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).

• Mesotrypsin promotes malignant growth of breast cancer cells through shedding of CD109.

  PMID 20035377 · PMC2929293 · Breast cancer research and treatment · 2010 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Serine protease inhibitors (aprotinin, SBTI) cause morphological reversion of malignant T4-2 breast cancer cells in 3D culture, restoring acinar structure and basal polarity

  hmt-3522 organotypic quantitative lentiviral

• Genomics of signaling crosstalk of estrogen receptor alpha in breast cancer cells.

  PMID 18365014 · PMC2268000 · PloS one · 2008 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Estrogen, growth factors and cAMP elicit surprisingly distinct ERα-dependent transcriptional responses in MCF7 cells

  mcf7 promoter cdna quantitative computational

• Convergence of mutation and epigenetic alterations identifies common genes in cancer that predict for poor prognosis.

  PMID 18507500 · PMC2429944 · PLoS medicine · 2008 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  At least 36 of the 189 newly mutated CAN genes are targets of promoter CpG island hypermethylation, often in both colon and breast cancer cell lines

  breast same selected hct116 expression methylation-specific rt-pcr

• GREIN: An Interactive Web Platform for Re-analyzing GEO RNA-seq Data.

  PMID 31110304 · PMC6527554 · Scientific reports · 2019 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  GREIN is a web application providing user-friendly interfaces to manipulate, visualize, and analyze GEO RNA-seq data.

  mcf10a nde&dt hypoxia bulk correlation pca

• Incidence of mutation and deletion in topoisomerase II alpha mRNA of etoposide and mAMSA-resistant cell lines.

  PMID 11676865 · PMC5926608 · Japanese journal of cancer research : Gann · 2001 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Acquired mutations of the topoisomerase IIα gene are an important and frequent mechanism of resistance to topoisomerase II inhibitors, independent of the degree of resistance.

  parental lines t47d-vp1 mcf7-vp8 rnase cdna cytotoxicity

• Evaluation of genome-wide chromatin library of Stat5 binding sites in human breast cancer.

  PMID 15686596 · PMC549029 · Molecular cancer · 2005 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  A chromatin library coupled with experimental validation can productively identify novel in vivo Stat5 chromatin binding sites in cancer, including abnormal regulatory sites in tumor-specific neochromatin.

  t-47d agarose chromatin cloning

• Identification and validation of a metabolic-related gene risk model predicting the prognosis of lung, colon, and breast cancers.

  PMID 39779736 · PMC11711664 · Scientific reports · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  540 DEGs overlap across breast, colorectal, and lung cancers out of 11,384 DEGs analyzed

  breast colorectal lung common microarray kegg protein-protein

• Advances in genomic and pharmacokinetic profiling for clinical stratification of metastatic breast cancer.

  PMID 41369820 · PMC12799884 · Discover oncology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Eight gene modules linked to metastasis were identified via scored network analysis and validated through pathway databases.

  metastatic tcga-brca homo gse40622 gene bulk rt-pcr

• Cancer-specific high-throughput annotation of somatic mutations: computational prediction of driver missense mutations.

  PMID 19654296 · PMC2763410 · Cancer research · 2009 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  CHASM, a Random Forest-based computational method, was developed to identify and prioritize missense mutations likely to be functional drivers of tumor cell proliferation.

  missense same synthetic tp53 random support principal

• SpaGene: A Deep Adversarial Framework for Spatial Gene Imputation.

  PMID 42146899 · PMC13176606 · Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  SpaGene improves average PCC and SSIM and reduces RMSE compared to 6 baseline methods (SpaGE, gimVI, Tangram, VISTA, spRefine, stDiff) across 8 diverse ST-SC dataset pairs under gene-holdout evaluation.

  pairs nanostring st-sc osmfish_zeisel st-sc 5-fold spatially

• Are gene expression microarray analyses reliable? A review of studies of retinoic acid responsive genes.

  PMID 15626329 · PMC5171945 · Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2003 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Published microarray studies aiming to identify RA-responsive genes show substantial, often contradictory, differences in results across research groups.

  nb4 tf1 tracheobronchial moser affymetrix cdna microarray

• 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

• Direct resequencing of the complete ERBB2 coding sequence reveals an absence of activating mutations in ERBB2 amplified breast cancer.

  PMID 18418848 · PMC6668724 · Genes, chromosomes & cancer · 2008 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  Emulsion PCR combined with picotiter plate pyrosequencing (454 sequencing) enables high-resolution, high-throughput detection of low-frequency sequence variants among the many individual copies of an amplified gene.

  erbb2-amplified erbb2-positive plasmid cos-7 emulsion serial immune-complex

• Automatic discovery of 100-miRNA signature for cancer classification using ensemble feature selection.

  PMID 31533612 · PMC6751684 · BMC bioinformatics · 2019 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  An ensemble feature selection method based on classifier consensus identifies a robust 100-miRNA signature from TCGA data.

  tcga geo 100-mirna mirna feature bibliographic

• Optimal scaling of digital transcriptomes.

  PMID 24223126 · PMC3819321 · PloS one · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Fifteen existing and novel transcript-count normalization algorithms can be compared with two novel, mutually independent metrics: the number of "uniform" genes (sufficiently low coefficient of variation after normalization) and low average Spearman correlation between normalized expression profiles of gene pairs.

  tissues bodymap mapped 16-sample bulk read transcript

• Using random walks to identify cancer-associated modules in expression data.

  PMID 24128261 · PMC4015830 · BioData mining · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Walktrap-GM, a random-walk community detection algorithm adapted with stopping criteria (maximum modularity, maximum size, maximum module score), identifies modules significantly enriched with cancer genes in expression-weighted interaction networks.

  hepatocellular breast sporadic geo gene differential interaction

• Network-assisted protein identification and data interpretation in shotgun proteomics.

  PMID 19690572 · PMC2736651 · Molecular systems biology · 2009 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Confidently identified proteins in a sample form tightly connected sub-networks in the protein interaction network, with significantly higher clustering coefficients than random or topology-matched random sub-networks.

  yeast organs mammary organ shotgun clique-enrichment microarray

• Extensive androgen receptor enhancer heterogeneity in primary prostate cancers underlies transcriptional diversity and metastatic potential.

  PMID 36450752 · PMC9712620 · Nature communications · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  AR enhancer/chromatin binding usage is highly heterogeneous between primary prostate tumors, with <5% of all AR binding sites shared by half of tumors analyzed.

  prostate normal ar+ pca chip-seq rna-seq massively

• 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

  tumor-derived tumor lash gene cytotoxicity sirna ribozyme