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).

• Comparative genomics of the syndecans defines an ancestral genomic context associated with matrilins in vertebrates.

  PMID 16620374 · PMC1464127 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Syndecan-encoding sequences are present in Cnidaria and throughout the Bilateria, showing deep conservation of the family.

  invertebrate syndecan full-length chicken wu-blastp clustalw tcoffee

• Large-scale trends in the evolution of gene structures within 11 animal genomes.

  PMID 16518452 · PMC1386723 · PLoS computational biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Change in intron–exon gene structure is gradual, clock-like, and largely independent of coding-sequence (protein) evolution

  annotated animal unannotated comparative all-against-all neighbor-joining

• Bias of selection on human copy-number variants.

  PMID 16482228 · PMC1366494 · PLoS genetics · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Human CNVs are significantly overrepresented near telomeres and centromeres and enriched in simple tandem repeats relative to the genome as a whole

  genome human-mouse cnv-encompassed inbred comparative randomization molecular

• Comparative genomics of emerging human ehrlichiosis agents.

  PMID 16482227 · PMC1366493 · PLoS genetics · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Ehrlichia spp. and Anaplasma spp. display a unique large expansion of immunodominant outer membrane proteins (OMP-1/P44/Msp2 family) facilitating antigenic variation

  phagocytophilum representative concatenated rickettsiales whole-genome comparative phylogenetic

• Gene losses during human origins.

  PMID 16464126 · PMC1361800 · PLoS biology · 2006 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  A comparative genomic screen identified 67 new human-specific nonprocessed pseudogenes, bringing the total (with 13 from prior literature) to 80 human-specific pseudogenes.

  pseudogene chimpanzee human-specific population comparative phylogenetic fisher's

• Comparative analysis of cancer genes in the human and chimpanzee genomes.

  PMID 16438707 · PMC1382208 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  All 333 examined human cancer genes have intact, highly conserved orthologs in the chimpanzee genome (99.38% protein identity).

  chimpanzee non-human cancer comparative pcr targeted

• Comparative genomics of multidrug resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii.

  PMID 16415984 · PMC1326220 · PLoS genetics · 2006 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  A. baumannii strain AYE contains an 86-kb genomic resistance island (AbaR1) clustering 45 of its 52 resistance genes, the largest resistance island described to date

  baumannii resistance clinical whole-genome comparative sequence

• miRNAMap: genomic maps of microRNA genes and their target genes in mammalian genomes.

  PMID 16381831 · PMC1347497 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  miRNAMap integrates known miRNA genes from miRBase, literature-curated validated targets, and computationally predicted miRNA genes and targets for human, mouse, rat and dog.

  conserved putative mirna-target normal comparative machine mirna

• Analysis of sequence conservation at nucleotide resolution.

  PMID 18166073 · PMC2230682 · PLoS computational biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  SCONE (Sequence CONservation Evaluation) is a novel method that estimates evolutionary rate and a neutrality p-value for individual nucleotide positions in a multiple sequence alignment.

  encode population comparative snp functional

• Diversity of preferred nucleotide sequences around the translation initiation codon in eukaryote genomes.

  PMID 18086709 · PMC2241899 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Preferred nucleotide sequences around the initiation codon are diverse among eukaryote species, but differences roughly reflect evolutionary relationships between species

  eukaryote genes hexanucleotide saccharomyces comparative cluster hexanucleotide

• Comparative genomics search for losses of long-established genes on the human lineage.

  PMID 18085818 · PMC2134963 · PLoS computational biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A novel comparative genomics method (TransMap-based syntenic mapping of gene structures between human, mouse, and dog) can detect losses of well-established single-copy genes without relying on sequence homology to a parental gene, distinguishing them from typical duplication- or retrotransposition-derived pseudogenes.

  dog genome chimp gorilla comparative overlap visual

• From endosymbiont to host-controlled organelle: the hijacking of mitochondrial protein synthesis and metabolism.

  PMID 17983265 · PMC2062474 · PLoS computational biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  There has been a large turnover of the mitochondrial proteome during evolution: cell envelope synthesis proteins virtually disappeared, and replication, transcription, cell division, transport, regulation, and signal transduction proteins were replaced by eukaryotic proteins

  alpha-proteobacterial reclinomonas reconstructed yeast comparative phylogenomic cog

• A macaque's-eye view of human insertions and deletions: differences in mechanisms.

  PMID 17941704 · PMC1976337 · PLoS computational biology · 2007 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Insertion and deletion rates are differentially associated with replication- versus recombination-related genomic features, indicating the two mutation types are driven in part by distinct mechanisms

  chimpanzee non-overlapping 1-mb 100-kb comparative regression kruskal-wallis

• Comparative genomic analysis of Campylobacter jejuni associated with Guillain-Barré and Miller Fisher syndromes: neuropathogenic and enteritis-associated isolates can share high levels of genomic similarity.

  PMID 17919333 · PMC2174954 · BMC genomics · 2007 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  GBS/MFS strains are genomically heterogeneous, falling into about six major lineages rather than a single clonal group

  jejuni subset matched comparative fisher's hierarchical

• Comparative metagenomics revealed commonly enriched gene sets in human gut microbiomes.

  PMID 17916580 · PMC2533590 · DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes · 2007 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Adult and weaned-children gut microbiota show high functional (gene-content) uniformity despite taxonomic differences, while unweaned infant microbiota show high inter-individual variation in both taxonomic and gene composition.

  fecal assembled predicted gut whole-genome gene reciprocal

• Challenges and standards in integrating surveys of structural variation.

  PMID 17597783 · PMC2698291 · Nature genetics · 2007 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  There is no standard approach to collecting, assessing the quality of, or describing structural variants, risking the entire genome eventually being labeled 'structurally variant' based on uncurated nondisease-sample data.

  genomic hapmap reference independent comparative snp fosmid

• Does distance matter? Variations in alternative 3' splicing regulation.

  PMID 17704130 · PMC2018619 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Alternative 3' splice sites can be distinguished from constitutive splice sites by a combination of sequence/conservation properties that vary depending on the distance between the splice sites.

  intronic human-mouse same comparative polypyrimidine branch

• Fast-evolving noncoding sequences in the human genome.

  PMID 17578567 · PMC2394770 · Genome biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  1,356 conserved noncoding sequences show human-specific accelerated substitution rates (ANC sequences) relative to chimpanzee

  chimpanzee genome hapmap comparative genomic segmental

• Comparative genomic analysis of three Leishmania species that cause diverse human disease.

  PMID 17572675 · PMC2592530 · Nature genetics · 2007 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  L. infantum and L. braziliensis genomes were sequenced and show marked conservation of synteny with L. major, with only ~200 genes differentially distributed among the three species

  infantum major braziliensis leishmania whole-genome comparative pcr

• Comparative genomics reveals functional transcriptional control sequences in the Prop1 gene.

  PMID 17557180 · PMC1998882 · Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2007 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  A BAC transgene containing Prop1 completely rescues the Prop1 mutant (dwarf) phenotype, showing all necessary regulatory elements lie within the BAC

  pig lemur cv-1 b-prop1 bac comparative transient