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).

• Multiple whole genome alignments and novel biomedical applications at the VISTA portal.

  PMID 17488840 · PMC1933192 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  A novel multiple whole-genome alignment algorithm treats all genomes symmetrically, avoiding dependence on a single base/reference genome

  genome vertebrate multi-species whole-genome conservation non-synonymous

• Reconstructing the evolution of the mitochondrial ribosomal proteome.

  PMID 17604309 · PMC1950548 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The ancestral mitoribosome was of alpha-proteobacterial descent and more than doubled its protein content in most eukaryotic lineages.

  proteomes eukaryotic aligned alignments iterative hmm-based neighbor-joining

• Empirical codon substitution matrix.

  PMID 15927081 · PMC1173088 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  The authors present the first empirical codon substitution matrix built entirely from alignments of vertebrate coding DNA sequences.

  orthologous million codon same pairwise empirical comparative

• Genomic divergences among cattle, dog and human estimated from large-scale alignments of genomic sequences.

  PMID 16759380 · PMC1525190 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Overall pairwise genomic divergences among cattle, dog and human are relatively constant (0.32–0.37 change/site)

  orthologous random cattle aligned three-way pairwise bac

• Reference based annotation with GeneMapper.

  PMID 16600017 · PMC1557983 · Genome biology · 2006 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  GeneMapper transfers reference gene annotations to target genomes with higher accuracy than GeneWise and Projector

  orthologous human-mouse chicken encode reference-based multi-species reciprocal

• The other side of comparative genomics: genes with no orthologs between the cow and other mammalian species.

  PMID 20003425 · PMC2808326 · BMC genomics · 2009 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  3,801 bovine genes have no orthologs in human, mouse and dog, and 1,010 human genes have no orthologs in cow despite having orthologs in mouse and dog

  bovine cow coding blast-based ensembl gene

• Genome-wide survey for biologically functional pseudogenes.

  PMID 16680195 · PMC1456316 · PLoS computational biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A subset of ancient, cross-species-conserved pseudogenes (30 of 1,453 candidate quartets) show evidence consistent with retained biological function

  human-mouse chimpanzee cross-species maximum-likelihood synteny

• How accurately is ncRNA aligned within whole-genome multiple alignments?

  PMID 17963514 · PMC2206062 · BMC bioinformatics · 2007 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  MULTIZ does a fairly accurate job of aligning ncRNA regions across 17 vertebrate genomes, but better alignments exist in some regions.

  genome vertebrate nonhuman genomic sequence whole-genome covariance

• AUGUSTUS at EGASP: using EST, protein and genomic alignments for improved gene prediction in the human genome.

  PMID 16925833 · PMC1810548 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  AUGUSTUS predicted significantly more genes correctly than any other ab initio program in EGASP

  genome human-mouse genes initio comparative extrinsic

• Improving the specificity of exon prediction using comparative genomics.

  PMID 18831778 · PMC2559877 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A log-odds ratio scoring method based on codon conservation across human-mouse/human-dog alignments and adjacent-codon dependency can classify putative exons as coding vs non-coding.

  human-mouse human-dog genome simulated comparative single-genome simulated

• A target enrichment method for gathering phylogenetic information from hundreds of loci: An example from the Compositae.

  PMID 25202605 · PMC4103609 · Applications in plant sciences · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A custom sequence capture probe set (9678 baits targeting 1061 orthologous genes) was designed to enrich COS loci across the Compositae.

  compositae same species helianthus targeted genome genomic

• Getting positive about selection.

  PMID 12914654 · PMC193638 · Genome biology · 2003 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Purifying selection is the predominant form of molecular evolution, preserving fitness by eliminating deleterious mutations, while positive selection is rare but critical for adaptation.

  genome chimpanzee human-chimpanzee humans whole-genome ratio maximum-likelihood

• Heterotachy in mammalian promoter evolution.

  PMID 16683025 · PMC1449885 · PLoS genetics · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  The rate of promoter evolution relative to control sequences is not consistent between or within mammalian lineages over time (heterotachy)

  promoter ancient chimpanzee comparative ancient micro-indel

• Exonic remnants of whole-genome duplication reveal cis-regulatory function of coding exons.

  PMID 19969543 · PMC2831330 · Nucleic acids research · 2010 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  38 candidate cis-regulatory coding exons (RCEs) with predicted target genes were identified genome-wide

  hg18 zebrafish bystander human-mouse comparative synteny orthologous

• Narcisse: a mirror view of conserved syntenies.

  PMID 17981845 · PMC2238891 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Narcisse is a database/web tool providing an integrated, multi-level comparative analysis of sequence similarities and conserved chromosomal segments (syntenies) across animal, plant, fungal and bacterial completely sequenced genomes.

  annotated genome pairwise pairs sequence nucleic-level conserved

• Uprobe 2008: an online resource for universal overgo hybridization-based probe retrieval and design.

  PMID 18515352 · PMC2447791 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Uprobe provides new predesigned whole-genome universal overgo probe sets for screening marsupial, rodent, and carnivore BAC libraries.

  wallaby squirrel deer clouded overgo bac comparative

• Catalogues of mammalian long noncoding RNAs: modest conservation and incompleteness.

  PMID 19895688 · PMC3091318 · Genome biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MacroRNA and lincRNA exons are subject to the same relatively low degree of sequence constraint, contrary to prior reports that lincRNAs are far more conserved

  macrorna sequence comparative mouse-human population

• Evola: Ortholog database of all human genes in H-InvDB with manual curation of phylogenetic trees.

  PMID 17982176 · PMC2238928 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  Evola combines genome synteny-based computational ortholog detection with manual curation of phylogenetic trees by experts to yield more reliable orthologs than automated pairwise methods

  genome h-invdb gene sets genome transcript-to-genome coding

• Exhaustive prediction of disease susceptibility to coding base changes in the human genome.

  PMID 18793467 · PMC2537574 · BMC bioinformatics · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Inter-species conservation is the strongest single predictor of disease-associated coding mutations among the factors tested.

  hgmd refseq aligned svm svm reciprocal inter-species

• Comparative analysis reveals signatures of differentiation amid genomic polymorphism in Lake Malawi cichlids.

  PMID 18616806 · PMC2530870 · Genome biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Lake Malawi cichlids are phenotypically and behaviorally diverse but appear genetically like a single subdivided population rather than distinct species

  five cichlid pairwise lake low-coverage blastx multi-species