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).

• ConNIS and labeling instability: New statistical methods for improving the detection of essential genes in TraDIS libraries.

  PMID 41790830 · PMC12991369 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  ConNIS provides an analytic probability distribution for the length of the longest insertion-free sequence within a gene, given gene length and expected insertion count.

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• Essential Genes of Vibrio anguillarum and Other Vibrio spp. Guide the Development of New Drugs and Vaccines.

  PMID 34745063 · PMC8564382 · Frontiers in microbiology · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Tn-seq using the TnSC189 mariner transposon identified 329 essential genes in V. anguillarum NB10Sm from a library of 52,662 insertion mutants.

  vibrio coli anguillarum transposon-insertion conjugative functional

• Evolution of two distinct phylogenetic lineages of the emerging human pathogen Mycobacterium ulcerans.

  PMID 17900363 · PMC2098775 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  M. ulcerans has evolved into five InDel haplotypes that separate into two distinct phylogenetic lineages: a 'classical' lineage (Africa, Australia, South East Asia) and an 'ancestral' lineage (Asia, South America, Mexico)

  ulcerans marinum plasmid-based pcr genome

• Large-scale discovery of insertion hotspots and preferential integration sites of human transposed elements.

  PMID 20008508 · PMC2836564 · Nucleic acids research · 2010 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Most TEs insert within specific 'hotspots' along the targeted TE rather than uniformly.

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• Requirements for Pseudomonas aeruginosa acute burn and chronic surgical wound infection.

  PMID 25057820 · PMC4109851 · PLoS genetics · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  In vivo gene expression is generally not correlated with a gene's importance for fitness, with the exception of metabolic genes, for which differential expression is more predictive of fitness.

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• Continued colonization of the human genome by mitochondrial DNA.

  PMID 15361937 · PMC515365 · PLoS biology · 2004 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  NUMT insertion into nuclear chromosomes is an ongoing process shaped by double-strand-break repair (as shown in yeast) and continuing in humans.

  homo genomic chimpanzee genome genome-wide pcr sanger

• The application of basic science to translational cancer research.

  PMID 12620114 · PMC151297 · Genome biology · 2003 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Sister-chromatid separation at anaphase is triggered by degradation of securin, releasing the protease separase to cleave the cohesin ring holding chromatids together

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• An Asilomar moment.

  PMID 12372138 · PMC244904 · Genome biology · 2002 · 7 claims · 3 setups

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  The current push to restrict genomics/pathogen research funding and publication due to bioterrorism fears parallels the 1975 Asilomar Conference response to recombinant DNA risks.

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• A macaque's-eye view of human insertions and deletions: differences in mechanisms.

  PMID 17941704 · PMC1976337 · PLoS computational biology · 2007 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Insertion and deletion rates are differentially associated with replication- versus recombination-related genomic features, indicating the two mutation types are driven in part by distinct mechanisms

  chimpanzee non-overlapping 1-mb 100-kb comparative regression kruskal-wallis

• Endonuclease-independent insertion provides an alternative pathway for L1 retrotransposition in the human genome.

  PMID 17517773 · PMC1920257 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  An endonuclease-independent pathway (NCLI) for L1 insertion has been active in recent human genome evolution

  genome chimpanzee genomic pcr computational triple pcr

• Sequence context affects the rate of short insertions and deletions in flies and primates.

  PMID 18291026 · PMC2374710 · Genome biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The rate of insertion or deletion of specific lengths can vary by more than 100-fold depending on the surrounding sequence context

  chimpanzee simulans chimp primate comparative direct nucleotide

• TC-hunter: identification of the insertion site of a transgenic gene within the host genome.

  PMID 35184734 · PMC8859905 · BMC genomics · 2022 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  TC-hunter is an open-source Nextflow pipeline that identifies transgene insertion sites using chimeric reads and discordant read pairs from NGS data.

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• Genomic rearrangements by LINE-1 insertion-mediated deletion in the human and chimpanzee lineages.

  PMID 16034026 · PMC1179734 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  L1 insertions are directly responsible for genomic deletions (L1IMDs) confirmed in both human and chimpanzee genomes

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• Whole-genome experimental identification of insertion/deletion polymorphisms of interspersed repeats by a new general approach.

  PMID 15673711 · PMC548376 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A new technique combining whole-genome selective PCR amplification and subtractive hybridization can experimentally identify polymorphic retroelement insertions without prior knowledge of RE evolutionary history or sequence

  genomic driver coli individual whole-genome subtractive cloning

• A high throughput method for genome-wide analysis of retroviral integration.

  PMID 17028098 · PMC1636494 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  VITA uses MmeI to cleave DNA at a fixed distance from its recognition site, generating 21-22 bp genomic tags that serve as signatures of lentiviral integration sites.

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• RetroSnake: A modular pipeline to detect human endogenous retroviruses in genome sequencing data.

  PMID 36339261 · PMC9626663 · iScience · 2022 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  RetroSnake is an end-to-end, modular, computationally efficient Snakemake pipeline for detecting HERV-K insertions in short-read NGS data, from raw alignment files to an annotated interactive HTML report

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• TEPEAK: A novel method for identifying and characterizing polymorphic transposable elements in non-model species populations.

  PMID 41494038 · PMC12788660 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  TEPEAK identifies and characterizes polymorphic TEs in populations without any prior TE sequence or loci information, using only a chromosome-level reference assembly.

  horse pooled sequences consensus whole-genome insertion hierarchical

• A single-nucleotide enhancer mutation overrides chromosomal sex to drive XX male development.

  PMID 41957362 · PMC13066550 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A 3 bp deletion or a 1 bp insertion in the Enh13 SOX9 binding site causes complete XX female-to-male sex reversal in adult homozygous mice

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• Genome-wide analysis of the human Alu Yb-lineage.

  PMID 15588477 · PMC3525081 · Human genomics · 2004 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  1,733 Alu Yb-lineage elements are present on human autosomal chromosomes

  genome genomic non-human yb7 computational pcr-based pcr

• Genome assembly comparison identifies structural variants in the human genome.

  PMID 17115057 · PMC2674632 · Nature genetics · 2006 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Genome assembly comparison is a robust approach for identifying all classes of genetic variation, with no lower size limit.

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