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).

• An oncogenomics-based in vivo RNAi screen identifies tumor suppressors in liver cancer.

  PMID 19012953 · PMC2990916 · Cell · 2008 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  shRNA pools targeting genes recurrently deleted in human HCC accelerate hepatocarcinogenesis in vivo, whereas randomly selected shRNA pools do not.

  hepatocellular p53 genomic hepatoma array-based pooled shrna

• Genome-wide analysis of human disease alleles reveals that their locations are correlated in paralogous proteins.

  PMID 18989397 · PMC2565504 · PLoS computational biology · 2008 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  The locations of sequence variants are correlated between paralogous human proteins more than expected by chance.

  dbsnp best-hit omicia hgmd genome-wide correlation disease

• High-throughput chromatin information enables accurate tissue-specific prediction of transcription factor binding sites.

  PMID 18988630 · PMC2662491 · Nucleic acids research · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Incorporating H3K4me3 chromatin modification estimates greatly improves the accuracy of in silico prediction of in vivo TF binding for a wide range of TFs in human and mouse

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• Distribution and effects of nonsense polymorphisms in human genes.

  PMID 18852891 · PMC2561068 · PloS one · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Nonsense SNPs occur at a lower density than nonsynonymous SNPs, indicating stronger purifying selection against premature stop codons than amino acid changes.

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• Adaptive history of single copy genes highly expressed in the term human placenta.

  PMID 18848617 · PMC2759754 · Genomics · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  222 single copy eutherian genes are highly expressed (>=3x median) in the term human placenta

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• Variations in the transcriptome of Alzheimer's disease reveal molecular networks involved in cardiovascular diseases.

  PMID 18842138 · PMC2760875 · Genome biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  AD-related genes (APOE, A2M, PON2, MAP4) and CVD-associated genes (COMT, CBS, WNK1) congregate in a single co-expression module, linking AD and CVD at the transcriptional level

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• Rapid identification of PAX2/5/8 direct downstream targets in the otic vesicle by combinatorial use of bioinformatics tools.

  PMID 18828907 · PMC2760872 · Genome biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A combinatorial bioinformatics pipeline (evolutionary double filtering comparative genomics, GXD/ZFIN database queries, MEDLINE text mining) can rapidly and specifically identify PAX2/5/8 direct downstream targets in the otic vesicle

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• Comparative phosphoproteomics reveals evolutionary and functional conservation of phosphorylation across eukaryotes.

  PMID 18828897 · PMC2760871 · Genome biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The overlap between phosphoproteomes of six eukaryotes (human, mouse, fly, yeast, plant, zebrafish) is significantly greater than expected by chance.

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• Proteomics of human neurodegenerative diseases.

  PMID 18800015 · PMC2710115 · Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Proteomic techniques applied to autopsy brain and CSF from patients with neurodegenerative diseases provide insight into pathogenesis and enable biomarker discovery

  detergent-extractable thioflavin-s-stained tau-2-immunostained snca-immunoreactive 2-dimensional laser lc-ms-ms

• Identification of direct regulatory targets of the transcription factor Sox10 based on function and conservation.

  PMID 18786246 · PMC2556353 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  PLP, Sox10, SOD3, and Ptn are direct regulatory targets of Sox10, confirmed by chromatin immunoprecipitation binding to conserved cis-elements

  rt4d6 gst-sox10 microarray comparative real

• 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

• Genetic variation in an individual human exome.

  PMID 18704161 · PMC2493042 · PLoS genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The ~12,500 nonsilent coding variants in the HuRef exome can be reduced ~8-fold to a set of ~1,600 variants most likely to affect protein function.

  huref genes subset whole-genome allele functional

• Sequencing the regulatory genome.

  PMID 18598374 · PMC2481419 · Genome biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Nuclear-lamina-associated domains (LADs) define chromatin regions with distinct transcriptional characteristics (fewer, lower-expressed genes, low RNA Pol II occupancy, H3K27me3-enriched borders)

  interphase nine beta-globin drosophila nuclear digital chip

• Proteomic analysis of ovarian cancer cells reveals dynamic processes of protein secretion and shedding of extra-cellular domains.

  PMID 18560578 · PMC2409963 · PloS one · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Ovarian cancer cells exhibit extensive shedding of extra-cellular domains from cell surface proteins into the extracellular milieu.

  ovcar3 analysis lc-ms cell-surface silac

• Identifying alternative hyper-splicing signatures in MG-thymoma by exon arrays.

  PMID 18545673 · PMC2409220 · PloS one · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  An integrative ad-hoc functional GO analysis combining threshold-based (Fisher exact/hypergeometric) and threshold-free (Kolmogorov-Smirnov) statistics, plus term-to-parent comparisons, detects disease-relevant splicing events from exon array data.

  mg-thymoma colon exon fluorescent reverse

• A statistical framework for consolidating "sibling" probe sets for Affymetrix GeneChip data.

  PMID 18435860 · PMC2397416 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  A two-way ANOVA model with a treatment x probe-set interaction term can automatically determine whether sibling probe sets for a gene behave similarly (non-significant interaction, consolidate) or differently (significant interaction, treat as independent)

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• Inter-individual variation of DNA methylation and its implications for large-scale epigenome mapping.

  PMID 18413340 · PMC2425484 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CpG-rich regions (CpG islands) show low and similar methylation levels across individuals, but the sequential order of the few methylated CpGs among the many unmethylated ones varies randomly between individuals.

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• Prediction-based approaches to characterize bidirectional promoters in the mammalian genome.

  PMID 18366609 · PMC2386062 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The mapping algorithm identified 5,647 candidate bidirectional promoter regions in the mouse genome, similar in number to those previously found in human.

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• The biological function of some human transcription factor binding motifs varies with position relative to the transcription start site.

  PMID 18367472 · PMC2377430 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  1226 eight-letter DNA words show statistically significant positional preferences relative to the TSS across 7914 human promoter regions

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• Merger of ayurveda and tissue culture-based functional genomics: inspirations from systems biology.

  PMID 18348714 · PMC2311278 · Journal of translational medicine · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Crude LASH extract and its purified components (withanone, withaferin A) act through distinct but partially overlapping molecular gene-regulatory networks

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