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).

• 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

• Vertebrate gene finding from multiple-species alignments using a two-level strategy.

  PMID 16925840 · PMC1810555 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  DOGFISH cleanly separates a multi-species alignment classifier (RVM cascade) from an HMM-based structure predictor, avoiding tight coupling of alignment complexity with HMM formalism

  genomic encode entire chromosome multi-species hmm-based classifier

• Spontaneous symmetry breaking in genome evolution.

  PMID 18367477 · PMC2377439 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 6 claims · 3 setups

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  Exon size distributions in sequenced genomes follow a lognormal pattern typical of a random Kolmogoroff fractioning process

  animal homo model genome-wide alternatively computational

• Transcription of the human and rodent SPAM1 / PH-20 genes initiates within an ancient endogenous retrovirus.

  PMID 15804358 · PMC1079825 · BMC genomics · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Human, mouse, and rat SPAM1/Spam1 transcripts initiate within an ERV1 pol (internal coding) region rather than within an LTR

  testis panel genome 5'-race non-quantitative

• Reference based annotation with GeneMapper.

  PMID 16600017 · PMC1557983 · Genome biology · 2006 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  GeneMapper transfers reference gene annotations to target genomes with higher accuracy than GeneWise and Projector

  orthologous human-mouse chicken encode reference-based multi-species reciprocal

• 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

• Detecting transcriptionally active regions using genomic tiling arrays.

  PMID 16859498 · PMC1779562 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  A non-parametric method (TranscriptionDetector) integrates single-channel p-values from multiple replicate arrays into a multi-channel p-value (MCPV) to identify transcribed probed loci without assumptions about intensity distributions.

  anopheles chromosomes simulated genomic high-density sequence-based

• Non-EST based prediction of exon skipping and intron retention events using Pfam information.

  PMID 16204458 · PMC1243800 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  A novel ab initio method predicts exon skipping and intron retention events using only Pfam domain annotation, via a Viterbi-like dynamic programming algorithm applied to the Pfam alignment.

  refseq dbest genome pfam initio est comparative

• 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

• Tandem repeats modify the structure of human genes hosted in segmental duplications.

  PMID 19954527 · PMC2812944 · Genome biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Around 7% of primate-specific genes located within segmental duplications contain variable internal tandem repeats (ITRs).

  genome genomic est paired genome-wide comparative cnv

• High resolution analysis of the human transcriptome: detection of extensive alternative splicing independent of transcriptional activity.

  PMID 19804644 · PMC2768739 · BMC genetics · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The human GWSA uses exon body and exon-exon junction probes to directly measure over 280,000 known and predicted splicing events genome-wide.

  universal same lim erythrocyte genome-wide cross-platform rt-pcr

• 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

• EGASP: the human ENCODE Genome Annotation Assessment Project.

  PMID 16925836 · PMC1810551 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Best-performing computational gene prediction methods correctly predict at least one transcript for close to 70% of annotated genes in the ENCODE regions.

  encode computational manual rt-pcr

• Functional importance of different patterns of correlation between adjacent cassette exons in human and mouse.

  PMID 18439302 · PMC2432081 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Adjacent cassette exon pairs can be categorized by EST-derived correlation coefficient into three groups: mutually exclusive (ME, r<=-0.7), independent (IND, -0.2<=r<=0.2), and linked (LNK, r>=0.7)

  human-mouse adjacent est genome splice

• Discovery of novel human transcript variants by analysis of intronic single-block EST with polyadenylation site.

  PMID 19906316 · PMC2784480 · BMC genomics · 2009 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Intronic single-block ESTs with poly(A/T) tails reveal previously unidentified novel transcript variants missed by existing databases.

  genome poly est cdna est blast cdna

• 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

• 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

• X:Map: annotation and visualization of genome structure for Affymetrix exon array analysis.

  PMID 17932061 · PMC2238884 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  X:Map is a genome annotation database that maps every Affymetrix exon array probeset to Ensembl genome features (genes, ESTs, GenScan predictions) and supports both high-throughput and gene-centric analysis.

  ensembl breast mcf7 25-mer probe-to-transcript microarray

• Adequate use of allele frequencies in Hispanics--a problem elucidated in nephrotic syndrome.

  PMID 19876656 · PMC2899680 · Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2010 · 7 claims · 3 setups

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  Self-identified Hispanic SRNS patients in the USA are genetically heterogeneous, being of either Caucasian or Mesoamerican (Native-American) descent

  genomic same healthy direct genome-wide

• 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