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).

• Colorectal Cancer Prediction Based on Weighted Gene Co-Expression Network Analysis and Variational Auto-Encoder.

  PMID 32825264 · PMC7563725 · Biomolecules · 2020 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  Combining WGCNA-derived hub genes with a VAE-derived 10-dimensional representation as features for an SVM classifier achieves high accuracy (0.9692) and AUC (0.9981) for colorectal cancer prediction.

  colorectal combined differentially crc microarray differential weighted

• Screening of Diagnostic Biomarkers and Immune Infiltration Characteristics Linking Rheumatoid Arthritis and Rosacea Based on Bioinformatics Analysis.

  PMID 39104909 · PMC11299729 · Journal of inflammation research · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  277 co-expressed DEGs shared between RA and rosacea are enriched in immune processes and chemokine-mediated signaling pathways

  synovial rosacea co-expressed serum microarray weighted protein-protein

• Interpretable artificial intelligence based on immunoregulation-related genes predicts prognosis and immunotherapy response in lung adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 41048340 · PMC12491262 · Frontiers in bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  LUAD samples cluster into IRG-high and IRG-low groups, with the IRG-high group showing significantly better survival and greater immune cell infiltration.

  luad geo degs immunotherapy-treated bulk weighted ppi

• Machine learning-based identification of an immunotherapy-related signature to enhance outcomes and immunotherapy responses in melanoma.

  PMID 39355255 · PMC11442245 · Frontiers in immunology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  66 consensus immunotherapy prognostic genes (CITPGs) were identified from the intersection of WGCNA modules, immunotherapy responder-vs-non-responder DEGs, and tumor-vs-normal DEGs

  melanoma tcga-skcm prjeb23709 microarray wgcna differential consensus

• Meta-analysis of inter-species liver co-expression networks elucidates traits associated with common human diseases.

  PMID 20019805 · PMC2787626 · PLoS computational biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A novel semi-parametric meta-analysis method (based on a gene-centric Glass's d effect size) outperforms existing parametric and non-parametric meta-analysis methods at identifying functionally coherent gene pairs across species.

  liver simulated conserved nearly gene simulation kolmogorov-smirnov

• Co-regulation and function of FOXM1/RHNO1 bidirectional genes in cancer.

  PMID 33890574 · PMC8104967 · eLife · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  FOXM1 and RHNO1 are head-to-head bidirectional genes co-amplified and co-expressed in HGSC, regulated by a shared bidirectional promoter (F/R-BDP).

  tcga ft282 fte hgsc copy expression rt-qpcr

• 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

  gtex lncap heart breast bulk rna-seq meta-analysis

• Weighted gene co-expression network analysis reveals that CXCL10, IRF7, MX1, RSAD2, and STAT1 are related to the chronic stage of spinal cord injury.

  PMID 34532385 · PMC8421925 · Annals of translational medicine · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The brown co-expression module (775 genes) is the module most significantly associated with the chronic stage of SCI

  spinal brown sci microarray functional protein-protein

• Comprehensive analysis of transcriptomics and radiomics revealed the potential of TEDC2 as a diagnostic marker for lung adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 39553728 · PMC11569783 · PeerJ · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  WGCNA identified 214 key genes in the blue module most correlated with LUAD

  tcga-luad merged tedc2-associated a549 wgcna differential machine

• Integrative transcriptomics and single-cell transcriptomics analyses reveal potential biomarkers and mechanisms of action in papillary thyroid carcinoma.

  PMID 40520228 · PMC12162626 · Frontiers in genetics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ENTPD1, SERPINA1, and TACSTD2 are potential transcriptomic biomarkers for PTC

  ptc degs key bulk kegg weighted

• Exploiting convergent phenotypes to derive a pan-cancer cisplatin response gene expression signature.

