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).

• Gene duplication: the genomic trade in spare parts.

  PMID 15252449 · PMC449868 · PLoS biology · 2004 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Gene duplication relaxes selective constraint on one copy, allowing exploration of evolutionary space that is otherwise forbidden in single-copy genes, making duplication the major opportunity for new gene function evolution.

  great genome recently yeast genome-wide molecular comparative

• The limits of reductionism in medicine: could systems biology offer an alternative?

  PMID 16681415 · PMC1459480 · PLoS medicine · 2006 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  Reductionist medical science (focus on singular causal factors, homeostasis-as-normal-range, one-risk-factor epidemiology, additive treatment of comorbidities) has inherent limitations for explaining complex disease behavior

  escherichia population genome mathematical epidemiological genome

• Importance sampling for the infinite sites model.

  PMID 18976228 · PMC2832804 · Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology · 2008 · 7 claims · 2 setups

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  A new importance sampling proposal distribution for the ISM, derived from a new result on exact sampling from a single segregating site, generally shows greater efficiency than the GT and SD proposals.

  simulated empirical computational reanalysis

• Target SNP selection in complex disease association studies.

  PMID 15248903 · PMC487897 · BMC bioinformatics · 2004 · 7 claims · 3 setups

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  A computational pipeline can retrieve gene sequence, collect SNP variation data, and annotate SNPs falling in functional motifs (promoter, exon-intron structure, AU-rich elements, TF binding sites, splice sites) with expression in target tissue

  genes pooled primer computational maldi-tof blast

• The evolutionary dynamics of a rapidly mutating virus within and between hosts: the case of hepatitis C virus.

  PMID 19911046 · PMC2768904 · PLoS computational biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  The replication rate of the strain that initiates an infection has a strong effect on the fitness of the infection at the between-host level, even though the virus evolves rapidly within the host.

  computational same simulation stochastic parameter-sweep multivariate

• Genome-wide analysis of the human Alu Yb-lineage.

  PMID 15588477 · PMC3525081 · Human genomics · 2004 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  1,733 Alu Yb-lineage elements are present on human autosomal chromosomes

  genome genomic non-human yb7 computational pcr-based pcr

• Data-driven projections of candidate enhancer-activating SNPs in immune regulation.

  PMID 40011812 · PMC11863423 · BMC genomics · 2025 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  A data-driven computational protocol combining motif scanning, open-chromatin filtering, gene proximity, dbSNP validation, spacing, and cross-species conservation can prioritize SNPs likely to create functional GAS motifs.

  genome pbmc lung il4-stimulated motif chip-seq bulk

• SNP selection for genes of iron metabolism in a study of genetic modifiers of hemochromatosis.

  PMID 18366708 · PMC2289803 · BMC medical genetics · 2008 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Illumina validation/design scores above 0.6 are not strongly correlated with actual SNP genotyping performance (Gentrain score)

  randomly heirs seattlesnps african resequencing genome-wide tag

• Correcting scale distortion in RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 39875825 · PMC11776150 · BMC bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Local averaging reveals expression-level-dependent biases that differ from sample to sample across all RNA-seq datasets studied, and are not corrected by conventional normalization (TPM/FPKM)

  tcga su2c gse47774 gtex bulk computational d'agostino

• 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

• Altered spin state equilibrium in the T309V mutant of cytochrome P450 2D6: a spectroscopic and computational study.

  PMID 17318599 · PMC1915625 · Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry · 2007 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  The T309V mutation shifts the CYP2D6 heme spin equilibrium toward the six-coordinate low-spin (6cLS) state, decreasing the five-coordinate high-spin (5cHS) fraction relative to wild type.

  recombinant cyp2d6 computational resonance uv-vis sds-page

• ADZE: a rarefaction approach for counting alleles private to combinations of populations.

  PMID 18779233 · PMC2732282 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2008 · 6 claims · 2 setups

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  A generalized rarefaction-based statistic can estimate the sample size-corrected number of distinct alleles private to any combination of populations, generalizing Kalinowski's (2004) private allelic richness to groups of populations.

  populations simulated microsatellite computational

• Evolutionarily conserved human targets of adenosine to inosine RNA editing.

  PMID 15731336 · PMC549564 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Identified four novel human ADAR editing substrates causing amino acid changes: FLNA, BLCAP, CYFIP2 and IGFBP7

  panel brain chicken flna comparative rt-pcr homology

• Developmental hematopoietic stem cell variation explains clonal hematopoiesis later in life.

  PMID 39592593 · PMC11599844 · Nature communications · 2024 · 8 claims · 2 setups

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  Weak selection conferred by HSC variation created before birth can reliably yield clonal hematopoiesis later in life, demonstrated via shared prenatal circulation of monozygotic (MZ) twins.

  blood simulated fluctuating single-cell

• DNA binding analysis of rare variants in homeodomains reveals homeodomain specificity-determining residues.

  PMID 38600112 · PMC11006913 · Nature communications · 2024 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Many of the 92 assayed HD missense variants alter DNA binding affinity and/or specificity compared to their corresponding reference alleles

  homeodomain hoxd13 cerevisiae amino universal chip-seq electrophoretic

• 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

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  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

• Ancient variation of the AvrPm17 gene in powdery mildew limits the effectiveness of the introgressed rye Pm17 resistance gene in wheat.

  PMID 35857869 · PMC9335242 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  AvrPm17 is encoded by a paralogous, tandemly duplicated effector gene pair located in a pericentromeric, mildew sublineage-specific effector cluster (family E003) showing signs of recurring gene conversion.

  b.g parental nicotiana benthamiana qtl comparative rna-sequencing

• The jewels of our genome: the search for the genomic changes underlying the evolutionarily unique capacities of the human brain.

  PMID 16733552 · PMC1464830 · PLoS genetics · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Human and chimp genomes differ by ~35 million single nucleotide substitutions, corresponding to ~1.06% divergence after removing polymorphic sites

  chimpanzee chimp population non-human genome snp high-density

• Mutation analysis in a German family identified a new cataract-causing allele in the CRYBB2 gene.

  PMID 17653036 · PMC2774456 · Molecular vision · 2007 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  A novel heterozygous mutation (383A>T; D128V) in exon 5 of CRYBB2 cosegregates with congenital cataract in all three affected family members and is absent in unaffected relatives.

  genomic pcr-amplified computational pcr restriction pcr-rflp

• Sex-biased evolutionary forces shape genomic patterns of human diversity.

  PMID 18818765 · PMC2538571 · PLoS genetics · 2008 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  X-linked diversity is higher than the neutral expectation (0.75) relative to autosomal diversity in all six sampled human populations

  humans population simulated computational resequencing coalescent-based coalescent