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).

• Tensor-cell2cell v2 unravels coordinated dynamics of protein- and metabolite-mediated cell-cell communication.

  PMID 41719185 · PMC12937581 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Tensor-cell2cell v2 implements a non-negative coupled tensor component analysis (CTCA) that jointly factorizes protein- and metabolite-mediated communication tensors sharing context, sender, and receiver dimensions while keeping ligand-type-specific (private) dimensions separate.

  cortical paired single-cell protein-mediated metabolite-mediated

• 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

• Calibrating tissue level PDE models of ligand dynamics using single cell and spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41714655 · PMC13039149 · NPJ systems biology and applications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics data provide a rich, underused source of information for calibrating tissue-scale PDE models of ligand dynamics.

  skin combined annotated scrna-seq single-cell spatial cell2location

• Developmental dynamics of catshark cranial neural crest cells provide insights into gnathostome facial evolution.

  PMID 41987760 · PMC13200729 · Development (Cambridge, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The molecular toolkit of CNCCs is largely conserved across jawed vertebrates (gnathostomes)

  scyliorhinus catshark chicken immunofluorescence single-cell umap

• Charting spatial ligand-target activity using Renoir.

  PMID 42086556 · PMC13144314 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Renoir computes a neighborhood activity score for curated ligand-target pairs at each spatial spot/cell by integrating cell type abundance, cell type-specific mRNA abundance, receptor expression, gene entropy, and mutual information between ligand and target genes.

  intestine triple-negative dorsolateral dlpfc semi-synthetic spatial single-cell

• Distinct origins and niches determine the cellular responsiveness of CNS macrophages after repopulation.

  PMID 41851525 · PMC13132723 · Nature immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Microglia repopulate rapidly and exclusively cell-autonomously from surviving microglia after CSF-1R inhibitor (BLZ945) depletion.

  brain cerebral cd11b+cd45int-hi leptomeninges flow confocal single-cell

• Construction of a SEMA3 family-based model to predict prognosis and molecular subtypes in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 41792569 · PMC13079247 · Discover oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SEMA3 family expression defines two molecular subtypes (A and B) of PDAC with significantly different overall survival

  pdac bulk ssgsea differential

• Benchmarking tools for deciphering cellular crosstalk in spatially-resolved transcriptomics.

  PMID 41952215 · PMC13174004 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  No prior systematic, quantitative benchmark exists for CCI inference methods specifically developed for spatial transcriptomics across multiple platforms

  synthetic real simulated simulation spot-purity real-data

• A differential single-cell transcriptome atlas of left-sided and right-sided colorectal cancer.

  PMID 41844817 · PMC13111741 · Discover oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MTRNR2L8 is markedly upregulated in RCRC tumor cells and is associated with poorer patient survival

  crc epithelial rcrc tcga-read scrna-seq copy gene

• Targeted and personalized immunotherapy in lung adenocarcinoma: single-cell RNA sequencing of MAFF+ tumor cells and the therapeutic potential of FOS.

  PMID 40936936 · PMC12420628 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A highly stem-like C0 MAFF+ tumor cell subtype dominates invasive LUAD, producing chemokines and activating lipid metabolism

  luad tumor a549 single-cell infercnv pseudotime

• Cis-regulatory evolution shapes facial diversity in birds and mammals.

  PMID 42090501 · PMC13148318 · Science advances · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Mesenchymal populations show markedly greater transcriptomic/regulatory divergence between mouse and chicken than ectodermal populations, pointing to a central role of mesenchyme in shaping facial morphology

  embryo chicken embryos single-cell situ cross-species

• 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

• Inferring a spatial code of cell-cell interactions across a whole animal body.

  PMID 36395331 · PMC9714814 · PLoS computational biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  cell2cell computes cell-cell interaction (CCI) potential using a novel modified Bray-Curtis score based on complementary coexpression of ligand-receptor pairs between cells

  elegans computational single-cell random genetic

• CIRCE: a scalable Python package to predict cis-regulatory DNA interactions from single-cell chromatin accessibility data.

  PMID 41734268 · PMC12987762 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  CIRCE re-implements the Cicero co-accessibility algorithm in Python, producing near-identical results while running much faster and using far less memory

  bmmc pbmc foetal cis-regulatory enhancer-promoter scalability

• PSGRN: Gene regulatory network inference from single-cell perturbational data through self-training with synthetic gold standards.

  PMID 42054465 · PMC13127566 · Science advances · 2026 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  PSGRN infers GRNs by generating pseudoannotations from gene-gene correlations and iteratively refining them via a self-training classifier using pre/post-intervention expression features.

  k562 rpe1 processed single-cell computational biological

• 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

• Unraveling the timeline of gene expression: A pseudotemporal trajectory analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 37994351 · PMC10663991 · F1000Research · 2023 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A comprehensive open-source R workflow combining trajectory inference (monocle3) and pseudo-bulk time course analysis (edgeR) can be applied to multi-sample scRNA-seq data of the mouse mammary gland.

  mammary aggregated single-cell quality doublet

• Bridging cancer cell-intrinsic driver genes and -extrinsic cell-cell communication with Driver2Comm.

  PMID 41701761 · PMC12928580 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Driver2Comm is a computational framework that identifies intrinsic-extrinsic (IE) pathways functionally connecting cancer cell driver genes with their associated CCC signatures in the TME using single-cell transcriptomics data.

  pdac genes tcga single-cell copy fisher's

• Systematic design of combination therapy by targeting master regulators of coexisting diffuse midline glioma cell states.

  PMID 42020604 · PMC13175895 · Nature genetics · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A generalizable, network-based framework was established to systematically identify combination therapies targeting complementary coexisting tumor cell states

  malignant eight patient-derived dmg single-cell pooled plate-seq

• Therapeutic Targeting of Oxidative Phosphorylation in Microsatellite Instability-High Gastric Cancer.

  PMID 42038020 · PMC13104725 · Journal of Cancer · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  MSI gastric cancer samples show significantly greater T cell infiltration and a lower proportion of epithelial cells compared to GS samples

  gastric epithelial stomach nod-scid single-cell cnv differential