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).

• The truth about mouse, human, worms and yeast.

  PMID 15601543 · PMC3525071 · Human genomics · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Comparing genomes in pairs or larger sets (mouse-human, C. elegans-C. briggsae, multiple Saccharomyces, human-pufferfish, etc.) reveals unsuspected genes and helps eliminate false-positive gene predictions

  mouse-human homo tetraodon region comparative est cross-species

• Intronic alternative splicing regulators identified by comparative genomics in nematodes.

  PMID 16839192 · PMC1500816 · PLoS computational biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Conserved intronic elements flanking alternative exons occur more often than expected from total intron sequence, consistent with selective pressure for splicing regulation

  elegans database transgenic comparative est cross-species

• A comparison of programmed cell death between species.

  PMID 11178240 · PMC138857 · Genome biology · 2000 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The core apoptotic pathway (CED-3/caspases, CED-4/Apaf-1, CED-9/Bcl-2, EGL-1) is conserved across C. elegans, Drosophila, and mammals.

  elegans mammalian drosophila transgenic whole-genome kinetic ectopic

• Comparative genomics.

  PMID 14624258 · PMC261895 · PLoS biology · 2003 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Conserved DNA between species tends to encode shared functional features, while divergent DNA underlies species differences

  caenorhabditis yeast mammalian vertebrate whole-genome comparative interspecies-similarity-informed

• The genome of Brugia malayi - all worms are not created equal.

  PMID 18952001 · PMC2668601 · Parasitology international · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Comparative genome analysis shows conserved long-range synteny but divergent local gene order between B. malayi and C. elegans, reflecting distinct evolutionary trajectories of parasitic and free-living lineages.

  malayi elegans wbm-infected filarial whole-genome genome-wide comparative

• Investigating hookworm genomes by comparative analysis of two Ancylostoma species.

  PMID 15854223 · PMC1112591 · BMC genomics · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Nearly 20,000 ESTs from 7 cDNA libraries define nearly 7,000 hookworm genes across A. caninum and A. ceylanicum

  caninum ceylanicum est bioinformatic functional

• Paircomp, FamilyRelationsII and Cartwheel: tools for interspecific sequence comparison.

  PMID 15790396 · PMC1087472 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Paircomp, FamilyRelationsII, and Cartwheel together form an integrated system for comparing, viewing, and managing analyses of BAC-sized (~100 kb) genomic sequence pairs.

  otx sea elegans endo16 windowed reporter comparative

• AceView: a comprehensive cDNA-supported gene and transcripts annotation.

  PMID 16925834 · PMC1810549 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  At the mRNA level, AceView transcripts are the closest match to Gencode transcripts among all evaluated methods, including alternative splice variants

  genome encode caenorhabditis comparative n-to-n cds

• Comprehensive splice-site analysis using comparative genomics.

  PMID 16914448 · PMC1557818 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Over half a million splice sites were collected from five species (H. sapiens, M. musculus, D. melanogaster, C. elegans, A. thaliana) and classified into four main subtypes: U2-type GT-AG and GC-AG, and U12-type GT-AG and AT-AC.

  refseq u2-type genes comparative information phylogenetic

• The post-genomic era for a select few.

  PMID 14759254 · PMC395745 · Genome biology · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The Exofish comparative-genomics tool identifies protein-coding DNA segments by comparing two genome sequences and was used to compare pufferfish (Takifugu, Tetraodon) genomes with mammalian genomes, improving annotation of the human and mouse genomes.

  takifugu physcomitrella coli vibrio comparative genetic dna-microarray

• Genome comparison without alignment using shortest unique substrings.

  PMID 15910684 · PMC1166540 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A number of sequence comparison tasks, including detection of unique genomic regions, can be accomplished efficiently without an alignment step using shortest unique substrings.

  caenorhabditis genome mycoplasma shuffled genome-wide upstream-region local

• 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

• 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

• Identification and characterization of insect-specific proteins by genome data analysis.

  PMID 17407609 · PMC1852559 · BMC genomics · 2007 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Comparative genome analysis across five holometabolous insects and three non-insect eukaryotes (opisthokonts) identifies 154 insect-specific orthologous groups (refined to 51 proteins) and 466 eukaryote/opisthokont-core orthologous groups

  drosophila insect-core locusta insect-specific comparative est functional

• Programmed genetic instability: a tumor-permissive mechanism for maintaining the evolvability of higher species through methylation-dependent mutation of DNA repair genes in the male germ line.

  PMID 18535014 · PMC2464741 · Molecular biology and evolution · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Repair genes are numerically less common than apoptosis genes in the genomes of multicellular organisms

  yeast familial human-mouse comparative gene mutation

• From microarrays to genome duplications.

  PMID 12914655 · PMC193639 · Genome biology · 2003 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Gene3D shows that most genes across sequenced genomes can be assigned to known structural domain families, many of which are shared across kingdoms of life

  tumor cancer plated saccharomyces comparative nonsense-mediated cell-based

• Differences in the evolutionary history of disease genes affected by dominant or recessive mutations.

  PMID 16817963 · PMC1534034 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Dominant disease genes are more conserved at the protein level (mouse orthologues) than recessive disease genes.

  disease human-chimpanzee human-mouse-dog elegans sequence paralogue coding

• Non-EST-based prediction of novel alternatively spliced cassette exons with cell signaling function in Caenorhabditis elegans and human.

  PMID 17452356 · PMC1904267 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  PASE (Prediction of Alternative Signaling Exons) is a computational algorithm combining Markov splice-site models, a Bayesian classifier, species conservation, and Scansite motif scoring to identify novel alternative cassette exons involved in cell signaling.

  elegans pooled pcr known semi-nested cloning initio

• The ASAP II database: analysis and comparative genomics of alternative splicing in 15 animal species.

  PMID 17108355 · PMC1669709 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  ASAP II expands human alternative splicing data ~3-fold over the previous ASAP database, to ~89,078 distinct alternative splicing relationships in 11,717 genes

  genome animal aligned est genome-wide comparative est

• Gene loss rate: a probabilistic measure for the conservation of eukaryotic genes.

  PMID 17158152 · PMC1802574 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  GLR is a novel maximum-likelihood measure of gene loss rate that probabilistically weighs all possible ancestral phyletic patterns rather than relying on a single parsimonious reconstruction.

  synthetic eukaryotic simulated 16-species analytical comparative simulation