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).

• Cell atlases and the developmental foundations of the phenotype.

  PMID 41662466 · PMC12904592 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  There is a proportional relationship between average developmental similarity (⟨simD⟩) and average phenotypic similarity (⟨simP⟩) across genes, supporting the D–P rule on average

  caenorhabditis gene elegans single-cell phenotype non-negative

• Comparing time series transcriptome data between plants using a network module finding algorithm.

  PMID 31164912 · PMC6544932 · Plant methods · 2019 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Converting gene expression patterns into co-expression networks and applying a cross-species network module finding algorithm (OrthoClust with simulated annealing) solves the problem of matching developmental stages between two species without requiring one-to-one stage mapping.

  soybean arabidopsis cross-species module reciprocal bulk co-expression

• Pre-implantation embryo metabolism identified by PEMA reveals endogenous lactate insufficiency contributes to pre-implantation development arrest.

  PMID 42272466 · PMC13247451 · Fundamental research · 2026 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  PEMA, a computational tool that weights metabolic reactions using Ribo-seq data combined with RNA-seq-derived flux balance analysis, can characterize metabolic states of human and mouse pre-implantation embryos more precisely than existing methods like Compass.

  embryos pre-implantation ch3pn single-embryo immunofluorescence single-cell

• De novo assembly of a transcriptome for Calanus finmarchicus (Crustacea, Copepoda)--the dominant zooplankter of the North Atlantic Ocean.

  PMID 24586345 · PMC3929608 · PloS one · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A de novo transcriptome for Calanus finmarchicus was assembled from six developmental-stage libraries, yielding 206,041 contigs and a reference set of 96,090 unique comps, representing a new molecular resource for this species.

  calanus pooled raw combined bulk extraction read

• Have microarrays failed to deliver for developmental biology?

  PMID 12225576 · PMC139405 · Genome biology · 2002 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Despite predictions that microarrays would transform biology, very few published developmental biology microarray studies have generated novel insights.

  drosophila caenorhabditis developing xenopus cdna genome-wide microarray

• Lineage-specific, fast-evolving GATA-like gene regulates zygotic gene activation to promote endoderm specification and pattern formation in the Theridiidae spider.

  PMID 36203191 · PMC9535882 · BMC biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Comparative RNA-seq of cells isolated from central, intermediate, and peripheral regions of stage-3 embryos identifies genes with locally restricted expression genome-wide

  tepidariorum drosophila rna-seq whole-mount parental

• High-resolution mapping of transcriptional dynamics across tissue development reveals a stable mRNA-tRNA interface.

  PMID 25122613 · PMC4216921 · Genome research · 2014 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  mRNA codon and amino acid pools are highly stable across mouse development and across tissues, simply reflecting the genomic background distribution of any possible transcriptome.

  c57bl strand-specific pol computational

• Distal enhancers regulate mammalian early embryonic lineage differentiation through long-range interactions.

  PMID 41562256 · PMC12820533 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Lineage-specific H3K27ac is predominantly enriched at distal enhancers rather than promoters, indicating first-lineage differentiation relies on distal enhancer activity

  pre-implantation low-cell-number 8-cell zygotes cut&tag atac-seq sequencing

• MultiSP deciphers tissue structure and multicellular communication from spatial multi-omics data.

  PMID 41650976 · PMC13174227 · Cell genomics · 2026 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  MultiSP outperforms existing spatial and single-cell multi-omics integration methods in detecting biologically accurate spatial domains across multiple spatial multi-omics technologies and tissue types

  lymph embryo brain postnatal spatial misar-seq chromvar

• A conversation with John Sulston.

  PMID 14580111 · PMC2588810 · The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2002 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  C. elegans, with about 1,000 cells, is an ideal model for studying how cells divide, communicate, differentiate, and undergo programmed death, bridging single-celled organisms and complex animals

  elegans genomic survey lineage ablation physical

• Three-dimensional genome reorganization foreshadows zygotic genome activation in Drosophila.

  PMID 41735587 · PMC12987734 · Nature genetics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Pico-C, a low-input Micro-C method, enables high-resolution, temporally resolved 3D genome mapping in early Drosophila embryos using as few as ~60,000 nuclei

  hand-staged early drosophila pico-c chip-seq atac-seq

• miR-203 facilitates timely cell fate transitions via epigenetic modulation during early embryogenesis.

  PMID 41811946 · PMC12978216 · Science advances · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  miR-203 is required for a timely totipotency-to-pluripotency transition during early mouse embryogenesis

  preimplantation 8-cell mice mir-203 qrt-pcr genotyping time-lapse

• Shaken not stirred: a global research cocktail served in Hinxton.

  PMID 18036269 · PMC2258181 · Genome biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Network-guided reverse genetics using probabilistic functional gene networks (e.g. YeastNet, WormNet) reduces the search space for identifying genes in a given biological process

  budding caenorhabditis drosophila escherichia two-color double chip-chip

• 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

• Sequencing mRNA from cryo-sliced Drosophila embryos to determine genome-wide spatial patterns of gene expression.

  PMID 23951250 · PMC3741199 · PloS one · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cryosectioning single blastoderm-stage D. melanogaster embryos along the A–P axis and sequencing mRNA from each slice yields reliable genome-wide spatial expression patterns.

  single methanol-fixed reads slice mrna-seq light-microscopy read

• Feed-forward loops by NR5A2 ensure robust gene activation during pre-implantation development.

  PMID 41355514 · PMC12848575 · Development (Cambridge, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  NR5A2 chromatin binding is dynamic, changing genome-wide from the 2-cell to the morula stage, with peak numbers and target regions (e.g. SINE B1/Alu) shifting over developmental time

  2-cell embryonic 8-cell zygotes cut&tag chip-seq h3k27ac

• Conservation and losses of non-coding RNAs in avian genomes.

  PMID 25822729 · PMC4378963 · PloS one · 2015 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Homology-based covariance model (Rfam CM) annotation, combined with tRNAscan-SE and miRBase-derived models, identifies ncRNA loci across 48 avian genomes

  avian bird chicken covariance trna microrna

• Mitochondrial localization and function of a subset of 22q11 deletion syndrome candidate genes.

  PMID 18775783 · PMC2729512 · Molecular and cellular neurosciences · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Six 22q11 genes (Mrpl40, Prodh, Slc25a1, Txnrd2, T10, Zdhhc8) encode proteins that localize to mitochondria, including neuronal/synaptic mitochondria.

  orthologues nih-3t3 3t3 mefs bioinformatic egfp co-transfection

• MAdLandExpression: integrating sexual reproduction into the Physcomitrium patens expression atlas.

  PMID 41604502 · PMC12851517 · The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MAdLandExpression is introduced as a web-based gene expression atlas for P. patens, successor to PEATmoss, with new visualization/analysis tools (Expression Comparator, gene set normalization, CV calculator)

  reute gransden villersexel rna-seq

• Manual annotation and analysis of the defensin gene cluster in the C57BL/6J mouse reference genome.

  PMID 20003482 · PMC2807441 · BMC genomics · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Manual annotation of the mouse Chromosome 8 defensin region identifies 98 gene loci: 54 in the alpha-defensin cluster and 44 in the beta-defensin cluster

  c57bl orthologous alpha-defensin defensin manual comparative sequence