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).

• Microarray analysis: genome-scale hypothesis scanning.

  PMID 14551912 · PMC212694 · PLoS biology · 2003 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Microarrays can be used to both test and generate hypotheses, not merely to fish for candidate genes.

  drosophila yeast diffuse breast microarray integrated gene

• A P4HA2 hypoxia signature derived from single cell atlas stratifies conserved subtypes with prognostic significance in cervical squamous cell carcinoma.

  PMID 41559646 · PMC12910786 · BMC cancer · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  A tumor cell metaprogram (MP7) identified from scRNA-seq of CSCC shows elevated hypoxia, invasion, metastasis, proliferation, and angiogenesis scores compared to other metaprograms.

  cscc tcga-cscc mp7 siha single-cell bulk gene

• Bioinformatics Analysis of the Characteristics and Correlation of m6A Methylation in Breast Cancer Progression.

  PMID 35655723 · PMC9148239 · Contrast media & molecular imaging · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Breast cancer samples can be classified into 4 m6A subtypes (quiescent, m6A methylation, protein-binding, mixed) based on Z-score median of Set1 (writer+reader) and Set2 (eraser) gene expression

  breast tcga-brca gse25066 bioinformatics survival alternative

• Increased prevalence of hybrid epithelial/mesenchymal state and enhanced phenotypic heterogeneity in basal breast cancer.

  PMID 38974967 · PMC11225361 · iScience · 2024 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Luminal breast cancer gene expression signature is closely/positively associated with an epithelial signature

  breast-cancer-specific tcga ccle four single-sample survival genome-wide

• Radiogenomics predicts immune microenvironment heterogeneity and response to combination immunotherapy in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 41555384 · PMC12895822 · Journal of translational medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A parsimonious 2-gene immune-related signature (IRS = 0.425×KPNA2 + 0.302×SMG5) is significantly associated with immune heterogeneity and response to ICI plus anti-angiogenic combination therapy in HCC

  hcc gse202642 paired hcc-derived bulk single-cell immunohistochemistry

• Machine learning-based identification of an immunotherapy-related signature to enhance outcomes and immunotherapy responses in melanoma.

  PMID 39355255 · PMC11442245 · Frontiers in immunology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  66 consensus immunotherapy prognostic genes (CITPGs) were identified from the intersection of WGCNA modules, immunotherapy responder-vs-non-responder DEGs, and tumor-vs-normal DEGs

  melanoma tcga-skcm prjeb23709 microarray wgcna differential consensus

• Application of proteomics in the study of tumor metastasis.

  PMID 15862116 · PMC5172469 · Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cell function is directly regulated through proteins, not genes or mRNA, so metastasis-related gene findings need protein-level validation via proteomics.

  young metastatic hepatocellular lines microarray 2de cdna

• Molecular tumor profiling: translating genomic insights into clinical advances.

  PMID 15287965 · PMC507868 · Genome biology · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Gene-expression profiling can distinguish BRCA1- and BRCA2-linked breast tumors from sporadic breast tumors with similar hormone-receptor status

  breast ovarian panel tumor gene-expression candidate-gene large-scale

• 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

• Prospective health care: the second transformation of medicine.

  PMID 16522218 · PMC1431721 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Predictive biomarkers (genomic, proteomic, metabolomic) will enable quantification of disease risk and anticipation of onset before pathological damage occurs.

  cancer circulating breast population gene-expression proteomic 21-gene

• Identifying Molecular Subtypes and 6-Gene Prognostic Signature Based on Hypoxia for Optimizing Targeted Therapies in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.

  PMID 35509605 · PMC9058021 · International journal of general medicine · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  NSCLC samples can be classified into two molecular subtypes (C1 and C2) based on hypoxia-related gene expression via consensus clustering

  tcga-nsclc geo bulk microarray unsupervised

• Human disease classification in the postgenomic era: a complex systems approach to human pathobiology.

  PMID 17625512 · PMC1948102 · Molecular systems biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Current syndromic disease classification lacks specificity despite historically serving clinicians well

  prostate neurodegenerative experimental genetic reverse-engineered protein-protein gene

• Divide and conquer: progress in the molecular stratification of cancer.

  PMID 19718393 · PMC2730607 · Yonsei medical journal · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cancers exhibit significant clinical, histopathologic, and molecular heterogeneity between individual patients

  breast nsclc colon early-stage immunohistochemistry gene comparative

• Heterogeneity of cancer-associated fibroblasts in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

  PMID 37320872 · PMC10277597 · Translational oncology · 2023 · 8 claims · 9 setups

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  Seven distinct CAF subsets exist in HNSCC, identified via integration of scRNA-seq, bulk transcriptomic, and spatial transcriptomic data.

  hnscc tcga-hnscc caf fibroblast single-cell bulk spatial

• Integrative single-cell analysis uncovers distinct tumour microenvironment ecotypes and immune evasion across skin cancers.

  PMID 41636115 · PMC12869349 · Clinical and translational medicine · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A malignant NARS2+NDUFC2+ melanoma cell subpopulation with reduced MHC-I expression is enriched in advanced-stage tumours and associated with worse survival and immunotherapy response.

  skin prognosis melanoma macrophage single-cell bulk immunofluorescence

• Have microarrays failed to deliver for developmental biology?

  PMID 12225576 · PMC139405 · Genome biology · 2002 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Despite predictions that microarrays would transform biology, very few published developmental biology microarray studies have generated novel insights.

  drosophila caenorhabditis developing xenopus cdna genome-wide microarray

• A machine learning-defined cellular senescence signature systematically enhances prognostication and guides immunotherapy strategies for the treatment of gliomas.

  PMID 41501133 · PMC12886967 · NPJ precision oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CSRGPS is a robust, machine-learning-derived prognostic signature that outperforms existing glioma prognostic models across multiple cohorts

  tcga-gbm glioma meta consensus wgcna machine