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).

• An NMF-Based Methodology for Selecting Biomarkers in the Landscape of Genes of Heterogeneous Cancer-Associated Fibroblast Populations.

  PMID 32425511 · PMC7218276 · Bioinformatics and biology insights · 2020 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  An integrated methodology combining nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF), the WebGestalt functional enrichment tool, and an ad hoc gene extraction procedure automatically identifies informative gene subsets from microarray data matrices that differ in number of genes (rows) and patients (columns)

  caf bone extracted microarray functional

• Integrative microRNA and transcriptome analysis reveals sex-specific molecular divergence in human bladder cancer.

  PMID 41578372 · PMC12911049 · Biology of sex differences · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  48 tumor-specific sex-biased (TSSB) microRNAs were identified in bladder cancer, mostly located on autosomes rather than sex chromosomes

  tcga tssb blca mirna-seq bulk kegg

• Mining expressed sequence tags identifies cancer markers of clinical interest.

  PMID 17078886 · PMC1635568 · BMC bioinformatics · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  An EST-mining approach (Fisher Exact Test on tumor vs. non-tumor library hit counts) identifies differentially expressed transcripts with an estimated false discovery rate below 22% when human and mouse screens are combined.

  dbest cancer gene est human-mouse leave-one-out

• Genome wide identification of recessive cancer genes by combinatorial mutation analysis.

  PMID 18846217 · PMC2557123 · PloS one · 2008 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  A combinatorial mutation analysis identified 154 candidate recessive cancer genes (pRecessiveCancer<1.5x10-7, FDR=0.39)

  refseq tp53 tumor 154-gene est paired array

• Network Controllability Reveals Key Mitigation Points for Tumor-Promoting Signaling in Tumor-Educated Platelets.

  PMID 41226816 · PMC12609506 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  TEPs from NSCLC patients show 111 upregulated and 108 downregulated genes compared to platelets from non-cancer donors

  platelets degs platelet-specific tep-specific transcriptome pathway k-means

• Molecular Classification Models for Triple Negative Breast Cancer Subtype Using Machine Learning.

  PMID 34575658 · PMC8472680 · Journal of personalized medicine · 2021 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  TNBC can be divided into four gene-expression-defined subtypes: BLIA, BLIS, MES, and LAR

  tnbc unique 719-gene gene term machine

• Identification of a novel 10 immune-related genes signature as a prognostic biomarker panel for gastric cancer.

  PMID 34382341 · PMC8446556 · Cancer medicine · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A 10-IRG prognostic signature (BMPR1B, GHR, IL11RA, INHBB, NPR3, OBP2A, PTN, R3HDML, TAC1, TPM2) predicts overall survival in gastric cancer.

  gastric tcga-stad overlapping candidate microarray gene rna-seq

• Proneural-mesenchymal antagonism dominates the patterns of phenotypic heterogeneity in glioblastoma.

  PMID 38433919 · PMC10905000 · iScience · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The four proposed GBM molecular subtypes (Proneural, Neural, Classical, Mesenchymal / NPC-like, OPC-like, AC-like, MES-like) are not mutually exclusive or independent of one another

  scrna-seq tcga-gbm gse131928 tumor gene pairwise principal

• Assessment tool based on fatty acid metabolic signatures for predicting the prognosis and treatment response in bladder cancer.

  PMID 38076064 · PMC10703629 · Heliyon · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Consensus clustering of prognosis-related fatty acid metabolism genes (FAMGs) identifies three molecular subtypes of BLCA (FAMC1, FAMC2, FAMC3) with distinct prognoses and tumor microenvironments

  tcga-blca famc1-3 differentially gse32894 bulk consensus gene

• Pathway signatures derived from on-treatment tumor specimens predict response to anti-PD1 blockade in metastatic melanoma.

  PMID 34654806 · PMC8519947 · Nature communications · 2021 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  A pathway-based super signature from on-treatment samples (PASS-ON) predicts anti-PD1 response with high accuracy (validation AUC 0.85-0.89, combined AUC 0.88) and outperforms existing signatures across all four datasets.

  metastatic pathway bulk gene elastic-net

• Differential Infiltration of Key Immune T-Cell Populations Across Malignancies Varying by Immunogenic Potential and the Likelihood of Response to Immunotherapy.

  PMID 39682743 · PMC11640164 · Cells · 2024 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Estimated T-cell infiltration differs significantly across melanoma, bladder, ovarian, and pancreatic cancers, tracking known immunogenic potential.

  tumor melanoma orien bulk gene kaplan-meier

• Mutually exclusive teams-like patterns of gene regulation characterize phenotypic heterogeneity along the noradrenergic-mesenchymal axis in neuroblastoma.

  PMID 38230570 · PMC10795782 · Cancer biology & therapy · 2024 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  NOR-specific and MES-specific gene expression patterns are largely mutually exclusive, exhibiting a teams-like behavior across multiple bulk NB transcriptomic datasets

  lines bulk single-cell housekeeping bulk pca single-sample

• Constructing an APOBEC-related gene signature with predictive value in the overall survival and therapeutic sensitivity in lung adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 37954334 · PMC10637964 · Heliyon · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  APOBEC family genes are differentially expressed across cancer types and tissues, with APOBEC3B being the most aberrantly upregulated gene in most cancers including LUAD

  tcga tcga-luad beas-2b rna-seq somatic gene

• 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

• Integrative analysis of transcriptomic data reveals a predictive gene signature for chemoradiotherapy response in rectal cancer.

  PMID 41550766 · PMC12803930 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A 186-gene signature predictive of nCRT response was derived from integrating six GEO transcriptomic datasets using machine learning.

  pre-treatment combined larc 186-gene differential machine molecular

• A taxonomy of epithelial human cancer and their metastases.

  PMID 20017941 · PMC2806369 · BMC medical genomics · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Unsupervised hierarchical clustering of 1566 primary epithelial tumors yields large tissue-enriched clusters (breast, colon/GI, lung, ovary, kidney) plus smaller prostate, thyroid-kidney, and mixed clusters

  epithelial tumor metastatic breast microarray gene fisher

• Cancer-wide in silico analyses using differentially expressed genes demonstrate the functions and clinical relevance of JAG, DLL, and NOTCH.

  PMID 39074091 · PMC11285958 · PloS one · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  JAG, DLL, and NOTCH family gene/protein expression varies diversely across 15 cancer types relative to normal tissue, sometimes discordant between mRNA and protein levels.

  tumor degs cancer jag bulk proteomics gene

• Estrogen Production in Pancreatic Cancer Shapes a Tumor-Suppressive Stromal Microenvironment.

  PMID 41258799 · PMC12862343 · Cancer research · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Serum levels of stromal biomarkers associated with favorable outcomes were significantly higher in female patients with PDAC than in male patients

  pdac pdx magnetic bioinformatic single-nucleus

• Leveraging the germ layer development patterns to predict prognosis and identify MEST as a novel therapeutic target in glioma.

  PMID 41501725 · PMC12870398 · Cancer cell international · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  MEST is a key oncogenic GLD-related gene and a novel therapeutic target in glioma, identified via a machine learning feature selection framework

  bulk single-cell tcga glioma gsva aucell machine

• Omics Playground: a comprehensive self-service platform for visualization, analytics and exploration of Big Omics Data.

  PMID 33575569 · PMC7671354 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2020 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Omics Playground is a user-friendly, interactive self-service platform for in-depth analysis, visualization, and interpretation of transcriptomics and proteomics data, including single-cell RNA-seq.

  l1000 bulk lc-ms single-cell