants.

  PMID 41647537 · PMC12869734 · Fundamental research · 2026 · 6 claims · 3 setups

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  scCluster, an end-to-end deep clustering model integrating gene expression and expressed variant (eSNP) features, stratifies cell subpopulations in cancer scRNA-seq data.

  raw real-world expressed gene deep