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).

• Direct maximum parsimony phylogeny reconstruction from genotype data.

  PMID 18053244 · PMC2222657 · BMC bioinformatics · 2007 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  The paper presents the first practical method for computing maximum parsimony phylogenies directly from genotype data, using integer linear programming.

  simulated mitochondrial lipoprotein coalescent maximum sliding-window

• SIRE 2.0: a novel method for estimating polygenic host effects underlying infectious disease transmission, and analytical expressions for prediction accuracies.

  PMID 40169992 · PMC11963337 · Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE · 2025 · 8 claims · 2 setups

  Has reproduction · 83

  SIRE 2.0 is a novel Bayesian methodology and software tool for estimating polygenic contributions (variance components and additive genetic effects) to host susceptibility, infectivity and recoverability from temporal epidemic data using pedigree/genomic relationship matrices.

  simulated bayesian systematic

• Deep learning from phylogenies to uncover the epidemiological dynamics of outbreaks.

  PMID 35794110 · PMC9258765 · Nature communications · 2022 · 8 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 94

  Deep learning (FFNN-SS and CNN-CBLV) enables accurate and fast likelihood-free estimation of epidemiological parameters and model selection from phylogenies

  simulated same hiv-1 simulation-based bayesian maximum-likelihood

• Tracing human genetic histories and natural selection with precise local ancestry inference.

  PMID 40379651 · PMC12084304 · Nature communications · 2025 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 76

  Orchestra, a two-stage LAI method combining a recombination-distance base layer with a deep learning (convolutional + attention) smoothing module, outperforms RFmix, FLARE and Gnomix in precision and recall across simulated admixture generations.

  1kgp-16pops independent simulated 1kgp simulated population-level local

• Inferring human colonization history using a copying model.

  PMID 18497854 · PMC2367454 · PLoS genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A copying-model approach using SNP haplotype sharing can infer both the order of population founding and the donor populations contributing ancestry to each new population.

  simulated populations coalescent snp ascertainment

• Single-cell omics data-driven decoding of tumor clonal evolution through reinforcement learning.

  PMID 41998716 · PMC13224513 · Genome medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  scRevol is an RL-based model that infers tumor clonal evolution from scRNA-seq-derived CNV profiles via a label assignment learning strategy.

  simulated lineage ovarian scrna-seq-derived

• VIST: variational inference for single cell time series.

  PMID 41535949 · PMC12892444 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  VIST is a VAE-based method that decomposes single-cell gene expression into time-dependent and time-independent latent components

  toy drosophila aorta lung synthetic time-course latent

• Modeling genetic inheritance of copy number variations.

  PMID 18832372 · PMC2588508 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  A joint HMM framework for parents-offspring trios significantly improves CNV call rates and boundary inference accuracy compared to existing methods.

  simulated parent-offspring hapmap hmm-based snp genotype

• Deep learning linking mechanistic models to single-cell transcriptomics data reveals transcriptional bursting in response to DNA damage.

  PMID 41779826 · PMC12959883 · eLife · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  DeepTX is an interpretable, scalable deep learning inference framework that links mechanistic transcription models to scRNA-seq data to infer genome-wide transcriptional burst kinetics

  synthetic embryonic colorectal computational stochastic scrna-seq deep

• Computation of haplotypes on SNPs subsets: advantage of the "global method".

  PMID 17067372 · PMC1636337 · BMC genetics · 2006 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  The global method for subhaplotyping always yields a lower error rate than the direct method across datasets and SNP subset sizes

  gh1 apoe coalescent-model-simulated griv computational genetic

• 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

• Spider: a flexible and unified framework for simulating spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41237053 · PMC12790819 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Spider simulates ST data without requiring real ST data as a reference

  simulated hypothalamus dorsolateral spatial clustering cell-cell

• Interpretable trajectory inference with single-cell linear adaptive negative-binomial expression (scLANE) testing.

  PMID 41533563 · PMC12802912 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  scLANE models gene expression as a piecewise negative-binomial GLM using truncated power basis (hinge) functions with adaptively chosen knots, yielding directly interpretable multiplicative effect sizes for trajectory differential expression

  zebrafish simulated diverse trajectory simulation

• scGACL: a generative adversarial network with multi-scale contrastive learning for accurate single-cell RNA sequencing imputation.

  PMID 41632596 · PMC12866930 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  scGACL, a GAN integrated with multi-scale contrastive learning, is proposed to overcome the over-smoothing problem in scRNA-seq imputation

  simulated real-world scrna-seq scrna-seq clustering gene

• The origins of lactase persistence in Europe.

  PMID 19714206 · PMC2722739 · PLoS computational biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  The −13,910*T allele first underwent selection among dairying farmers around 7,500 years ago in a region between the central Balkans and central Europe, possibly linked to the Linearbandkeramik culture.

  simulated simulation 910*t farming demic approximate comparison

• Ultra-precision deconvolution of spatial transcriptomics decodes immune heterogeneity and fate-defining programs in tissues.

  PMID 41862467 · PMC13168514 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  UCASpatial is a novel deconvolution algorithm that uses Shannon entropy-based gene weighting combined with weighted non-negative least squares to estimate cell-type composition from spatial transcriptomics data

  simulated colorectal hippocampus ear simulated runtime spatial

• scZiva: imputation method for single-cell RNA-seq data with zero-inflated variational autoencoder.

  PMID 41857511 · PMC13122936 · BMC bioinformatics · 2026 · 8 claims · 1 setups

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  scZiva is a novel VAE-based imputation method for scRNA-seq data using a Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial (ZINB) likelihood.

  simulated scrna-seq

• Benchmarking RNA velocity methods across 17 independent studies.

  PMID 41916302 · PMC13106975 · Cell reports methods · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  No single RNA velocity method exhibited superior performance across all accuracy, stability, and usability assessments

  scrna-seq same representative dyngen-simulated velocity cross-method downsampling

• Differential cell signaling testing for cell-cell communication inference from single-cell data by dominoSignal.

  PMID 41746282 · PMC12998610 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  dominoSignal extends the Domino algorithm to enable statistical testing of differential cell-cell signaling between experimental conditions.

  single-cell simulated pdac per-sample single-cell simulation cell-cell

• Tractor workflow: a scalable Nextflow framework for local ancestry-aware genome-wide association studies.

  PMID 41838407 · PMC13197121 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Developed a scalable Nextflow workflow that automates phasing, local ancestry inference (LAI), and Tractor GWAS into a reproducible end-to-end pipeline

  biobank phased two-way simulated haplotype local gwas