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).

• Mutually exclusive teams-like patterns of gene regulation characterize phenotypic heterogeneity along the noradrenergic-mesenchymal axis in neuroblastoma.

  PMID 38230570 · PMC10795782 · Cancer biology & therapy · 2024 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 87

  NOR-specific and MES-specific gene expression patterns are largely mutually exclusive, exhibiting a teams-like behavior across multiple bulk NB transcriptomic datasets

  lines bulk single-cell housekeeping bulk pca single-sample

• Macrophages on the run: Exercise balances macrophage polarization for improved health.

  PMID 39476967 · PMC11585839 · Molecular metabolism · 2024 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 81

  Immediate/acute exercise triggers an M1 (pro-inflammatory) macrophage polarization surge.

  gene affymetrix pooled muscle meta-analysis stepminer gene

• SMAGEXP: a galaxy tool suite for transcriptomics data meta-analysis.

  PMID 30698691 · PMC6354025 · GigaScience · 2019 · 8 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 82

  SMAGEXP integrates the metaMA and metaRNASeq R packages into Galaxy to provide a unified tool suite for transcriptomics meta-analysis.

  oral geo lung gene affymetrix limma

• Creation of a Single Cell RNASeq Meta-Atlas to Define Human Liver Immune Homeostasis.

  PMID 34335581 · PMC8322955 · Frontiers in immunology · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 63

  Independent human liver immune scRNA-seq datasets can be combined into an integrated meta-atlas in which all datasets co-cluster, despite differing cell-type proportions between studies.

  liver combined normal differential scrna-seq integrated reference

• Integrating transcriptomic datasets across neurological disease identifies unique myeloid subpopulations driving disease-specific signatures.

  PMID 36527260 · PMC10952672 · Glia · 2023 · 6 claims · 3 setups

  Has reproduction · 26

  The bulk microglial and monocyte transcriptomic program is highly contingent on the disease environment, challenging the notion of a universal microglial disease signature

  acutely microglia c57bl meta-analysis integration spectral

• Transcriptomic profiling of skeletal muscle adaptations to exercise and inactivity.

  PMID 31980607 · PMC6981202 · Nature communications · 2020 · 6 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 52

  A meta-analysis (MetaMEx) of 66 published human skeletal muscle datasets reveals pathways selectively activated by inactivity, aerobic versus resistance, and acute versus chronic exercise training.

  skeletal healthy transcriptomic qpcr metabolic

• COVID-19 lung disease shares driver AT2 cytopathic features with Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

  PMID 35870428 · PMC9297827 · EBioMedicine · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  COVID-19 lung disease resembles IPF at a fundamental level, recapitulating ViP/IPF gene expression patterns, an IL15-centric cytokine storm, and AT2 cytopathic changes (injury, DNA damage, transient progenitor-state arrest, senescence/SASP).

  lung covid-19 interaction pre-clinical composite single-cell kaplan-meier

• Transcriptomic Data Meta-Analysis Sheds Light on High Light Response in Arabidopsis thaliana L.

  PMID 35457273 · PMC9026532 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2022 · 7 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 88

  Meta-analysis of five transcriptomic experiments identified 1151 differentially expressed genes that compose a coordinated gene network responding to high light stress

  arabidopsis deg promoter selected meta-analysis transcription hexamer

• Exploring Gene Expression Patterns in Alzheimer's Disease Using a Human Microarray Data Meta-Analysis.

  PMID 41744654 · PMC12938635 · Biology · 2026 · 6 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 100

  AD brains show a distinct transcriptomic profile with up-regulation of immune/inflammation genes and down-regulation of synapse/neuronal-signaling genes

  brain sub-studies down-regulated affymetrix quality normalization

• Deconvoluting the 'omics' for organ transplantation.

  PMID 19644370 · PMC2993238 · Current opinion in organ transplantation · 2009 · 8 claims · 5 setups

  Full-text index only

  High-throughput 'omic' technologies (genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, antibiomics) can uncover novel biomarkers for acute rejection, chronic rejection, and operational tolerance without a priori pathway bias

  kidney sera peripheral microarray non-parametric antibiomics

• Severe COVID-19 Shares a Common Neutrophil Activation Signature with Other Acute Inflammatory States.

