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).

• Positive natural selection in the evolution of human metapneumovirus attachment glycoprotein.

  PMID 17931731 · PMC7114232 · Virus research · 2008 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  8 amino acid sites in the extracellular domain of hMPV lineage 1a show a higher rate of nonsynonymous than synonymous substitutions (posterior probability >0.95), indicating positive selection.

  unique hmpv sequence neighbor-joining codon

• "Reverse ecology" and the power of population genomics.

  PMID 18752601 · PMC2626434 · Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Population genomic data can be used to rapidly identify genes targeted by adaptive natural selection, an approach termed 'reverse ecology'.

  cerevisiae melanogaster sapiens simulans likelihood mcdonald-kreitman mkprf

• Adaptation to different human populations by HIV-1 revealed by codon-based analyses.

  PMID 16789820 · PMC1480537 · PLoS computational biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Developed two fixed effects maximum likelihood methods: one to detect selection that persists in a population (internal vs. terminal branches) and one to detect differential selection on codons between two populations.

  hiv-1 four simulated population-based maximum bayesian

• Evidence for positive selection in putative virulence factors within the Paracoccidioides brasiliensis species complex.

  PMID 18820744 · PMC2553485 · PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Positive selection has played an important role in the molecular evolution of putative virulence factors of P. brasiliensis

  brasiliensis gp43 ratio codon-based mutational

• The UCSC Genome Browser Database: update 2009.

  PMID 18996895 · PMC2686463 · Nucleic acids research · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The UCSC Genome Browser Database (GBD) is a publicly available, integrated collection of genome assembly sequences and annotations across many organisms, including extensive comparative-genomic resources.

  chimp vertebrate mrnas genome genome-wide multiz blat

• Geographically Distinct Circulation of Genotype II and III St. Louis Encephalitis Virus, Texas, USA, 2009-2024.

  PMID 41986946 · PMC13094854 · Emerging infectious diseases · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Genotype II and genotype III SLEV circulated concurrently in Texas during 2009–2024 but were geographically segregated, with no county having both.

  slev-positive vero extracted slev tiled-amplicon virus real-time

• Human PAML browser: a database of positive selection on human genes using phylogenetic methods.

  PMID 17962310 · PMC2238824 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  The Human PAML Browser is a web-accessible database of codeml-based positive selection test results for 13,721 human genes with orthologs in UCSC multispecies alignments.

  same genes orangutan codeml gene sequence

• The genomic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineages collected during routine sentinel surveillance in Tanzania between November 2022 and July 2023.

  PMID 41688918 · PMC13011721 · BMC genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Seven Omicron Nextstrain clades were identified among Tanzanian sequences, with clades 22F (XBB*) and 22E (BQ.1) predominant, comprising 56.3% and 21.35% of samples respectively

  nasal sars-cov-2-positive multiplexed tanzanian rt-qpcr whole-genome bioinformatic

• Epidemiology and phylogenomic characterization of the Clade IIb C.1 Mpox outbreak in Phnom Penh, Cambodia (2023-2024).

  PMID 41575511 · PMC12978180 · Emerging microbes & infections · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  All Cambodian Mpox genomes belong to lineage C.1, nested within Clade IIb

  skin mpxv-positive raw cambodian real-time viral bioinformatic

• Ancient adaptive evolution of the primate antiviral DNA-editing enzyme APOBEC3G.

  PMID 15269786 · PMC479043 · PLoS biology · 2004 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  APOBEC3G has been under strong, recurrent positive selection throughout primate evolution (~33 million years)

  apobec3g pairwise human-chimpanzee apobec1 pcr phylogenetic sliding

• Adaptive history of single copy genes highly expressed in the term human placenta.

  PMID 18848617 · PMC2759754 · Genomics · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  222 single copy eutherian genes are highly expressed (>=3x median) in the term human placenta

  term single same lists microarray comparative site

• Direct evidence of extensive diversity of HIV-1 in Kinshasa by 1960.

  PMID 18833279 · PMC3682493 · Nature · 2008 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Recovered and characterized HIV-1 sequences (DRC60) from a 1960 Bouin's-fixed paraffin-embedded lymph node biopsy from Léopoldville, Belgian Congo

  archival hiv-1-positive cdna concatenated rt-pcr quantitative pcr

• Segmented filamentous bacteria are worldwide human gut commensals.

  PMID 41786702 · PMC13153320 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Identification and morphological/genomic characterization of a novel human SFB species, Anisomitus miae (Human-SFB-ML), from Malian/Gambian/Kenyan fecal samples, displaying SFB-specific morphology including the attachment tip structure

  fecal sfb human-sfb-ml publicly pacbio maximum gram

• Clustering of phosphorylation site recognition motifs can be exploited to predict the targets of cyclin-dependent kinase.

  PMID 17316440 · PMC1852407 · Genome biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  CDK consensus motifs are frequently clustered (closely spaced) in known CDK substrate proteins rather than uniformly distributed

  cerevisiae cycle reanalysis statistical optimal

• Evolutionary modeling of rate shifts reveals specificity determinants in HIV-1 subtypes.

  PMID 18989394 · PMC2566816 · PLoS computational biology · 2008 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  A novel Bayesian method, RASER, can detect site-specific evolutionary rate shifts and the lineages in which they occurred without pre-specifying candidate lineages.

  hiv-1 simulated bayesian simulation structural

• The role of the humoral immune response in the molecular evolution of the envelope C2, V3 and C3 regions in chronically HIV-2 infected patients.

  PMID 18778482 · PMC2563025 · Retrovirology · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Intra-host nucleotide diversity of the HIV-2 C2V3C3 region increases over the course of chronic infection in most patients

  pbmcs clonal env deduced nested maximum-likelihood positive

• Evolutionary dynamics of human rotaviruses: balancing reassortment with preferred genome constellations.

  PMID 19851457 · PMC2760143 · PLoS pathogens · 2009 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Genetically distinct RV clades of the same G/P-type (G3P[8]) can co-circulate within a single epidemic season and cause disease

  g3p[8] rv-positive concatenated deduced rt-pcr pcr-elisa phylogenetic

• Species-Wide Phylogenomics of the Staphylococcus aureus Agr Operon Revealed Convergent Evolution of Frameshift Mutations.

  PMID 35044202 · PMC8768832 · Microbiology spectrum · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  AgrVATE, a novel kmer-based BLASTn and in silico PCR/Snippy pipeline, enables fast, standardized agr group typing and frameshift/null mutation detection from genome assemblies

  aureus complete extracted agr kmer-based sheep mash

• QuantiSNP: an Objective Bayes Hidden-Markov Model to detect and accurately map copy number variation using SNP genotyping data.

  PMID 17341461 · PMC1874617 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  QuantiSNP (OB-HMM) provides probabilistic quantification of copy number states and significantly improves accuracy of segmental aneuploidy identification and breakpoint mapping relative to existing tools (BeadStudio/Illumina)

  genomic same pseudo-normal artificially snp fish molecular

• Bayesian survival analysis in genetic association studies.

  PMID 18617538 · PMC2530885 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2008 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  A novel Bayesian method (BETA-Surv) extends prior case-control haplotype-clustering work to censored survival outcomes by clustering haplotypes via gene tree/perfect phylogeny topology and relative mutation age.

  simulated same sanad bayesian univariate partial