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).

• metaGEM: reconstruction of genome scale metabolic models directly from metagenomes.

  PMID 34614189 · PMC8643649 · Nucleic acids research · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 64

  metaGEM enables end-to-end reconstruction of FBA-ready GEMs directly from metagenomes without relying on reference genomes

  metagenomic prokaryotic reconstructed gut mag genome-scale gem

• Reconstruction of 2,965 Microbial Genomes from Mangrove Sediments across Guangxi, China.

  PMID 41419779 · PMC12858935 · Scientific data · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 87

  A standardized assembly, binning, and dereplication pipeline was used to reconstruct 2,965 non-redundant MAGs from 38 mangrove sediment samples across six sites in Guangxi

  mangrove sediment quality-filtered bacterial whole-genome physicochemical laser

• Grass supplementation to a pellet-based diet fails to enrich gut microbiomes with wild-like functions in captive-bred hares.

  PMID 41784373 · PMC13055366 · Microbiology spectrum · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Significant taxonomic and functional differences exist between the gut microbiota of wild and captive-bred European hares

  fecal gut mag mags shotgun alpha differential

• Genomic Description of 'Candidatus Abyssubacteria,' a Novel Subsurface Lineage Within the Candidate Phylum Hydrogenedentes.

  PMID 30210471 · PMC6121073 · Frontiers in microbiology · 2018 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  SURF_5 and SURF_17 are the first full genomes of a novel bacterial lineage, 'Candidatus Abyssubacteria,' within the candidate phylum Hydrogenedentes

  deep co-assembled surf_17 surf_5 whole-genome novo 16s

• binny: an automated binning algorithm to recover high-quality genomes from complex metagenomic datasets.

  PMID 36239393 · PMC9677464 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  binny outperforms or is highly competitive with commonly used and state-of-the-art binning methods (MetaBAT2, MaxBin2, CONCOCT, VAMB, SemiBin, MetaDecoder)

  cami real-world metagenomic binned genome binning mag

• A novel and dual digestive symbiosis scales up the nutrition and immune system of the holobiont Rimicaris exoculata.

  PMID 36333777 · PMC9636832 · Microbiome · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Reconstructed 20 MAGs including novel lineages of Hepatoplasmataceae (foregut-associated) and Deferribacteres (midgut-associated)

  rimicaris quality-filtered dereplicated deferribacteres shotgun ssu differential

• Genomic signatures of migratory preference and historical whaling in eastern South Pacific humpback whales.

  PMID 41986456 · PMC13161203 · Communications biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Nuclear genomic data show no clear population structure among feeding grounds, indicating panmixia despite divergent migratory destinations

  megaptera same unrelated regional whole-genome relatedness population

• nf-core/mag: a best-practice pipeline for metagenome hybrid assembly and binning.

  PMID 35118380 · PMC8808542 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  nf-core/mag is a Nextflow/nf-core pipeline for hybrid metagenome assembly, binning and taxonomic classification of MAGs.

  simulated assembled mags raw metagenomic novo genome

• Taxonomic and functional metagenomic assessment of a Dolichospermum bloom in a large and deep lake south of the Alps.

  PMID 39227168 · PMC11412076 · FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Phylogenomic analysis of the MAG clarified the taxonomic position of D. lemmermannii within the genus Dolichospermum and the ADA (Anabaena/Dolichospermum/Aphanizomenon) group

  surface bloom environmental dolichospermum shotgun lc-ms metagenome

• Discovery of Early-Branching Wolbachia Reveals Functional Enrichment on Horizontally Transferred Genes.

  PMID 35547116 · PMC9084900 · Frontiers in microbiology · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A novel early-branching Wolbachia strain (wTex), one of the earliest supergroup L strains, was discovered in a plant-parasitic nematode community from 1 of 16 sampled sites.

  rhizosphere nematode wtex wolbachia metagenomic pcr comparative

• The chromosomal genome sequence of the sponge Phakellia ventilabrum (Linnaeus, 1767) and its associated microbial metagenome sequences.

