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).

• Ultraconserved coding regions outside the homeobox of mammalian Hox genes.

  PMID 18816392 · PMC2566984 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Ultraconserved coding regions (UCRs, ≥120 nt with no synonymous or nonsynonymous substitutions) exist outside the homeobox in mammalian Hox genes

  orthologous hox concatenated intronic sliding comparative molecular

• Ab initio identification of putative human transcription factor binding sites by comparative genomics.

  PMID 15865625 · PMC1097714 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  An integrated algorithm combining human-mouse genomic comparison, motif overrepresentation, and coregulation filters (GO annotation and microarray coexpression) can identify candidate transcription factor binding sites genome-wide

  human-mouse conserved gene consensus comparative statistical gene

• Comparative genomics comes of age.

  PMID 12186641 · PMC139393 · Genome biology · 2002 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Only about 50% of conserved sequence elements (exons+introns) in orthologous human-mouse genes correspond to exons, implying substantial non-exonic conservation

  orthologous chromosome chimpanzee somatic-cell comparative targeted tiled

• 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

• 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

• SVC: structured visualization of evolutionary sequence conservation.

  PMID 15991338 · PMC1160265 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  SVC aligns protein-coding sequences of orthologous gene pairs and maps them back onto their encoding exons/introns to generate a scaffold of conserved gene structure.

  orthologous exonic tblastx blastn sliding-window

• 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

• Evolution of motif variants and positional bias of the cyclic-AMP response element.

  PMID 17288573 · PMC1796609 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Canonical CRE positional bias toward the -1 to -150 bp TSS region is present in vertebrates (human, mouse, rat, chicken, frog, zebrafish) but absent in sea squirt, fruit fly and worm.

  tss-spanning cres genome known genome-wide comparative cpg

• Genome informatics: taming the avalanche of genomic data.

  PMID 15642109 · PMC549058 · Genome biology · 2005 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Ultraconserved regions (>100 bp, 100% conserved among mammals) exist in the genome and their function remains unknown

  genes arabidopsis genome vertebrate comparative conservation whole-genome

• On the association between chromosomal rearrangements and genic evolution in humans and chimpanzees.

  PMID 17971225 · PMC2246304 · Genome biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Genes located in rearranged chromosomes show lower non-coding (KI), synonymous (KS), and non-synonymous (KA) divergence than genes in colinear chromosomes.

  human-chimpanzee orthologous genome-wide pairwise lineage-specific permutation

• Reverse polarization in amino acid and nucleotide substitution patterns between human-mouse orthologs of two compositional extrema.

  PMID 17895298 · PMC2533592 · DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes · 2007 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Nucleotide and amino acid substitution trends between human-mouse orthologs are highly asymmetric and polarized in opposite directions for high-GC versus low-GC gene groups.

  human-mouse high aarm orthologous content pairwise

• Designating eukaryotic orthology via processed transcription units.

  PMID 18445630 · PMC2425467 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Existing ortholog databases discard/ignore alternative splicing via all-against-all protein comparisons, causing ambiguous ortholog calls and misclassification of AS isoforms as in-paralogs

  ortholog blat exon-intron blast-based

• The truth about mouse, human, worms and yeast.

  PMID 15601543 · PMC3525071 · Human genomics · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Comparing genomes in pairs or larger sets (mouse-human, C. elegans-C. briggsae, multiple Saccharomyces, human-pufferfish, etc.) reveals unsuspected genes and helps eliminate false-positive gene predictions

  mouse-human homo tetraodon region comparative est cross-species

• Comparative genomics of vertebrate Fox cluster loci.

  PMID 17062144 · PMC1634998 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  Two additional human paralogous Fox cluster regions exist, on chromosomes 14 and 20, beyond the previously known chromosome 6 and 16 loci

  chimp sequences genomic blast molecular comparative

• Discovery and hypothesis generation through bioinformatics.

  PMID 16522224 · PMC1431734 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Bioinformatics should be used as a tool for discovery and hypothesis generation, not merely to manage biological data

  genome chemokine gene-expression proteins genome-wide phylogenetic microarray

• G-compass: a web-based comparative genome browser between human and other vertebrate genomes.

  PMID 19846439 · PMC2788932 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2009 · 7 claims · 2 setups

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  G-compass is a web-based tool that displays two corresponding genomic regions from human and another vertebrate species simultaneously in parallel, without requiring client installation.

  genome hg18 blastz comparison

• Systematic analysis of human kinase genes: a large number of genes and alternative splicing events result in functional and structural diversity.

  PMID 16351747 · PMC1866387 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Systematic in silico search identified 5 novel human kinase genes (on chromosomes 1, 11, 13, 15, 16) and 1 pseudogene (chromosome X) absent from KinBase

  genome genomic kinase psi-blast comparative genscan

• 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

• 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

• Organismal complexity, cell differentiation and gene expression: human over mouse.

  PMID 17881362 · PMC2095826 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Human shows a greater fraction of tissue-specific genes and a greater ratio of total expression of tissue-specific to housekeeping genes than mouse across 32 homologous tissues

  human-mouse oligonucleotide exon comparative