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).

• Analyzing biomarker discovery: Estimating the reproducibility of biomarker sets.

  PMID 35901020 · PMC9333302 · PloS one · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Non-reproducibility is a common problem in biomarker discovery: independently derived biomarker sets for the same phenotype frequently share very few features across studies

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• Parsimonious Gene Correlation Network Analysis (PGCNA): a tool to define modular gene co-expression for refined molecular stratification in cancer.

  PMID 30993001 · PMC6459838 · NPJ systems biology and applications · 2019 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Retaining only the top ~3 most correlated edges per gene (EPG3) combined with FastUnfold clustering (termed PGCNA) produces gene co-expression modules with significantly better separation and enrichment of known biology than using all edges or other clustering methods.

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• Mining expressed sequence tags identifies cancer markers of clinical interest.

  PMID 17078886 · PMC1635568 · BMC bioinformatics · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  An EST-mining approach (Fisher Exact Test on tumor vs. non-tumor library hit counts) identifies differentially expressed transcripts with an estimated false discovery rate below 22% when human and mouse screens are combined.

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• Stemming cancer: functional genomics of cancer stem cells in solid tumors.

  PMID 18561035 · PMC2758383 · Stem cell reviews · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cancer stem cells are a minority tumor subpopulation that alone can maintain indefinite tumor growth, as shown by serial transplantation experiments

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• Smart spatial omics (S2-omics) optimizes region of interest selection to capture molecular heterogeneity in diverse tissues.

  PMID 41298871 · PMC12662399 · Nature cell biology · 2025 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  S2-omics is an end-to-end workflow that automatically selects ROIs from H&E histology images to maximize molecular information content for spatial omics profiling.

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• Needles in the haystack: identifying individuals present in pooled genomic data.

  PMID 19798441 · PMC2747273 · PLoS genetics · 2009 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The distribution of T for null samples (individuals not in F or G) deviates strongly from the assumed standard normal, in both location and width.

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• FRMD8 inhibits tumor metastasis in BRCA1-associated TNBC by negatively regulating tmTNF-α.

  PMID 40619383 · PMC12229025 · Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Low FRMD8 expression in BRCA1-mutant breast cancer cells significantly enhances metastatic potential to various organs

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• Using random walks to identify cancer-associated modules in expression data.

  PMID 24128261 · PMC4015830 · BioData mining · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Walktrap-GM, a random-walk community detection algorithm adapted with stopping criteria (maximum modularity, maximum size, maximum module score), identifies modules significantly enriched with cancer genes in expression-weighted interaction networks.

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• The pseudo-mitochondrial genome influences mistakes in heteroplasmy interpretation.

  PMID 16859552 · PMC1538596 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Numts co-amplified with mtDNA during PCR generate false heteroplasmic signals at specific nucleotide positions.

  143b ffpe blood cloned southern pcr rt-pcr

• Short tandem repeats in human exons: a target for disease mutations.

  PMID 18789129 · PMC2543027 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  STRs are present in exons of 92% of known human genes, unlike longer tandem repeats which are rare in exons

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• Extensive androgen receptor enhancer heterogeneity in primary prostate cancers underlies transcriptional diversity and metastatic potential.

  PMID 36450752 · PMC9712620 · Nature communications · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  AR chromatin binding is highly heterogeneous between primary prostate tumors, with <5% of all AR binding sites (ARBS) shared by half of the 88 tumors analyzed

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• 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

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• Sample preparation for serum/plasma profiling and biomarker identification by mass spectrometry.

  PMID 17166507 · PMC7094463 · Journal of chromatography. A · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Standardizing sample preparation procedures for serum/plasma profiling is critical for obtaining reliable biomarkers, since slight procedural changes can produce very different protein profiles.

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• InSite: a computational method for identifying protein-protein interaction binding sites on a proteome-wide scale.

  PMID 17868464 · PMC2375030 · Genome biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  InSite predicts protein-pair-specific binding motifs ('Motif M on protein A binds to protein B') by integrating heterogeneous PPI and motif-motif interaction evidence within a Bayesian network trained by EM

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• A re-annotation pipeline for Illumina BeadArrays: improving the interpretation of gene expression data.

  PMID 19923232 · PMC2817484 · Nucleic acids research · 2010 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A Perl-based pipeline that BLASTs/BLATs Illumina probe sequences against genomes and transcript databases (RefSeq, UCSC Known Genes, UniGene/GenBank, Ensembl) can classify probes by quality grade (Perfect/Good/Bad/No match) and is applicable across 8 BeadArray platforms and other array types

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• BreakDancer: an algorithm for high-resolution mapping of genomic structural variation.

  PMID 19668202 · PMC3661775 · Nature methods · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  BreakDancer (BreakDancerMax + BreakDancerMini) is a software package that predicts a wide variety of structural variants including deletions, insertions, inversions, and intra/inter-chromosomal translocations from paired-end short-insert sequencing reads.

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• Graph Random Forest: A Graph Embedded Algorithm for Identifying Highly Connected Important Features.

  PMID 37509188 · PMC10377046 · Biomolecules · 2023 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  GRF identifies effective features that form highly connected sub-graphs on the underlying biological network

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• Function2Gene: a gene selection tool to increase the power of genetic association studies by utilizing public databases and expert knowledge.

  PMID 18631403 · PMC2500032 · BMC bioinformatics · 2008 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  Function2Gene is a set of Perl programs that queries public databases (NCBI, GeneCards, Harvester, with Uniprot/Ensembl also supported) using expert-selected keywords to rank genes by prior probability of disease association.

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