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).

• Cell-Type-Specific Gene Modules Related to the Regional Homogeneity of Spontaneous Brain Activity and Their Associations With Common Brain Disorders.

  PMID 33958982 · PMC8093778 · Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Fourteen gene modules were consistently (Bonferroni-corrected) associated with ReHo across a discovery sample and two independent replication samples (including one non-Chinese HCP cohort).

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• Digital sorting of complex tissues for cell type-specific gene expression profiles.

  PMID 23497278 · PMC3626856 · BMC bioinformatics · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The Digital Sorting Algorithm (DSA) deconvolves mixed tissue expression into cell type-specific profiles using only marker genes, without requiring prior knowledge of cell type frequencies or in vitro pure-cell profiles.

  liver im-9 immune deconvolved microarray simulation roc

• Deconvolving cell-type-specific gene expression profiles from bulk RNA-seq samples.

  PMID 41886524 · PMC13038110 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  BLUE, a U-Net-based deep learning model with dual branches (U-Net for GEPs, MLP for proportions), accurately predicts cell-type proportions and cell-type-specific gene expression profiles from bulk RNA-seq.

  pbmc pancreatic aml scrna-seq-derived real scrna-seq

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  PMID 42090501 · PMC13148318 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Mesenchymal populations show markedly greater transcriptomic/regulatory divergence between mouse and chicken than ectodermal populations, pointing to a central role of mesenchyme in shaping facial morphology

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• Single-cell transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility profiling elucidate the kidney-protective mechanism of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists.

  PMID 37906287 · PMC10760974 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Mineralocorticoid effects are established through open chromatin and target gene expression primarily in principal and connecting tubule cells, and to a lesser extent in distal convoluted tubule cells

  kidney live blood snrna-seq snatac-seq bulk

• Comprehensive analysis for the role of macrophage-driven genes in abdominal aortic aneurysm.

  PMID 41815567 · PMC12973086 · Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SMU1 is identified as a novel macrophage-related gene associated with AAA development, serving as a potential diagnostic biomarker and therapeutic target

  aaa macrophage-related merged gwas single-cell bulk rt-qpcr

• Boolean logic links chromatin accessibility states to gene expression variability across cell types.

  PMID 41909952 · PMC13148175 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  ocrRBBR infers interpretable Boolean rules from combinations of accessible OCRs that explain gene expression variability across cell types

  immune genes atac-seq bulk hi-c

• Mouse placentae generated by in vitro fertilization exhibit altered gene expression, activated hypoxia responses, and reduced fitness†.

  PMID 40874534 · PMC12808545 · Biology of reproduction · 2026 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  IVF-conceived mouse placentae exhibit global and cell type–specific gene expression differences compared to FB placentae

  e12.5 differentially trophoblast placenta single-nucleus pseudobulk pathway

• CellPolaris: Transfer Learning for Gene Regulatory Network Construction to Guide Cell State Transitions.

  PMID 41498638 · PMC12948241 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CellPolaris is a unified computational framework performing TF-centered GRN construction, master TF identification, and TF perturbation simulation

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• EPInformer: scalable and integrative prediction of gene expression from promoter-enhancer sequences with multimodal epigenomic profiles.

  PMID 41832145 · PMC13133354 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  EPInformer outperforms existing gene expression prediction models (Xpresso, CREaTor, Seq-GraphReg, Enformer, Borzoi) in rigorous 12-fold cross-chromosome validation for both RNA-seq and CAGE expression prediction

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• Combining transcriptional profiling and genetic linkage analysis to uncover gene networks operating in hematopoietic stem cells and their progeny.

  PMID 18560825 · PMC2493868 · Immunogenetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Neither transcriptional profiling alone nor genetic linkage analysis alone has been an effective approach to identify genes or gene networks that specify stemness or initiate differentiation/lineage specification.

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• Characterizing gene perturbations in single cells via network divergence analysis.

  PMID 41965857 · PMC13249949 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scDNS quantifies gene-specific functional perturbations by measuring Jensen-Shannon divergence between condition-specific gene interaction network configurations

  ipsc-derived embryonic panc-1 triple scrna-seq single-nucleus

• Utilizing the codon adaptation index to evaluate the susceptibility to HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses in possible target cells in humans.

  PMID 36760235 · PMC9905242 · Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CAI is positively correlated with translational efficiency, validating its use as a proxy for translational efficiency at the elongation level.

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• Deep transcriptomics reveals cell-specific isoforms of pan-neuronal genes.

  PMID 40379625 · PMC12084633 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Pan-neuronal genes (expressed in many/all neurons) harbor highly cell-specific splice variants/isoforms restricted to single or few neuron types.

  elegans short-read whole-animal rt-pcr

• Pan-Cancer Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Analysis Refines Multi-Origin Monocyte and Macrophage Lineages.

  PMID 41231218 · PMC12865363 · Cancer immunology research · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  TAMs arise from two distinct origins: C1QC+ TAMs likely derive from resident tissue macrophages, while SPP1+ TAMs and ISG15+ TAMs likely originate from circulating monocytes.

  myeloid melanoma monocyte-to-macrophage coad-read scrna-seq differential developmental

• Identifying clinically relevant cell state interactions in the tumor microenvironment of IDH-mutant gliomas using CSI-TME.

  PMID 41807578 · PMC13230996 · Molecular systems biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  CSI-TME is a computational pipeline that deconvolves bulk tumor RNA-seq into cell-type-specific expression (via CODEFACS), infers transcriptional states per cell type via ICA, and identifies IC pairs from two cell types whose joint activity is associated with survival via Cox regression

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• HArmonized single-cell RNA-seq Cell type Assisted Deconvolution (HASCAD).

  PMID 37907883 · PMC10619225 · BMC medical genomics · 2023 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  Removal of batch effects in reference scRNA-seq datasets (via Harmony-Symphony) benefits the task of cell composition deconvolution

  pbmc derived tcga-lihc scrna-seq simulated bulk

• An integrative single-nucleus multiomic atlas of the human left ventricle identifies gene regulatory network dynamics across cardiac development, aging, and disease.

  PMID 41937210 · PMC13067603 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Constructed an integrated multiomic atlas of the human left ventricle combining ~2.3M snRNA-seq nuclei from 299 donors and ~690K snATAC-seq nuclei from 106 donors

  left heart cardiac snrna-seq snatac-seq bulk

• SARS-CoV-2 infection during the first trimester leads to profound immune dysregulation at the maternal-fetal interface despite limited virus detection in placental tissues.

  PMID 41974725 · PMC13249863 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SARS-CoV-2 rarely infects villous and decidual placental tissues in the first trimester despite maternal infection

  villous maternal rt-qpcr fluorescence indirect

• SpaNiche: spatial niche analysis to explore colocalization patterns and cellular interactions in spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 42015285 · PMC13231777 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  SpaNiche integrates smoothed cell-type abundance and ligand-receptor expression matrices via graph-regularized joint NMF, across multiple spatial views, to identify colocalization patterns

  lymph colorectal prostate cerebral simulated spatial scrna-seq