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

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  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.

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• Geometry-aware graph attention networks to explain single-cell chromatin states and gene expression with SEAGALL.

  PMID 42026624 · PMC13238118 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  SEAGALL combines a geometry-regularised autoencoder (GRAE) to embed cells and build a cell-cell graph with a graph attention network (GAT) classifier and GNNExplainer-based XAI to identify features driving cell type/phenotype.

  count same scchip-seq ten count latent classification

• Assessment of dispersion metrics for estimating single-cell transcriptional variability.

  PMID 41770747 · PMC12970974 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  The variance-to-mean ratio (VMR/Fano factor) scales approximately linearly with increasing dispersion and is independent of dataset size.

  simulated manivannan lana-elola yuzwa computational scrna-seq

• Extending differential gene expression testing to handle genome aneuploidy in cancer.

  PMID 41894415 · PMC13061324 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  DeConveil integrates CNV data into DGE analysis using a GLM with negative binomial distribution to correct for CN-driven gene dosage effects

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• AXOLOTL: an accurate method for detecting aberrant gene expression in rare diseases using coexpression constraints.

  PMID 42083807 · PMC13198384 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  AXOLOTL is a novel ensemble outlier detection method that incorporates coexpression constraints to detect aberrant gene expression events in RNA expression matrices.

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• Harvesting more reads from single-cell combinatorial barcoding data with scarecrow.

  PMID 41967853 · PMC13125751 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  scarecrow screens a subsample of reads to generate position-specific barcode profiles, then flexibly identifies barcode sequences in reads while accounting for positional jitter

  pbmc scrna-seq single-cell

• Generative and integrative modeling for transcriptomics with formalin fixed paraffin embedded material.

  PMID 41029822 · PMC12486589 · Journal of translational medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The negative binomial distribution best fits fRNA-seq transcript counts, with little evidence supporting zero-inflated extensions

  compendium ffpe simulated frna-seq statistical bulk integrity

• FracFixR: a compositional statistical framework for absolute proportion estimation between fractions in RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 41264734 · PMC12866640 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  FracFixR reconstructs original fraction proportions by modeling the compositional relationship between whole and fractionated RNA samples using non-negative least squares (NNLS) regression on selected transcripts

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• Benefit of using interaction effects for the analysis of high-dimensional time-response or dose-response data for two-group comparisons.

  PMID 38012163 · PMC10682470 · Scientific reports · 2023 · 5 claims · 1 setups

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  Interaction effects are often the mathematical equivalent of the biological research question in gene expression studies but are frequently not considered in practice.

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• Protocol to perform cell-type-specific transcriptome-wide association study using scPrediXcan framework.

  PMID 41689808 · PMC12925207 · STAR protocols · 2026 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  scPrediXcan enables cell-type-specific transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) by integrating deep learning-based prediction of gene expression from DNA sequence and epigenetic features.

  acinar individual-level geuvadis beta mlp-based personalized elastic-net

• Modeling ChIP sequencing in silico with applications.

  PMID 18725927 · PMC2507756 · PLoS computational biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Observed ChIP-seq tag counts follow an initial power-law distribution followed by a long right tail.

  stat1 ncbi chip-seq motif

• Single-Cell Differential Network Analysis with Sparse Bayesian Factor Models.

  PMID 35186014 · PMC8855158 · Frontiers in genetics · 2021 · 8 claims · 2 setups

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  A hierarchical Bayesian factor model using treatment-dependent latent factor loadings can construct gene co-expression networks from scRNA-seq data and identify differences in network structure between two (or more) biological conditions.

  simulated sars-cov-2 scrna-seq

• Multi-omics analyses identify mannose phosphate isomerase-centered hypoxia-induced angiogenesis signature in colorectal cancer.

  PMID 41204349 · PMC12595641 · Journal of translational medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Twelve HIA-related genes were identified that are transcriptionally activated by HIF1A/HIF2A and functionally implicated in angiogenesis in CRC

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• spliceJAC: transition genes and state-specific gene regulation from single-cell transcriptome data.

  PMID 36321549 · PMC9627675 · Molecular systems biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  spliceJAC uses unspliced and spliced mRNA count matrices to construct cell state-specific gene-gene regulatory interaction (Jacobian) matrices from scRNA-seq data

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• Shape-constrained, changepoint additive models for time series omics data with cpam.

  PMID 41978264 · PMC13076231 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  cpam outperforms existing time series methods in control of false discovery rate versus power to detect temporal changes

  embryogenesis arabidopsis simulated isoform-level gene-level simulation

• Semi-parametric empirical bayes method for multiplet detection in snATAC-seq with probabilistic multi-omic integration.

  PMID 42054434 · PMC13148828 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  SEBULA models the singlet background directly from observed HCLC (high-coverage locus count) statistics using fragment-level snATAC-seq information, avoiding reliance on synthetic/artificial doublets.

  dogma-seq dogma-seq-derived seven snatac-seq q-q density

• scPASU: A computational protocol for quantifying polyadenylation site usage and alternative polyadenylation from 3' scRNA-seq data.

  PMID 42085187 · PMC13157062 · STAR protocols · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  scPASU is a Snakemake-based workflow that quantifies APA from standard 3′ scRNA-seq data without requiring specialized library preparation

  ureter processed scrna-seq read poly

• Lineage-Specific Disruption of Hematopoiesis by Oxaliplatin: Mechanisms of Erythropoietin Resistance and Immune Suppression.

  PMID 41868970 · PMC13005433 · Journal of hematology and oncology research · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Oxaliplatin induces coordinated, lineage-dependent suppression of hematopoiesis, strongest in erythroid and lymphoid lineages while neutrophils are relatively spared

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• saseR: juggling offsets unlocks RNA-seq tools for fast and scalable differential usage, aberrant splicing and expression retrieval.

  PMID 41709279 · PMC13019952 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Replacing the library-size offset with the log of the total gene count in NB-based bulk RNA-seq models (edgeR/DESeq2) lets the mean-model parameters be interpreted as transcript/exon usage, unlocking these tools for differential usage and aberrant splicing without DEXSeq-style subject-specific blocking covariates.

  simulated bulk cohort aberrant differential exon

• Epigenetic profiling of hematopoietic stem cells from male mice identifies KDR and PU.1 as regulators of aging transcriptome and caloric restriction response.

  PMID 41720793 · PMC13035812 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Lifelong CR reduces white blood cell production and shifts hematopoiesis toward myeloid and thrombo-erythroid lineages while suppressing lymphoid output

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