  PMID 35269470 · PMC8909161 · Cells · 2022 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 88

  COVID-19 and HLH share immunological pathways, yielding 237 common up-regulated DEGs dominated by cytokine/chemokine signaling and neutrophil-mediated immune responses.

  peripheral leukocytes plasma degs bulk single-cell plasma

• CoINcIDE: A framework for discovery of patient subtypes across multiple datasets.

  PMID 26961683 · PMC4784276 · Genome medicine · 2016 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 87

  CoINcIDE is a methodological framework that discovers replicable patient subtypes (meta-clusters) across multiple datasets by finding consensus across dataset-specific clusterings, requiring no between-dataset transformations.

  breast ovarian simulated gene semi-supervised novo

• Systematic identification of ACE2 expression modulators reveals cardiomyopathy as a risk factor for mortality in COVID-19 patients.

  PMID 35012625 · PMC8743438 · Genome biology · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 68

  GENEVA is a semi-automated, study-design-agnostic framework that mines large-scale public RNA-seq data to identify conditions modulating a gene of interest's expression

  gtex lncap heart breast bulk rna-seq meta-analysis

• A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Chronic Stress on the Prefrontal Transcriptome in Animal Models and Convergence With Existing Human Data.

  PMID 41566898 · PMC12824456 · Brain and behavior · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 64

  Chronic stress induces a robust, cross-paradigm PFC transcriptional signature characterized by downregulation of glia/myelin and vascular pathways and suppression of immediate-early gene activity

  c57 c57bl post-weaning pfc microarray rna-seq random

• Increased prevalence of hybrid epithelial/mesenchymal state and enhanced phenotypic heterogeneity in basal breast cancer.

  PMID 38974967 · PMC11225361 · iScience · 2024 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 95

  Luminal breast cancer gene expression signature is closely/positively associated with an epithelial signature

  breast-cancer-specific tcga ccle four single-sample survival genome-wide

• Meta-analysis of inter-species liver co-expression networks elucidates traits associated with common human diseases.

  PMID 20019805 · PMC2787626 · PLoS computational biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Full-text index only

  A novel semi-parametric meta-analysis method (based on a gene-centric Glass's d effect size) outperforms existing parametric and non-parametric meta-analysis methods at identifying functionally coherent gene pairs across species.

  liver simulated conserved nearly gene simulation kolmogorov-smirnov

• Meta-analysis of six dairy cattle breeds reveals biologically relevant candidate genes for mastitis resistance.

  PMID 39009986 · PMC11247842 · Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE · 2024 · 6 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 69

  Meta-analysis of GWAS across multiple breeds for CM and SCS identified 58 lead markers associated with mastitis incidence, including 16 loci not overlapping previously identified QTL in AnimalQTLdb.

  six multi-breed per-breed bovine genome-wide single-trait trans-ethnic

• Decoding and reconstructing disease relations between dry eye and depression: a multimodal investigation comprising meta-analysis, genetic pathways and Mendelian randomization.

  PMID 38548265 · PMC11954816 · Journal of advanced research · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 79

  Meta-analysis confirms a positive bidirectional association between DED and DEP (DED patients have increased DEP prevalence and vice versa).

  studies taiwan twb ded meta-analysis genome-wide conditional

• Integrated Analysis of Multiple Microarrays Based on Raw Data Identified Novel Gene Signatures in Recurrent Implantation Failure.

  PMID 35197930 · PMC8859149 · Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022 · 6 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  Robust Rank Aggregation (RRA) can integrate DEG lists from multiple independent RIF microarray datasets to identify robust DEGs.

  endometrium integrated robust ppi microarray robust gene

• Integrative network modeling reveals mechanisms underlying T cell exhaustion.

  PMID 32024856 · PMC7002445 · Scientific reports · 2020 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 59

  An integrative, literature-curated and data-driven gene regulatory network underlies CD8+ T cell exhaustion and accurately captures expression states in chronic infection and tumor settings.

  cd8+ tce activated manual gene principal