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).

• 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

• 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

• 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

• annotate_my_genomes: an easy-to-use pipeline to improve genome annotation and uncover neglected genes by hybrid RNA sequencing.

  PMID 36472574 · PMC9724561 · GigaScience · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  annotate_my_genomes is an easy-to-use genome-guided pipeline that uses hybrid (PacBio+Illumina) assembled transcripts to distinguish coding genes from long non-coding RNAs and reconcile them with prior annotations.

  chick real simulated pacbio illumina hybrid

• A consensus approach to vertebrate de novo transcriptome assembly from RNA-seq data: assembly of the duck (Anas platyrhynchos) transcriptome.

  PMID 25009556 · PMC4070175 · Frontiers in genetics · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Multiple k-mer (MK) assemblies are more complete than single k-mer (SK) assemblies, showing higher reads-mapped-back-to-transcripts (RMBT) and higher CEGMA complete-gene percentages for all three tools.

  anas duck million random illumina read novo

• A single cell characterisation of human embryogenesis identifies pluripotency transitions and putative anterior hypoblast centre.

  PMID 34140473 · PMC8211662 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  The human post-implantation epiblast transitions from a naïve to a primed pluripotent state, with naïve markers (KLF4, KLF17, PRDM14, etc.) downregulated and primed markers (FGF2, DNMT3B, SOX11, etc.) upregulated between pre- and post-implantation stages

  embryo embryos single-cell logistic immunofluorescence

• 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

• Functional genomics analysis of developing zebrafish and human endoderm reveals highly conserved cis-regulatory modules acting during vertebrate organogenesis.

  PMID 41781333 · PMC7619044 · Genome research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  There are few endoderm-specific CRMs; many CRMs governing pancreas development also likely act within the nervous system

  zebrafish embryonic atac-seq bulk facs

• 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

• SETDB1 enables development beyond cleavage stages by extinguishing the MERVL-driven two-cell totipotency transcriptional program in the mouse embryo.

  PMID 41697236 · PMC12908936 · eLife · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Maternal SETDB1 is required for mouse preimplantation development beyond the eight-cell stage

  2-cell single-embryo degs embryo single-embryo principal

• 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

• A Meta-Analysis of Wolbachia Transcriptomics Reveals a Stage-Specific Wolbachia Transcriptional Response Shared Across Different Hosts.

  PMID 32718933 · PMC7467002 · G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2020 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  There is a general lack of global gene regulation across re-analyzed Wolbachia transcriptomes, with the exception of a weak transcriptional response upregulating ribosomal proteins in early larval stages.

  onchocerca dirofilaria wolbachia drosophila rna-seq functional

• Rtf1-dependent transcriptional pausing regulates cardiogenesis.

  PMID 41537425 · PMC12807453 · eLife · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Rtf1 activity is essential for differentiation of the myocardial lineage from mesoderm

  zebrafish embryo embryonic mescs crispr situ shrna

• 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

• 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

• Toward a Consensus in the Repertoire of Hemocytes Identified in Drosophila.

  PMID 33748138 · PMC7969988 · Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Comparative analysis of three scRNAseq studies identifies eight common, robust hemocyte subgroups associated with distinct functions (proliferation, immune response, phagocytosis, secretion)

  wandering feeding stage type single scenic immunolabeling

• A global change in RNA polymerase II pausing during the Drosophila midblastula transition.

  PMID 23951546 · PMC3743134 · eLife · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Massive de novo recruitment of Pol II (and TBP) with widespread pausing occurs during the Drosophila midblastula transition, at 4007 promoters (~one third of all genes).

  hand-sorted drosophila chip-seq immunostaining dapi

• 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

• MiR-21-5p Protects Embryonic Growth and Heart Function During Developmental Hypoxia by Dampening HIF Responses and Altering Gene Expression.

  PMID 42138560 · PMC13178401 · Comprehensive Physiology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Hypoxia induces widespread transcriptomic remodeling in neonatal rat cardiomyocytes (385 DEGs vs normoxia)

  neonatal chicken fetal tunel long-read exon-level

• 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