  PMID 41625985 · PMC12859430 · Wellcome open research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The Phakellia ventilabrum genome assembly spans 211.92 Mb with 99.97-99.98% scaffolded into 25 chromosomal pseudomolecules

  phakellia pacbio genome microbial pacbio hi-c sequencing

• The chromosomal genome sequence of the moon jellyfish, Aurelia sp. 4 Dawson et al. 2005 (Semaeostomeae: Ulmaridae) and its associated microbial metagenome sequences.

  PMID 42116832 · PMC13157608 · Wellcome open research · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Aurelia sp. 4 chromosomal genome assembly has a total length of 462.10 Mb with 99.99% of sequence scaffolded into 21 chromosomal pseudomolecules

  aurelia microbial pacbio hi-c rna-seq

• Single-cell sequencing reveals unexpected genetic diversity among Bodo spp. flagellates and their bacterial endosymbionts.

  PMID 41848149 · PMC12999062 · Microbial genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Seven single-cell genomes assembled from uncultured environmental Bodo cells represent three potentially novel Bodo species

  uncultured environmental single-cell bodo single-cell fluorescence-activated whole-genome

• Horizontal transmission enables flexible associations with locally adapted symbiont strains in deep-sea hydrothermal vent symbioses.

  PMID 35349333 · PMC9168483 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Host populations of Alviniconcha and Ifremeria are not genetically differentiated across an ~800-km geographic gradient

  gill chemosynthetic host epsilon rna-seq-based metagenomic phylogenomic

• SnakeMAGs: a simple, efficient, flexible and scalable workflow to reconstruct prokaryotic genomes from metagenomes.

  PMID 36875992 · PMC9978240 · F1000Research · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  SnakeMAGs is a simple, efficient, flexible and scalable Snakemake workflow that processes Illumina reads from raw data to MAG classification and relative abundance estimation

  publicly bins quality-filtered assembled workflow genome megahit

• Shotgun metagenomic analysis of the oral microbiomes of children with noma.

  PMID 41860897 · PMC13029773 · PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Noma oral microbiomes show marked dysbiosis with significant enrichment of Treponema, Porphyromonas, and Bacteroides, and depletion of Streptococcus and Rothia, compared to healthy controls

  oral saliva noma previously shotgun comparative metagenome

• Comparative Metagenomic Analysis of Biosynthetic Diversity across Sponge Microbiomes Highlights Metabolic Novelty, Conservation, and Diversification.

  PMID 35862823 · PMC9426513 · mSystems · 2022 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  The vast majority of recovered gene cluster families (GCFs) in sponge microbiomes show no similarity to any characterized BGC, revealing extreme biosynthetic novelty

  microbiomes sponge shotgun nonpareil 16s

• Mining the equine gut metagenome: poorly-characterized taxa associated with cardiovascular fitness in endurance athletes.

  PMID 36192523 · PMC9529974 · Communications biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Built an integrated horse gut microbiome gene catalog (~25 million unique genes) and 372 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) spanning 4179 genera and 95 phyla

  fecal horse dominant plasma shotgun taxonomic functional

• metaFun: An analysis pipeline for metagenomic big data with fast and unified functional searches.

  PMID 41530917 · PMC12818822 · Gut microbes · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  metaFun is an open-source, end-to-end Nextflow/Apptainer pipeline integrating quality control, taxonomic profiling, functional profiling, de novo assembly, binning, genome assessment, comparative genomics, network analysis, and strain-level microdiversity analysis into a unified framework

  simulated selected gut mags novo binning pangenome-based

• High-resolution metagenomic reconstruction of the freshwater spring bloom.

  PMID 36698172 · PMC9878933 · Microbiome · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  High-frequency metagenomic sampling (57 samples, 3 filter sizes, 2 depths, 37 days) recovers thousands of prokaryotic, eukaryotic, and viral genomes tracking spring bloom succession in fine detail

  freshwater phytoplankton heterotrophic reservoir 16s 18s shotgun