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).

• Systematic benchmarking of tools for CpG methylation detection from nanopore sequencing.

  PMID 34103501 · PMC8187371 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Existing Nanopore methylation detection tools present a tradeoff between false positives and false negatives and show high dispersion relative to expected methylation frequency values.

  coli individual lymphoblastoid na12878 nanopore per-read consensus

• Virus variant quantification with Orthanq.

  PMID 41639627 · PMC12930645 · BMC bioinformatics · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Orthanq performs identification and uncertainty-aware quantification of known virus variants of any virus species, including in samples with mixed infections

  simulated real mixture sequencing sequencing-based pangenome variant

• Back to basics.

  PMID 12186643 · PMC139395 · Genome biology · 2002 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Human PDS (Pendrin) gene mutations damage ear structures and are linked to hereditary deafness and goiter

  chromosome pendrin yeast carbonic genome gene mudpit

• "Sequencing-grade" screening for BRCA1 variants by oligo-arrays.

  PMID 18973698 · PMC2583995 · Journal of translational medicine · 2008 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  An oligo-array platform can detect BRCA1 SNPs, insertions, and deletions of known and unknown variants, including in heterozygous conditions, with accuracy comparable to direct sequencing

  genomic pcr mcf-10a brca1 oligo-nucleotide direct pcr

• nf-core/viralmetagenome: A novel pipeline for untargeted viral genome reconstruction.

  PMID 42057295 · PMC13141149 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  nf-core/viralmetagenome is a Nextflow pipeline that automates untargeted reconstruction and variant analysis of eukaryotic DNA and RNA viruses from short-read metagenomic or hybridisation-capture data.

  real simulated seven pipeline metagenomic simulated clinical

• Biodefense versus bioterrorism.

  PMID 18771576 · PMC2575524 · Genome biology · 2008 · 5 claims · 4 setups

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  Whole-genome sequencing and comparative genomics of the attack strain were used to trace the anthrax letters to a specific laboratory flask

  bacillus ancestral cultures anthrax whole-genome comparative colony

• DNA methylation analysis by digital bisulfite genomic sequencing and digital MethyLight.

  PMID 18628296 · PMC2504308 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Digital PCR compartmentalizes individual bisulfite-converted DNA template molecules into separate wells, enabling single-molecule DNA methylation analysis

  fresh-frozen same sssi-methylated mixture digital conventional classic

• Preferential access to genetic information from endogenous hominin ancient DNA and accurate quantitative SNP-typing via SPEX.

  PMID 19864251 · PMC2811011 · Nucleic acids research · 2010 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  SPEX-type approaches preferentially access genetic information from damaged, degraded endogenous ancient DNA templates over modern human contaminant DNA

  iceman hb50 pe168 lq4 relative pcr spex

• Cancer genome standards for long-read sequencing using cancer cell line mixtures.

  PMID 41934171 · PMC13137868 · GigaScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Long-read variant calling tools achieve recall rates comparable to short-read gold standards

  colo829 same whole-genome short-read 5mc

• Duplex-Indel: a Snakemake pipeline for somatic Indel calling in Tn5 transposase-based duplex sequencing data.

  PMID 42046229 · PMC13171174 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Duplex-Indel is a Snakemake pipeline for somatic Indel calling from Tn5 transposase-based duplex sequencing data that requires consensus support from both DNA strands to minimize technical artifacts.

  colo829-t colo829-bl colo829-blt duplex tn5 bulk cosine

• Cell fixation and preservation for droplet-based single-cell transcriptomics.

  PMID 28526029 · PMC5438562 · BMC biology · 2017 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Methanol fixation stabilizes and preserves dissociated cells for weeks without compromising single-cell RNA-seq data quality

  hek293 dissociated facs-sorted hek drop-seq bulk trizol

• 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

• Optimizing data-driven excellence: Canada's approach to using pathogen test datasets for quality control, pipeline development and training initiatives.

  PMID 41591806 · PMC12847982 · Microbial genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Standardized SARS-CoV-2 test datasets (Illumina and Nanopore) were developed as benchmarks for validating sequencing/bioinformatics pipelines across Canadian public health labs

  sars-cov-2 extracted nasopharyngeal bioinformatic whole-genome triplex extraction

• Integration of bioinformatic tools for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 co-infection cases.

  PMID 41609640 · PMC12856159 · Microbial genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Sample PH-RITM-1395 represents a Delta–Omicron co-infection, confirmed by convergent evidence from Nextclade, bammix, Freyja, VirStrain, AAF analysis and amplicon sorting rather than contamination

  consensus aligned raw bam nextclade nucleotide strain-level

• A high-throughput method for quantifying alleles and haplotypes of the malaria vaccine candidate Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein-1 19 kDa.

  PMID 16626494 · PMC1459863 · Malaria journal · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Pyrosequencing, after adjustment to a standard curve, provides accurate and precise estimates of allele frequencies in mixed MSP-1_19 infections

  falciparum cloned pyrosequencing pcr

• Minisequencing mitochondrial DNA pathogenic mutations.

  PMID 18402672 · PMC2377236 · BMC medical genetics · 2008 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  A minisequencing multiplex assay can interrogate 25 pathogenic mtDNA mutations across the whole mtDNA genome in a single reaction using 13 amplicons.

  blood-derived same genomic pcr minisequencing automatic multiplex

• Accurate detection of somatic single-nucleotide variants from bulk RNA-seq data using RNA-MosaicHunter.

  PMID 41505106 · PMC12781890 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  RNA-MosaicHunter accurately detects sSNVs from bulk RNA-seq with high precision (94.7% in TCGA, 99.3% in cell-line mixture) in default mode

  tcga cell-line same gtex bulk whole-exome whole-genome

• A method for selectively enriching microbial DNA from contaminating vertebrate host DNA.

  PMID 24204593 · PMC3810253 · PloS one · 2013 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  MBD-Fc bound to Protein A paramagnetic beads selectively binds methylated (vertebrate host) DNA, depleting it from mixed samples

  3h-labeled imr-90 lambda saliva scintillation genome restriction

• Detection of rare mutant K-ras DNA in a single-tube reaction using peptide nucleic acid as both PCR clamp and sensor probe.

  PMID 16432256 · PMC1345699 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  A 17mer PNA spanning K-ras codons 12/13 can serve as both PCR clamp and sensor probe in a single-tube reaction, differentiating all 12 possible point mutations from wild-type by melting temperature shift

  wild-type mixture mutant serial melting real-time limit-of-detection

• Editing of hnRNP K protein mRNA in colorectal adenocarcinoma and surrounding mucosa.

  PMID 16404425 · PMC2361188 · British journal of cancer · 2006 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A G274A base substitution in hnRNP K mRNA is present in colorectal tumours and surrounding mucosa but absent from corresponding genomic DNA, indicating an RNA editing event rather than a germline polymorphism.

  colorectal cdna matched thyroid rt-pcr restriction genomic