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).

• Metatranscriptomics of the human oral microbiome during health and disease.

  PMID 24692635 · PMC3977359 · mBio · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Disease-associated periodontal communities display conserved community-level metabolic gene expression profiles between patients, whereas the metabolic gene expression of individual species is highly variable between patients.

  patient-matched subset health rna-seq rrna comparison metatranscriptomics

• MEDUSA: A Pipeline for Sensitive Taxonomic Classification and Flexible Functional Annotation of Metagenomic Shotgun Sequences.

  PMID 35330728 · PMC8940201 · Frontiers in genetics · 2022 · 7 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 50

  MEDUSA correctly identifies more species than MEGAN 6 CE, especially less abundant species.

  bovine simulated cami datasets read host-sequence metagenome

• StrainMake: reproducible hybrid metagenomics with MAG recovery and strain-level resolution.

  PMID 42097292 · PMC13188985 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  StrainMake is a Snakemake-based, Conda-managed workflow for de novo metagenomic analysis from short, long, or hybrid sequencing data.

  cami high-quality recovered gut metagenome metagenomic mag

• Metagenomic analysis of respiratory tract DNA viral communities in cystic fibrosis and non-cystic fibrosis individuals.

  PMID 19816605 · PMC2756586 · PloS one · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CF phage communities are highly similar to each other, whereas Non-CF individuals have more distinct, variable phage communities reflecting transient environmental sampling

  sputum phage metagenomes inferred metagenomic functional diversity

• Large-scale estimation of bacterial and archaeal DNA prevalence in metagenomes reveals biome-specific patterns.

  PMID 41854267 · PMC13098197 · mSystems · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  SPF scalably and robustly estimates the fraction of bacterial and archaeal reads in a metagenome using detection of prokaryotic single-copy marker genes, without requiring eukaryotic or viral reference genomes

  zymo cami simulated fecal simulated shotgun spf

• Dental Plaque Microbial Resistomes of Periodontal Health and Disease and Their Changes after Scaling and Root Planing Therapy.

  PMID 34287005 · PMC8386447 · mSphere · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Periodontitis significantly alters dental plaque microbial community diversity and structure compared to healthy and treated states

  dental metagenomic taxonomic arg

• Horizontal transmission enables flexible associations with locally adapted symbiont strains in deep-sea hydrothermal vent symbioses.

  PMID 35349333 · PMC9168483 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Host populations of Alviniconcha and Ifremeria are not genetically differentiated across an ~800-km geographic gradient

  gill chemosynthetic host epsilon rna-seq-based metagenomic phylogenomic

• Metagenomic Comparison of Bat Colony Resistomes Across Anthropogenic and Pristine Habitats.

  PMID 41594088 · PMC12838372 · Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Anthropogenic exposure enhances the diversity and evenness of resistance mechanisms within bat-associated microbiomes, increasing their potential as AMR reservoirs.

  bat mag-derived shotgun metagenome arg

• Taxonomic and functional metagenomic assessment of a Dolichospermum bloom in a large and deep lake south of the Alps.

  PMID 39227168 · PMC11412076 · FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Phylogenomic analysis of the MAG clarified the taxonomic position of D. lemmermannii within the genus Dolichospermum and the ADA (Anabaena/Dolichospermum/Aphanizomenon) group

  surface bloom environmental dolichospermum shotgun lc-ms metagenome

• Comparative Genomics Provides Insight into the Function of Broad-Host Range Sponge Symbionts.

  PMID 34519538 · PMC8546597 · mBio · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Eleven new genomes were added to the Tethybacterales order and a novel family (Polydorabacteraceae) was identified

  tsitsikamma tethybacterales putative bin genome 16s multi-locus

• Elevated phenylacetylglutamine caused by gut dysbiosis associated with type 2 diabetes increases neutrophil extracellular traps formation and exacerbates brain infarction.

