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).

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

  PMID 37907883 · PMC10619225 · BMC medical genomics · 2023 · 6 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  HASCAD, a DNN-based cell composition deconvolution model, predicts the fractions of up to 15 immune cell types from bulk RNA-seq.

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• Cell type-specific eQTL analysis of COVID-19 based on single-cell transcriptomic data.

  PMID 41064594 · PMC12501775 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 51

  Single-cell eQTL analysis across eight immune cell types identified 2593 genes whose expression is significantly associated with common genetic polymorphisms, with most genes showing cell type-specific effects

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• Hierarchical cell-type identifier accurately distinguishes immune-cell subtypes enabling precise profiling of tissue microenvironment with single-cell RNA-sequencing.

  PMID 36681937 · PMC10025442 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 94

  HiCAT is a hierarchical, marker-based cell-type identifier that uses gene set analysis (GSA) scoring with markers structured in a three-level taxonomy tree (major-type, minor-type, subset)

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• Bulk and single-cell characterisation of the immune heterogeneity of atherosclerosis identifies novel targets for immunotherapy.

  PMID 36855107 · PMC9974063 · BMC biology · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 70

  Integration of scRNA-seq datasets from human atherosclerosis samples identifies 28 distinct immune cell subpopulations with heterogeneity in tissue preference, genetics, function, immune dynamics, transcriptional regulators, metabolism, and cell communication.

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• Evaluating Distribution and Prognostic Value of New Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in HCC Based on a scRNA-Seq Study With CIBERSORTx.

  PMID 33043022 · PMC7527443 · Frontiers in medicine · 2020 · 5 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 78

  CIBERSORTx can combine scRNA-seq-derived signatures with bulk HCC transcriptomes to estimate proportions of 11 TIL subsets and infer cell-type-specific gene expression.

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• An individualized causal framework for learning intercellular communication networks that define microenvironments of individual tumors.

  PMID 36548438 · PMC9822106 · PLoS computational biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  An individualized causal analysis framework can discover tumor-specific intercellular communication networks (ICNs) from transcriptomic data

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• Deciphering the Immune Microenvironment at the Forefront of Tumor Aggressiveness by Constructing a Regulatory Network with Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomic Data.

  PMID 38254989 · PMC10815467 · Genes · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  Combining scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics enables inference of malignant cells at the invasive front of the ER+ breast cancer TME and dissection of events at the tumor infiltration forefront

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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

  Has reproduction · 85

  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.

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

  PMID 34382341 · PMC8446556 · Cancer medicine · 2021 · 7 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction

  A 10 immune-related gene signature (BMPR1B, GHR, IL11RA, INHBB, NPR3, OBP2A, PTN, R3HDML, TAC1, TPM2) was constructed via WGCNA combined with LASSO-Cox and predicts overall survival in gastric cancer

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• The molecular landscape of sepsis severity in infants: enhanced coagulation, innate immunity, and T cell repression.

  PMID 38817614 · PMC11137207 · Frontiers in immunology · 2024 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 50

  Most published adult/other-cohort sepsis gene signatures have limited utility for infant sepsis; only 2 of 7 achieved >80% accuracy in infants

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• Community assessment of methods to deconvolve cellular composition from bulk gene expression.

  PMID 39191725 · PMC11350143 · Nature communications · 2024 · 8 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 63

  Most deconvolution methods accurately predict coarse-grained immune/stromal cell populations from bulk expression.

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• Machine learning-based identification of biomarkers and drugs in immunologically cold and hot pancreatic adenocarcinomas.

  PMID 39152432 · PMC11328457 · Journal of translational medicine · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 42

  PAAD tumors can be consensus-clustered into immunologically hot and cold subtypes based on CIBERSORT-derived immune cell fractions, with significantly different survival outcomes.

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• 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 · 7 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction

  Immune-activation-related T-cell populations (APA, TRM, stem-like, early/late dysfunctional T-cells) are more heavily infiltrated in ICI-responsive malignancies (melanoma, bladder) than in poorly responsive ones (ovarian, pancreatic).

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• An integrated single-cell and spatial proteotranscriptomics atlas of fibroblast-driven immunoregulation within the human adult oral cavity.

  PMID 42147490 · PMC13179517 · Cell press blue · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  Fibroblasts act as central regulators of structural immunity in the human oral cavity, forming peri-epithelial hubs enriched in effector cytokines

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• A reference profile-free deconvolution method to infer cancer cell-intrinsic subtypes and tumor-type-specific stromal profiles.

  PMID 32111252 · PMC7049190 · Genome medicine · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 91

  DeClust is a reference profile-free deconvolution method that simultaneously deconvolves bulk tumor expression into cancer, immune, and stromal compartments and clusters samples into cancer cell-intrinsic molecular subtypes, outputting subtype-specific reference profiles for the cohort rather than for individuals.

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• Molecular subtype of recurrent implantation failure reveals distinct endometrial etiology of female infertility.

  PMID 40660214 · PMC12257665 · Journal of translational medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 68

  RIF endometrial samples segregate into two reproducible molecular subtypes: an immune-driven subtype (RIF-I) and a metabolic-driven subtype (RIF-M)

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• Unveiling the immunometabolic landscape of colorectal cancer through PANoptosis-related gene expression.

  PMID 41601652 · PMC12832467 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 41

  A CPAN-index prognostic model built from 11 PANoptosis-related differentially expressed genes (CPAN_DEGs) stratifies CRC patients into high-risk and low-risk groups with distinct survival and immunophenotypes.

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• Systems spatiotemporal dynamics of traumatic brain injury at single-cell resolution reveals humanin as a therapeutic target.

  PMID 35951114 · PMC9372016 · Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 98

  Coordinated gene expression patterns across cell types are disrupted and re-organized by mTBI with distinct regional, cellular, and temporal (24-h vs 7-day) specificity.

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• 5-methylcytosine RNA modification regulators-based patterns and features of immune microenvironment in acute myeloid leukemia.

  PMID 38277218 · PMC10911375 · Aging · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 93

  Most of the 17 m5C regulators are differentially expressed between AML and normal samples and correlate with AML prognosis.

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• Meta-analysis of COVID-19 single-cell studies confirms eight key immune responses.

  PMID 34675242 · PMC8531356 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 69

  Only 8 of 20 previously published COVID-19 scRNA-seq findings were reproducible across all relevant datasets in a standardized meta-analysis

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