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).

• How bacterial communities expand functional repertoires.

  PMID 17238278 · PMC1750926 · PLoS biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The human microbiome contains roughly 100 times as many genes as does the human genome

  bacteroides distal interleukin-10-deficient macrophages transcriptional metagenomic microbiota

• An OMICs-based meta-analysis to support infection state stratification.

  PMID 33560295 · PMC8388022 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2021 · 7 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 44

  Multi-class machine learning models built from cross-platform microarray meta-analysis can distinguish bacterial, viral and no-infection states with high accuracy (best model: 93% bacterial, 89% viral correct).

  blood merged affymetrix-optimized gene feature out-of-sample

• A four-gene signature from blood to exclude bacterial etiology of lower respiratory tract infection in adults.

  PMID 41285807 · PMC12644739 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 94

  A 4-gene signature (ITGB4, ITGA7, IFI27, FAM20A) derived from whole blood RNA-seq discriminates any bacterial from nonbacterial ARI with cross-validated AUC = 0.90

  hospitalized adults pediatric blood bulk rna-seq microarray

• From Pasteur to genomics: progress and challenges in infectious diseases.

  PMID 15516917 · PMC7096024 · Nature medicine · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Genomic sequencing has revealed the blueprint of most pathogens, enabling new diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines including for previously uncultivable agents.

  bacterial neisseria sars hiv-infected whole-genome reverse nucleic

• Microbial genomics: from sequence to function.

  PMID 10998380 · PMC2627950 · Emerging infectious diseases · 2000 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Whole-genome shotgun sequencing (sequencing and assembly of random genome fragments), first demonstrated with Haemophilus influenzae in 1995, is now the method of choice for sequencing most genomes, including the human genome.

  yeast bacteria microbial high-throughput microarray ribosomal

• Genomics--from Neanderthals to high-throughput sequencing.

  PMID 16934106 · PMC1779599 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Next-generation sequencing platforms (GS20/454 and Solexa) can deliver the throughput and cost reductions needed for population-scale and medical resequencing.

  bacterial ion-channel drosophila arrays next-generation pooled multiplex

• MetaGT: A pipeline for de novo assembly of metatranscriptomes with the aid of metagenomic data.

  PMID 36386613 · PMC9651917 · Frontiers in microbiology · 2022 · 7 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 83

  MetaGT is a pipeline that combines metatranscriptomic and metagenomic data from the same sample to assemble complete transcript sequences

  simulated mock16 real snailgut novo transcript gene

• Host-pathogen studies in the post-genomic era.

  PMID 11178231 · PMC138846 · Genome biology · 2000 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  DNA arrays have been used to study host and/or pathogen gene expression for four viruses (HCMV, HHV8, HIV-1, HPV31) and two bacteria (Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella)

  foreskin b-cell t-cell normal pathogen host

• Systems biology approach for mapping the response of human urothelial cells to infection by Enterococcus faecalis.

  PMID 18047719 · PMC2099488 · BMC bioinformatics · 2007 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Deconvoluting gene expression variance into technical (Gaussian, ~6.5% relative SD) and biological components identifies hypervariable (HV) genes that reflect true biological response to infection without requiring replicates

  urothelial clustered genome-wide confocal k-means

• Single-cell analysis of testicular bacterial microbiome changes during aging and effect on reproductive capacity in mice.

  PMID 41438041 · PMC12719757 · iScience · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 78

  INVADE-seq (single-cell RNA-seq combined with 16S rRNA targeting) detects a sparse but widespread bacterial presence across diverse testicular cell types

  testis young testicular invade-seq histology sperm

• RNA interference in functional genomics and medicine.

  PMID 12808314 · PMC3055057 · Journal of Korean medical science · 2003 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  RNAi is sequence-specific gene silencing induced by double-stranded RNA and is mediated by ~22-nt siRNAs generated from long dsRNA by the RNase III enzyme Dicer.

  caenorhabditis drosophila mammalian postnatal dsrna biochemical synthetic

• An "omics" approach to uropathogenic Escherichia coli vaccinology.

  PMID 19758805 · PMC2770165 · Trends in microbiology · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  An 'omics'-based screening strategy integrating genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic data can identify PASivE UPEC proteins as vaccine candidates

  upec vaccination comparative two-dimensional

• Unlocking the microbial studies through computational approaches: how far have we reached?

  PMID 36920617 · PMC10016191 · Environmental science and pollution research international · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Metagenomics enables culture-independent study of microbial communities directly from their natural environments, bypassing the need for clonal isolation.

  clinical bacteriophage vaginal hbv ngs random whole-genome

• The mouse gastric surface epithelial cell and its response to early Helicobacter pylori infection.

  PMID 41824631 · PMC13020875 · Virulence · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 100

  LCM followed by RNA-Seq is a feasible methodology for characterizing gastric SMCs and their host response to H. pylori infection in vivo

  c57bl gastric ffpe rna-seq mass immunofluorescence

• Metatranscriptomics of the human oral microbiome during health and disease.

  PMID 24692635 · PMC3977359 · mBio · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 62

  Disease-associated periodontal communities display conserved community-level metabolic gene expression profiles between patients, whereas the metabolic gene expression of individual species is highly variable between patients.

  patient-matched subset health rna-seq rrna comparison metatranscriptomics

• A genomics-based approach to biodefence preparedness.

  PMID 14708013 · PMC7097618 · Nature reviews. Genetics · 2004 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Genome sequence data are now available for essentially all 25-30 principal human bacterial pathogens, including most CDC category A-C bioterror agents

  bacillus brucella neisseria gastric comparative transcriptome two-dimensional

• Critical care: applying genomics to inflammation outcomes.

  PMID 16330338 · PMC1314943 · Environmental health perspectives · 2005 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Genetic factors drive key aspects of an individual's inflammatory outcome after trauma, burns, or sepsis

  leukocytes whole-blood healthy peripheral genomewide whole-genome microarray

• Severe COVID-19 Shares a Common Neutrophil Activation Signature with Other Acute Inflammatory States.

  PMID 35269470 · PMC8909161 · Cells · 2022 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 88

  COVID-19 and HLH share immunological pathways, yielding 237 common up-regulated DEGs dominated by cytokine/chemokine signaling and neutrophil-mediated immune responses.

  peripheral leukocytes plasma degs bulk single-cell plasma

• 4-Methylcytosine DNA modification is critical for global epigenetic regulation and virulence in the human pathogen Leptospira interrogans.

  PMID 33301041 · PMC7708080 · Nucleic acids research · 2020 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 78

  A 4mC orphan MTase (lomA) is present only in the pathogenic (P) clade of Leptospira and methylates CTAG motifs.

  interrogans canine syrian smrt bulk rt-qpcr

• The post-genomic era for a select few.

  PMID 14759254 · PMC395745 · Genome biology · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The Exofish comparative-genomics tool identifies protein-coding DNA segments by comparing two genome sequences and was used to compare pufferfish (Takifugu, Tetraodon) genomes with mammalian genomes, improving annotation of the human and mouse genomes.

  takifugu physcomitrella coli vibrio comparative genetic dna-microarray