  PMID 40471587 · PMC12599254 · Clinical science (London, England : 1979) · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Plasma PAGln levels are significantly higher in ischemic stroke patients with T2D than in those without T2D

  fecal plasma sprague-dawley cerebral 16s metagenome targeted

• Shotgun metagenomic analysis of the oral microbiomes of children with noma.

  PMID 41860897 · PMC13029773 · PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Noma oral microbiomes show marked dysbiosis with significant enrichment of Treponema, Porphyromonas, and Bacteroides, and depletion of Streptococcus and Rothia, compared to healthy controls

  oral saliva noma previously shotgun comparative metagenome

• Taxonomic description of cyanobacteria from extreme habitats through genome-based classification.

  PMID 42131214 · PMC13161053 · Frontiers in microbiology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Cyanobacteria dominate the microbial communities of Hawaiian steam vent habitats, with community composition varying by microhabitat

  environmental steam assembled cyanobacterial 16s metagenome genome

• GAL08, an Uncultivated Group of Acidobacteria, Is a Dominant Bacterial Clade in a Neutral Hot Spring.

  PMID 35087491 · PMC8787282 · Frontiers in microbiology · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  GAL08 is a dominant bacterial clade in Dewar Creek hot spring sediment, comprising up to 29.2% of the microbial community by relative read abundance

  hot 16s gal08 16s qpcr single-cell

• Metapangenomics of wild and cultivated banana microbiome reveals a plethora of host-associated protective functions.

  PMID 37085932 · PMC10120106 · Environmental microbiome · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Root and corm endosphere communities are significantly richer and compositionally distinct from leaf endosphere communities across Musa genotypes

  root musa assembled prokka-annotated shotgun culture-free metagenome

• metaFun: An analysis pipeline for metagenomic big data with fast and unified functional searches.

  PMID 41530917 · PMC12818822 · Gut microbes · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  metaFun is an open-source, end-to-end Nextflow/Apptainer pipeline integrating quality control, taxonomic profiling, functional profiling, de novo assembly, binning, genome assessment, comparative genomics, network analysis, and strain-level microdiversity analysis into a unified framework

  simulated selected gut mags novo binning pangenome-based

• The chromosomal genome sequence of the feather duster worm, Sabellastarte sp. h YS-2021 (Sabellida: Sabellidae) and its associated microbial metagenome sequences.

  PMID 42255362 · PMC13234546 · Wellcome open research · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A chromosomal-level genome assembly was generated for Sabellastarte sp. h YS-2021, with 97.94% of the sequence scaffolded into 14 chromosomal pseudomolecules

  sabellastarte microbial pacbio hi-c rna-seq

• Microbial diversity of plant pathogens and insect endosymbionts in Reptalus artemisiae.

  PMID 41826827 · PMC13202766 · BMC microbiology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  R. artemisiae harbors six prokaryotic taxa: two plant pathogens ('Ca. P. solani' and 'Ca. A. phytopathogenicus') and four insect endosymbionts ('Ca. Vidania', 'Ca. Purcelliella', 'Ca. Karelsulcia', Wolbachia)

  whole-insect individual metagenomic endosymbiont pcr-free its2 taxonomic

• Reconstruction of 2,965 Microbial Genomes from Mangrove Sediments across Guangxi, China.

  PMID 41419779 · PMC12858935 · Scientific data · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A standardized assembly, binning, and dereplication pipeline was used to reconstruct 2,965 non-redundant MAGs from 38 mangrove sediment samples across six sites in Guangxi

  mangrove sediment quality-filtered bacterial whole-genome physicochemical laser

• Dual-platform metagenomic surveillance distinguishes pathogen and resistome hotspots across agricultural and mixed-use watersheds.

  PMID 41890980 · PMC13015239 · One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Agricultural drainage ditches consistently harbor higher fecal-associated bacterial diversity than mixed-use or forested sites, with pronounced seasonal shifts (higher during spring/fall high-flow periods).

  surface shotgun trimmed co-assembled 16s shotgun short-read