  PMID 37076665 · PMC10115855 · NPJ precision oncology · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A convergent-phenotype-based seed gene/co-expression method can extract consensus gene expression signatures predictive of response to chemotherapeutic drugs in the GDSC database

  epithelial-based tcga gdsc muscle-invasive differential co-expression signature

• TGF-β-mediated activation of fibroblasts in cervical cancer: implications for tumor microenvironment and prognosis.

  PMID 40124621 · PMC11929507 · PeerJ · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TGF-β signaling pathway activity is significantly increased in fibroblasts from cervical cancer samples compared to normal samples and correlates with tumor proliferation and differentiation.

  cervical tcga-cesc hela scrna-seq scrna-seq wgcna cox

• Integrative transcriptomic and machine learning framework reveals candidate genes and potential mechanisms of aflatoxin B1 exposure in breast cancer.

  PMID 41688730 · PMC12982753 · Scientific reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Twenty-two genes lie at the intersection of AFB1-predicted targets and breast cancer-associated co-expression modules/DEGs

  afb1 breast training candidate computational bulk weighted

• Comprehensive analysis of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors to predict the drug resistance, immune microenvironment, and prognosis in stomach adenocarcinomas.

  PMID 38529307 · PMC10962337 · PeerJ · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PPARA, PPARD and PPARG are more abnormally expressed in STAD samples and cell lines compared to most of 32 cancer types in TCGA

  cancer tcga-stad stomach ges1 rna-seq pearson gsva

• Variations in the transcriptome of Alzheimer's disease reveal molecular networks involved in cardiovascular diseases.

  PMID 18842138 · PMC2760875 · Genome biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  AD-related genes (APOE, A2M, PON2, MAP4) and CVD-associated genes (COMT, CBS, WNK1) congregate in a single co-expression module, linking AD and CVD at the transcriptional level

  entorhinal subjects expression differentially microarray significance principal

• Unveiling prognostics biomarkers of tyrosine metabolism reprogramming in liver cancer by cross-platform gene expression analyses.

  PMID 32542016 · PMC7295234 · PloS one · 2020 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Five tyrosine catabolic enzymes (TAT, HPD, HGD, GSTZ1, FAH) are downregulated in HCC versus normal liver at mRNA and protein levels

  cancer tcga-lihc gse89377 hcc pan-cancer rna-seq stage-wise

• Exploring the key genetic association between chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma through integrated bioinformatics.

  PMID 37501719 · PMC10369079 · Frontiers in genetics · 2023 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  CEL (carboxyl ester lipase) is the real hub gene shared between CP and PDAC and is markedly downregulated in PDAC

  pancreatic gse143754 pdac tcga microarray wgcna differential

• Multi-scale integrative analyses identify THBS2(+) cancer-associated fibroblasts as a key orchestrator promoting aggressiveness in early-stage lung adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 35547750 · PMC9065207 · Theranostics · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  THBS2 is a tumor size-independent biomarker that robustly predicts post-surgical OS and RFS in multiple independent early-stage LUAD cohorts

  tcga paired thbs2+ scrna-seq wgcna scrna-seq gsea

• Identification of a novel 10 immune-related genes signature as a prognostic biomarker panel for gastric cancer.

  PMID 34382341 · PMC8446556 · Cancer medicine · 2021 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  A 10 immune-related gene signature (BMPR1B, GHR, IL11RA, INHBB, NPR3, OBP2A, PTN, R3HDML, TAC1, TPM2) was constructed via WGCNA combined with LASSO-Cox and predicts overall survival in gastric cancer

  gastric tcga-stad microarray rna-seq immune

• Screening of core genes prognostic for sepsis and construction of a ceRNA regulatory network.

  PMID 36855106 · PMC9976425 · BMC medical genomics · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  RNA-seq of peripheral blood from 23 sepsis patients and 10 healthy controls identifies 1,044 DEmRNAs, 66 DEmiRNAs and 155 DElncRNAs.

  peripheral demrnas blood thp-1 rna-seq annotation wgcna