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).

• scSAMAC: saliency-adjusted masking induced attention contrastive learning for single-cell clustering.

  PMID 40131310 · PMC11934584 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 1 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  scSAMAC integrates contrastive learning and negative binomial (NB) losses into a VAE, extracting features via contrastive unit similarity while preserving intrinsic data characteristics to enhance robustness and generalization in clustering.

  scrna-seq scrna-seq

• Research and experimental verification on the mechanisms of cellular senescence in triple-negative breast cancer.

  PMID 38435998 · PMC10909353 · PeerJ · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  TNBC can be classified into three molecular subtypes (clusters 1, 2, 3) based on cellular senescence-related pathways, with distinct prognoses (cluster 1 best, then 2, then 3).

  tnbc tcga-tnbc mda-mb-468 single-cell bulk copy

• Integrative analysis reveals chemokines CCL2 and CXCL5 mediated shear stress-induced aortic dissection formation.

  PMID 38163105 · PMC10757018 · Heliyon · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 75

  Chemokines CCL2 and CXCL5 mediate a shear stress-induced 'Endothelial-Monocyte-Neutrophil' axis that contributes to aortic dissection development.

  ascending aortic clinical bulk bulk single-cell western

• Deconvolution of the hematopoietic stem cell microenvironment reveals a high degree of specialization and conservation.

  PMID 35494238 · PMC9046238 · iScience · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 60

  A customized bootstrapping/random-forest divide-and-conquer clustering pipeline integrating three scRNA-seq datasets robustly resolves cell states despite high cell-to-cell similarity within compartments

  bone endothelial independent integrated single-cell scrna-seq gene

• Single-Cell Transcriptome Analysis Revealed Heterogeneity and Identified Novel Therapeutic Targets for Breast Cancer Subtypes.

  PMID 37190091 · PMC10137100 · Cells · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 54

  Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of EPCAM+Lin- epithelial cells identified unique gene signatures/markers that distinguish ER+, HER2+, ER+HER2+, and TNBC molecular subtypes

  breast epcam+cd45-cd8a-cd4-cd19-cd3e cancer identified single-cell differential crispr-cas9

• A novel oxidative stress-related gene signature as an indicator of prognosis and immunotherapy responses in HNSCC.

  PMID 38157249 · PMC10781479 · Aging · 2023 · 6 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  A nine-gene oxidative stress-related scoring (OSRS) model (AREG, CES1, CSTA, FDCSP, JCHAIN, IFFO2, PGLYRP4, SPOCK2, SPINK6) predicts overall survival in HNSCC.

  tcga-hnscc gse41613 gse103322 prjeb23709 bulk single-cell immunotherapy

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

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

  Has reproduction · 100

  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

• Creation of a Single Cell RNASeq Meta-Atlas to Define Human Liver Immune Homeostasis.

  PMID 34335581 · PMC8322955 · Frontiers in immunology · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 63

  Independent human liver immune scRNA-seq datasets can be combined into an integrated meta-atlas in which all datasets co-cluster, despite differing cell-type proportions between studies.

  liver combined normal differential scrna-seq integrated reference

• Allele-specific immune gene quantification and expression analysis in single-cell RNA-seq data.

  PMID 41229397 · PMC12604667 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 75

  scIGD is a Snakemake-based workflow that automates HLA allele-typing and allele-specific expression quantification from scRNA-seq data.

  aida merkel-cell 20k myeloma wta amplicon-based

• 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

• FEM: mining biological meaning from cell level in single-cell RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 34909283 · PMC8641482 · PeerJ · 2021 · 7 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 75

  The FEM algorithm converts each cell's gene expression matrix (GEM) into a functional expression matrix by applying Fisher's exact test enrichment per cell and per gene set, then encoding adjusted p-values as information content.

  peripheral pancreas liver pbmc scrna-seq differential dimensionality

• ScLRTC: imputation for single-cell RNA-seq data via low-rank tensor completion.

  PMID 34844559 · PMC8628418 · BMC genomics · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  scLRTC imputes dropout entries closest to the original expression values on simulated datasets, outperforming other state-of-the-art methods by SSE and PCC.

  usoskin pollen zeisel yan scrna-seq umap masking

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

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

  Has reproduction · 68

  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

• A single-cell survey of Drosophila blood.

  PMID 32396065 · PMC7237219 · eLife · 2020 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 94

  scRNA-seq of Drosophila larval hemocytes across unwounded, wounded, and wasp-infested conditions resolves 17 clusters spanning plasmatocytes, crystal cells, lamellocytes, and a non-hemocyte population.

  drosophila single-cell quantitative 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

• Unraveling the timeline of gene expression: A pseudotemporal trajectory analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 37994351 · PMC10663991 · F1000Research · 2023 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  A reproducible R-based workflow combines Seurat (QC, clustering, integration), monocle3 (trajectory inference), and edgeR (pseudo-bulk time course analysis) to perform single-cell pseudotemporal time course analysis.

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• 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

• 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

  Has reproduction · 94

  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

• 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

• Development of double-positive thymocytes at single-cell resolution.

  PMID 33771202 · PMC8004397 · Genome medicine · 2021 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 86

  DP thymocytes can be classified into blast, rearrangement, and selection subtypes, distinguishable by surface markers CD2 and Ly6d

  thymocytes sorted thymocyte scrna-seq flow immunofluorescence