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).

• The truth about mouse, human, worms and yeast.

  PMID 15601543 · PMC3525071 · Human genomics · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Comparing genomes in pairs or larger sets (mouse-human, C. elegans-C. briggsae, multiple Saccharomyces, human-pufferfish, etc.) reveals unsuspected genes and helps eliminate false-positive gene predictions

  mouse-human homo tetraodon region comparative est cross-species

• GeneAlign: a coding exon prediction tool based on phylogenetical comparisons.

  PMID 16845010 · PMC1538901 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  GeneAlign predicts coding exons by using signal detection (GeneSplicer/WMM) combined with CORAL, a heuristic linear-time alignment tool, to align candidate signal-flanked regions against annotated exons of a homologous organism's genes

  homologous human-mouse same gene comparative parameter micro-exon

• Comparative gene finding in chicken indicates that we are closing in on the set of multi-exonic widely expressed human genes.

  PMID 15809229 · PMC1074396 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Comparative gene finding (SGP2) between human and chicken, followed by RT-PCR verification, adds at most ~0.2% new genes to the multi-exonic human gene catalog

  chicken predicted human-chicken cdna comparative blastp pairwise

• Continued colonization of the human genome by mitochondrial DNA.

  PMID 15361937 · PMC515365 · PLoS biology · 2004 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  NUMT insertion into nuclear chromosomes is an ongoing process shaped by double-strand-break repair (as shown in yeast) and continuing in humans.

  homo genomic chimpanzee genome genome-wide pcr sanger

• Computer identification of snoRNA genes using a Mammalian Orthologous Intron Database.

  PMID 16093549 · PMC1184218 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Created the Mammalian Orthologous Intron Database (MOID) containing orthologous introns of human, mouse and rat identified via conserved reading-frame position

  introns ribosomal rrna comparative orthologous pairwise

• Large-scale trends in the evolution of gene structures within 11 animal genomes.

  PMID 16518452 · PMC1386723 · PLoS computational biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Change in intron–exon gene structure is gradual, clock-like, and largely independent of coding-sequence (protein) evolution

  annotated animal unannotated comparative all-against-all neighbor-joining

• Divergence of exonic splicing elements after gene duplication and the impact on gene structures.

  PMID 19883501 · PMC3091315 · Genome biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  ESEs and ESSs diverge especially fast shortly after gene duplication, correlating with time since duplication (Ks)

  paralogous human-mouse duplicated comparative ortholog binomial

• Anopheles gambiae genome reannotation through synthesis of ab initio and comparative gene prediction algorithms.

  PMID 16569258 · PMC1557760 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  An exon-gene-union (EGU) algorithm followed by an open-reading-frame-selection algorithm can synthesize ab initio (GENSCAN, GeneMark, SNAP) and comparative (Ensembl/Genewise) predictions into a single, more complete CDS set

  anopheles gambiae reanocds05 initio full-length rt-pcr

• Improving the specificity of exon prediction using comparative genomics.

  PMID 18831778 · PMC2559877 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A log-odds ratio scoring method based on codon conservation across human-mouse/human-dog alignments and adjacent-codon dependency can classify putative exons as coding vs non-coding.

  human-mouse human-dog genome simulated comparative single-genome simulated

• Splicing bioinformatics to biology.

  PMID 16732900 · PMC1779529 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Mutually exclusive selection of Dscam exon 6 variants is governed by base pairing between a conserved intronic docking site and selector sequences adjacent to each alternative exon.

  dscam alternative heterologous expressing comparative dicodon reporter

• Intronic alternative splicing regulators identified by comparative genomics in nematodes.

  PMID 16839192 · PMC1500816 · PLoS computational biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Conserved intronic elements flanking alternative exons occur more often than expected from total intron sequence, consistent with selective pressure for splicing regulation

  elegans database transgenic comparative est cross-species

• DG-CST (Disease Gene Conserved Sequence Tags), a database of human-mouse conserved elements associated to disease genes.

  PMID 15608249 · PMC539965 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 5 claims · 8 setups

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  Comparative human-mouse genome analysis identifies conserved sequence tags (CSTs, >=70% identity over >=100bp) that frequently correspond to non-coding elements with putative regulatory or structural roles

  identified cst csts comparative coding exon

• JIGSAW, GeneZilla, and GlimmerHMM: puzzling out the features of human genes in the ENCODE regions.

  PMID 16925843 · PMC1810558 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Adding model states for specific biological features (signal peptides, CpG islands, etc.) to non-comparative GHMM gene finders did little or nothing to enhance predictive accuracy, sometimes reducing it.

  encode genes invertebrate initio comparative training

• Using several pair-wise informant sequences for de novo prediction of alternatively spliced transcripts.

  PMID 16925842 · PMC1810557 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  MARS, an extension of the Twinscan algorithm, uses multiple pairwise informant genomes to predict human alternatively spliced transcripts de novo without expressed sequence information.

  genome tissues novo pairwise rt-pcr

• Exonic remnants of whole-genome duplication reveal cis-regulatory function of coding exons.

  PMID 19969543 · PMC2831330 · Nucleic acids research · 2010 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  38 candidate cis-regulatory coding exons (RCEs) with predicted target genes were identified genome-wide

  hg18 zebrafish bystander human-mouse comparative synteny orthologous

• MutScreener: primer design tool for PCR-direct sequencing.

  PMID 16845093 · PMC1538803 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  MutScreener is a web-based application that automates PCR-direct sequencing assay design by annotating gene structure and designing PCR and sequencing primers.

  sim4 cdna gene comparative sequence pcr

• Adapting to a changing world: RAG genomics and evolution.

  PMID 16004728 · PMC3525258 · Human genomics · 2005 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  RAG-1/RAG-2 origin is a foundational hallmark of adaptive immunity, enabling V(D)J recombination of antigen receptor genes.

  rag-1 patients zebrafish vertebrate comparative site-directed clinical

• Genomic organization, annotation, and ligand-receptor inferences of chicken chemokines and chemokine receptor genes based on comparative genomics.

  PMID 15790398 · PMC1082905 · BMC genomics · 2005 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Twenty-three chemokine genes and 14 chemokine receptor genes were identified in the chicken genome, including 12 new chemokines and 7 new receptors beyond prior reports.

  chicken comparative amino phylogenetic

• Speeding disease gene discovery by sequence based candidate prioritization.

  PMID 15766383 · PMC1274252 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Disease genes (OMIM) differ significantly from non-disease genes in sequence-based features including gene/cDNA/protein size, exon number, homolog conservation, secretion signal, 3' UTR length, CpG islands, and distance to nearest gene.

  ensembl training same hgmd comparative machine tenfold

• Recurring genomic breaks in independent lineages support genomic fragility.

  PMID 17090315 · PMC1636669 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2006 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  The propensity of a chromosomal region to break is significantly correlated among independent lineages, even after accounting for covariates like region length and functional class.

  hg17 genome computationally comparative marker segmental