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).

• CONSULT: accurate contamination removal using locality-sensitive hashing.

  PMID 34377979 · PMC8340999 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2021 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  CONSULT is a k-mer read-matching tool that uses locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) to allow inexact k-mer matches (within a user-defined Hamming distance) between query reads and a reference dataset.

  reference query genome k-mer contamination genome-skim

• Sparse and skew hashing of K-mers.

  PMID 35758794 · PMC9235479 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2022 · 7 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 95

  Exploiting sparsity and skewed distribution of k-mer minimizers with minimal perfect hashing substantially improves the space/time trade-off of a k-mer dictionary compared to best-known solutions

  cod kestrel genome bacterial k-mer

• LMAS: evaluating metagenomic short de novo assembly methods through defined communities.

  PMID 36576131 · PMC9795473 · GigaScience · 2022 · 8 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 86

  LMAS (Last Metagenomic Assembler Standing) is a flexible, Nextflow-based, Docker-containerized automated workflow for benchmarking de novo metagenomic assemblers against defined mock communities, producing an interactive HTML report.

  zymobiomics assembled assembler-generated novo reference-based contig

• Inverse symmetry in complete genomes and whole-genome inverse duplication.

  PMID 19898631 · PMC2771390 · PloS one · 2009 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Reverse and complement symmetries are essentially absent in genomic sequences at all scales.

  complete coli individual coding k-mer comparison segmental

• Determining the quality and complexity of next-generation sequencing data without a reference genome.

  PMID 25514851 · PMC4298064 · Genome biology · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 78

  kPAL, an open-source alignment-free package, assesses sequencing data quality and complexity using k-mer frequency profiles and pairwise distances between them, without a reference sequence.

  rna-seq genome wgs exome k-mer rna-seq read

• A high-quality chromosome-level genome assembly of a feather star Glyptometra sp. from a deep seamount.

  PMID 41786724 · PMC13079724 · Scientific data · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  This is the first chromosome-level genome assembly of a feather star (Glyptometra sp. CNS01629) from a deep seamount

  genomic arm middle assembled k-mer whole-genome pacbio

• Fast and systematic genome-wide discovery of conserved regulatory elements using a non-alignment based approach.

  PMID 15693947 · PMC551538 · Genome biology · 2005 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  FastCompare, a non-alignment-based, linear-time algorithm, computes a genome-wide conservation score for all k-mers (7-9 nt) between two genomes to identify conserved regulatory elements

  cerevisiae elegans randomized computational randomized microarray

• A consensus approach to vertebrate de novo transcriptome assembly from RNA-seq data: assembly of the duck (Anas platyrhynchos) transcriptome.

  PMID 25009556 · PMC4070175 · Frontiers in genetics · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  Multiple k-mer (MK) assemblies are more complete than single k-mer (SK) assemblies, showing higher reads-mapped-back-to-transcripts (RMBT) and higher CEGMA complete-gene percentages for all three tools.

  anas duck million random illumina read novo

• TRAPID 2.0: a web application for taxonomic and functional analysis of de novo transcriptomes.

  PMID 34197621 · PMC8464036 · Nucleic acids research · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 60

  TRAPID 2.0 is a web application performing global characterization of de novo transcriptomes via structural, functional, and taxonomic annotation in an initial processing phase, followed by an exploratory phase of downstream analyses.

  mmetsp query putative ciliate taxonomic similarity non-coding

• Multi-context seeds enable fast and high-accuracy read mapping.

  PMID 41764549 · PMC13059148 · Genome biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Multi-context seeds (MCS) allow storage of seeds with different lengths in the same index structure by splitting hash bits among strobes, enabling full and partial matches

  simulated chm13 same sequence seed simulated

• GAVISUNK: genome assembly validation via inter-SUNK distances in Oxford Nanopore reads.

  PMID 36321867 · PMC9805576 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2023 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  GAVISUNK is an open-source pipeline that validates phased diploid HiFi assemblies by assessing concordance of inter-SUNK distances against orthogonal Oxford Nanopore (ONT) reads.

  chm13 chm1 hg02723 genome sunk haplotype

• The chromosome-scale genome assembly, annotation of Bischofia polycarpa (H. Lév.) Airy Shaw, Phyllanthaceae.

  PMID 41765919 · PMC13066037 · Scientific data · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  B. polycarpa genome was assembled de novo using PacBio HiFi reads and Hi-C data to a size of 585.68 Mb with contig N50 of 12.62 Mb

  polycarpa illumina pacbio hi-c

• Cleanifier: contamination removal from microbial sequences using spaced seeds of a human pangenome index.

  PMID 41252442 · PMC12758600 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Cleanifier is a fast, memory-frugal alignment-free tool for detecting and removing human contamination using gapped k-mers (spaced seeds) and a human pangenome index.

  genomes genome cami t2t host-contamination pangenome

• CLAMP: predicting specific protein-mediated chromatin loops in diverse species with a chromatin accessibility language model.

  PMID 41555433 · PMC12903630 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CLAMP, a chromatin-accessibility language model, predicts protein-mediated chromatin loops across 10 species, 18 proteins, and 24 cell types with superior performance versus existing methods.

  species gm12878 types chromatin cross-protein cross-cell-type

• A whole genome duplication drives the genome evolution of Phytophthora betacei, a closely related species to Phytophthora infestans.

  PMID 34740326 · PMC8571832 · BMC genomics · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  P. betacei P8084 has the largest sequenced genome in the Phytophthora genus (270 Mb)

  betacei predicted genome k-mer busco

• The genome and development-dependent transcriptomes of Pyronema confluens: a window into fungal evolution.

  PMID 24068976 · PMC3778014 · PLoS genetics · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The 50 Mb P. confluens genome with 13,369 predicted protein-coding genes is more characteristic of higher filamentous ascomycetes than of the large, repeat-rich Tuber melanosporum genome, showing that the truffle's expanded genome is not typical of the Pezizales.

  pyronema confluens fungal whole-genome k-mer rna-seq

• First genome assemblies of Neotropical Thoracobombus bumblebees Bombus pauloensis and Bombus pullatus.

  PMID 41436027 · PMC12958814 · G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  This study produced the first genome assemblies of Neotropical Bombus (Thoracobombus) species, B. pauloensis and B. pullatus

  pauloensis masked long-read k-mer novo

• The third international hackathon for applying insights into large-scale genomic composition to use cases in a wide range of organisms.

  PMID 36262335 · PMC9557141 · F1000Research · 2022 · 7 claims · 3 setups

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  The third BCM & DNAnexus hackathon produced nine software projects for SV analysis, of which eight are presented in this paper.

  long-read re-sequenced genomic long-read k-mer read-based

• Plasmid transmission dynamics and evolution of partner quality in a natural population of Rhizobium leguminosarum.

  PMID 41212030 · PMC12691615 · mBio · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Plasmid types II and III have more stable size, larger core genomes, and phylogenies that track the chromosome, indicating predominantly vertical transmission

  rhizobium extrachromosomal plasmidome gse long-read k-mer genome

• Prospects of telomere-to-telomere assembly in barley: Analysis of sequence gaps in the MorexV3 reference genome.

  PMID 35338551 · PMC9241371 · Plant biotechnology journal · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 71

  Almost all centromeric sequences and 45S ribosomal DNA repeat arrays are absent from the MorexV3 pseudomolecules

  barley optical chip-seq k-mer