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).

• Technology to accelerate pangenomic scanning for unknown point mutations in exonic sequences: cycling temperature capillary electrophoresis (CTCE).

  PMID 17697348 · PMC2042502 · BMC genetics · 2007 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  CTCE eliminates the need for laboratory optimization of separation conditions for each exonic target sequence.

  pcr-amplified target exonic cycling ctce

• Evaluation of NTHL1, NEIL1, NEIL2, MPG, TDG, UNG and SMUG1 genes in familial colorectal cancer predisposition.

  PMID 17029639 · PMC1624846 · BMC cancer · 2006 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  Coding sequences and intron-exon boundaries of NTHL1, NEIL1, NEIL2, MPG, TDG, UNG and SMUG1 were screened in 94 familial CRC cases with known genes excluded

  genomic predicted archival mutation targeted functional

• ECgene: genome annotation for alternative splicing.

  PMID 15608289 · PMC540072 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  ECgene combines genome-based EST clustering with a graph-theoretic transcript assembly procedure to predict gene models including alternative splicing events.

  brca2 rgs17 organs cdna genomic genome transcript

• Leveraging human genomic information to identify nonhuman primate sequences for expression array development.

  PMID 16288651 · PMC1314899 · BMC genomics · 2005 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Human genomic DNA sequence can be leveraged to obtain 3' end sequence of NHP orthologs, which can then be used to generate NHP oligonucleotide microarrays

  refseq macaca genomic rhesus exon pcr molecular

• A genome-wide survey demonstrates widespread non-linear mRNA in expressed sequences from multiple species.

  PMID 16237125 · PMC1258171 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A genome-wide computational survey identifies 245 genes in mammals (264 across six species) that produce RREO events in expressed sequences

  expressed representative random genes computational orf statistical

• 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

• 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

• Molecular evolution of Cide family proteins: novel domain formation in early vertebrates and the subsequent divergence.

  PMID 18500987 · PMC2426694 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Sequences homologous to the CIDE-N domain/NCD show a wide phylogenetic distribution, from hydra and sea anemone to mammals, while true Cide proteins are restricted to vertebrates.

  organisms cide cideb hmmer tblastn sequence

• Designating eukaryotic orthology via processed transcription units.

  PMID 18445630 · PMC2425467 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Existing ortholog databases discard/ignore alternative splicing via all-against-all protein comparisons, causing ambiguous ortholog calls and misclassification of AS isoforms as in-paralogs

  ortholog blat exon-intron blast-based

• Preponderance of the oncogenic V599E and V599K mutations in B-raf kinase domain is enhanced in melanoma cutaneous/subcutaneous metastases.

  PMID 15935100 · PMC1164406 · BMC cancer · 2005 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  B-raf exon 15 somatic mutations occur in 24/60 (40%) of cutaneous/subcutaneous melanoma metastases, similar to the frequency in primary melanomas

  paraffin-embedded cloned same predicted pcr cloning blastx

• 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

• In silico and in vivo splicing analysis of MLH1 and MSH2 missense mutations shows exon- and tissue-specific effects.

  PMID 16995940 · PMC1590028 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  In silico ESE-prediction algorithms (ESEfinder, RescueESE, PESX) do not reliably predict actual in vivo splicing behavior of missense mutations

  hmlh1 same cos-7 hela ese splice minigene

• Defective splicing, disease and therapy: searching for master checkpoints in exon definition.

  PMID 16855287 · PMC1524908 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Splicing-affecting genomic variations can account for up to 50% of mutations leading to gene dysfunction in some genes

  random trans-acting tpo fibronectin minigene selex cdna

• A compatible exon-exon junction database for the identification of exon skipping events using tandem mass spectrum data.

  PMID 19087293 · PMC2636810 · BMC bioinformatics · 2008 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  A theoretical exon-exon junction protein database accounting for all in-phase (frame-preserving) exon combinations can be built from the Ensembl Core Database using Perl/Bioperl/MySQL/Ensembl API.

  ensembl liver candidate same database tandem decoy

• Genetic variation at hair length candidate genes in elephants and the extinct woolly mammoth.

  PMID 19747392 · PMC2754481 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  The coding sequence of FGF5 is not the critical determinant of hair length differences among elephantids, including the woolly mammoth.

  asian fgf5 woolly savanna pcr structural blast

• Systematic analysis of human kinase genes: a large number of genes and alternative splicing events result in functional and structural diversity.

  PMID 16351747 · PMC1866387 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Systematic in silico search identified 5 novel human kinase genes (on chromosomes 1, 11, 13, 15, 16) and 1 pseudogene (chromosome X) absent from KinBase

  genome genomic kinase psi-blast comparative genscan

• 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

• SVC: structured visualization of evolutionary sequence conservation.

  PMID 15991338 · PMC1160265 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  SVC aligns protein-coding sequences of orthologous gene pairs and maps them back onto their encoding exons/introns to generate a scaffold of conserved gene structure.

  orthologous exonic tblastx blastn sliding-window

• TreeFam: a curated database of phylogenetic trees of animal gene families.

  PMID 16381935 · PMC1347480 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Tree-based inference of orthologs and paralogs is more robust than BLAST-based methods because evolutionary rates (and thus pairwise BLAST scores) vary across gene family members

  sequences animal treefam-b lamin phylogenetic homology sequence