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).

• Population genomics: diversity and virulence in the Neisseria.

  PMID 18822386 · PMC2612085 · Current opinion in microbiology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Horizontal genetic exchange (recombination) plays a central role in shaping bacterial speciation and population structure in Neisseria

  neisseria meningitidis meningococcal multi-locus microarray genome

• Net positive charge of HIV-1 CRF01_AE V3 sequence regulates viral sensitivity to humoral immunity.

  PMID 18787705 · PMC2527523 · PloS one · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Reduction in V3's net positive charge makes V3 less variable due to limited positive selection

  hiv-1 recombinant plasma gp120 sequence single-round v3-peptide-based

• Natural variation of HIV-1 group M integrase: implications for a new class of antiretroviral inhibitors.

  PMID 18687142 · PMC2546438 · Retrovirology · 2008 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Integrase displays significantly less inter- and intra-subtype amino acid diversity and lower Shannon's entropy than protease or RT.

  genbank hiv-1 protease integrase blastp phylogenetic amino

• Genetic diversity of clinical isolates of Bacillus cereus using multilocus sequence typing.

  PMID 18990211 · PMC2585095 · BMC microbiology · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The 55 clinical B. cereus isolates were phylogenetically diverse, comprising 38 sequence types (STs) distributed across two of three previously described clades.

  clinical concatenated cereus isolates multilocus phylogenetic pcr

• Dental Plaque Microbial Resistomes of Periodontal Health and Disease and Their Changes after Scaling and Root Planing Therapy.

  PMID 34287005 · PMC8386447 · mSphere · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Periodontitis significantly alters dental plaque microbial community diversity and structure compared to healthy and treated states

  dental metagenomic taxonomic arg

• Assignment of Streptococcus agalactiae isolates to clonal complexes using a small set of single nucleotide polymorphisms.

  PMID 18710585 · PMC2533671 · BMC microbiology · 2008 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  A four-SNP set (glnA36, glnA429, glcK180, adhP111) identified via the Not-N algorithm plus empirical testing divides GBS into 10 groups concordant with eBURST-defined population structure.

  gbs clinical bioinformatic eburst kinetic

• Sequence determinants of human microsatellite variability.

  PMID 20015383 · PMC2806349 · BMC genomics · 2009 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  Mean and maximum number of repeats across individuals are positively correlated with heterozygosity

  hgdp-ceph genome calibrated microsatellite blastn sequence

• 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

• Different Intestinal Microbiota with Growth Stages of Three-Breed Hybrid Pig.

  PMID 35978648 · PMC9377885 · BioMed research international · 2022 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  The composition and relative abundance of intestinal microbiota in three-breed hybrid pigs differ significantly across growth stages (60, 120, 180 days)

  fecal same 16s otu alpha

• Metatranscriptomics of the human oral microbiome during health and disease.

  PMID 24692635 · PMC3977359 · mBio · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Disease-associated periodontal communities display conserved community-level metabolic gene expression profiles between patients, whereas the metabolic gene expression of individual species is highly variable between patients.

  patient-matched subset health rna-seq rrna comparison metatranscriptomics

• Distinctive pattern of sequence polymorphism in the NS3 protein of hepatitis C virus type 1b reflects conflicting evolutionary pressures.

  PMID 18632963 · PMC2577380 · The Journal of general virology · 2008 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  NS3 shows less evidence of purifying selection acting on its CTL epitopes than the other 9 HCV proteins, while outside the CTL epitopes NS3 is more conserved than the other proteins.

  complete hcv-1b sequence nonsynonymous comparative neighbor-joining maximum

• Metagenomic study of the oral microbiota by Illumina high-throughput sequencing.

  PMID 19796657 · PMC3568755 · Journal of microbiological methods · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The 16S rRNA V5 hypervariable region, amplified as a short ~82-base segment, provides reliable taxonomic identification of oral bacteria against public databases like HOMD.

  pooled 16s sequenced topo 16s primer taxonomic

• Machine learning reveals microbial interactions driving plastic degradation across plastisphere environments.

  PMID 41657981 · PMC12876002 · Frontiers in microbiology · 2025 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  Wastewater plastispheres harbor the most diverse and compositionally even microbial communities among the three habitats.

  ocean wastewater surface plastisphere 16s alpha beta

• Species-Wide Phylogenomics of the Staphylococcus aureus Agr Operon Revealed Convergent Evolution of Frameshift Mutations.

  PMID 35044202 · PMC8768832 · Microbiology spectrum · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  AgrVATE, a novel kmer-based BLASTn and in silico PCR/Snippy pipeline, enables fast, standardized agr group typing and frameshift/null mutation detection from genome assemblies

  aureus complete extracted agr kmer-based sheep mash

• Estimating biodiversity across the tree of life on Mount Everest's southern flank with environmental DNA.

  PMID 36148432 · PMC9486557 · iScience · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  eDNA from ten high-alpine ponds and streams (4,500-5,500 m) on Mt. Everest's southern flank revealed 187 potential orders from 36 phyla across the Tree of Life.

  edna khumbu genome metabarcoding satellite

• What defines a photosynthetic microbial mat in western Antarctica?

  PMID 40043057 · PMC11882083 · PloS one · 2025 · 6 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  Taxonomic composition of Antarctic microbial mat communities is characterized by similar bacterial groups across regions

  microbial quality-filtered overflowing shotgun taxonomic alpha

• A focused antibody library for selecting scFvs expressed at high levels in the cytoplasm.

  PMID 18034894 · PMC2241821 · BMC biotechnology · 2007 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  A human scFv library was built on the single scFv13R4 framework with CDR3 loops diversified to mimic natural human CDR3 amino-acid distributions.

  coli hela filamentous scfv gfp sds-page fluorescence

• Stability analysis of mixtures of mutagenetic trees.

  PMID 18366778 · PMC2335279 · BMC bioinformatics · 2008 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Mutagenetic trees mixture models capture multiple alternative pathways of ordered accumulation of genetic events (e.g., HIV resistance mutations, cancer chromosomal aberrations).

  simulated hiv-1 hiv timed simulation genotypic mutagenetic

• Metagenomic analysis of respiratory tract DNA viral communities in cystic fibrosis and non-cystic fibrosis individuals.

  PMID 19816605 · PMC2756586 · PloS one · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CF phage communities are highly similar to each other, whereas Non-CF individuals have more distinct, variable phage communities reflecting transient environmental sampling

  sputum phage metagenomes inferred metagenomic functional diversity

• Complex genetic diseases: controversy over the Croesus code.

  PMID 11532206 · PMC138948 · Genome biology · 2001 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  The common disease/common variant hypothesis is predicted by population genetic theory (founder population dynamics, mutation-drift-selection balance) and supported by empirical examples such as APOE*E4.

  chromosome northern disease large-scale genome-wide database