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).

• 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

• The role of positive selection in determining the molecular cause of species differences in disease.

  PMID 18837980 · PMC2576240 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Genes predicted to be under positive selection during human evolution are implicated in diseases (epithelial cancers, schizophrenia, autoimmune diseases, Alzheimer's disease) that differ in prevalence and symptomatology between humans and other mammals

  orthologous omim meta-database panther comparative disease protein-protein

• Analyses of deep mammalian sequence alignments and constraint predictions for 1% of the human genome.

  PMID 17567995 · PMC1891336 · Genome research · 2007 · 7 claims · 3 setups

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  Four different alignment methods show large-scale consistency but substantial differences in small-scale rearrangements, sensitivity, and specificity.

  mammalian aligned constrained sequence evolutionary comparative

• Benchmarking ortholog identification methods using functional genomics data.

  PMID 16613613 · PMC1557999 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  InParanoid is the best overall ortholog identification method for identifying functionally equivalent proteins when sensitivity and selectivity are combined into an overall score.

  known human-mouse expression interpro co-expression

• 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

• Assessing the genomic evidence for conserved transcribed pseudogenes under selection.

  PMID 19754956 · PMC2753554 · BMC genomics · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  1750 transcribed pseudogene annotations (TPAs) were identified in the human genome, ~11.5% of all human pseudogene annotations.

  genome rhesus vega-annotated tpas transcript-to-genome same synteny

• Identifying cis-regulatory sequences by word profile similarity.

  PMID 19730735 · PMC2731932 · PloS one · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  WPH-finder identifies putative co-regulated CRMs by scanning the genome for sequences with word profiles similar to a known CRM, without explicitly defining binding sites

  stripe pair-rule nrsf-bound eve genome-wide chip-chip chip-seq

• 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.

  dbest cancer gene est human-mouse leave-one-out

• A Deluge of Complex Repeats: The Solanum Genome.

  PMID 26241045 · PMC4524691 · PloS one · 2015 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ~50–60% of the genomes of S. tuberosum and S. lycopersicum are composed of repetitive elements

  tuberosum orthologous novo synteny orthologous

• 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

• Phylogenetic analysis of mRNA polyadenylation sites reveals a role of transposable elements in evolution of the 3'-end of genes.

  PMID 18757892 · PMC2553571 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  3'-most (L type) poly(A) sites are more conserved than upstream F/M type sites, while intronic (C/H type) sites are the least conserved

  consensus poly comparative transposable

• Tandem repeats modify the structure of human genes hosted in segmental duplications.

  PMID 19954527 · PMC2812944 · Genome biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Around 7% of primate-specific genes located within segmental duplications contain variable internal tandem repeats (ITRs).

  genome genomic est paired genome-wide comparative cnv

• Identification and evolutionary analysis of novel exons and alternative splicing events using cross-species EST-to-genome comparisons in human, mouse and rat.

  PMID 16536879 · PMC1479377 · BMC bioinformatics · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  ENACE, a cross-species EST-to-genome comparison algorithm, can identify novel cassette-on exons and retained introns for EST-scanty species and distinguish conserved vs lineage-specific exons

  presumably orthologous enace genes cross-species rt-pcr-sequencing nonsynonymous-to-synonymous

• Genome-wide identification of human functional DNA using a neutral indel model.

  PMID 16410828 · PMC1326222 · PLoS computational biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A neutral indel model predicting a geometric distribution of intergap segment (IGS) lengths fits human-mouse ancestral repeat (AR) alignment data excellently

  chromosome human-mouse genome individual whole-genome probabilistic comparative

• A new procedure for determining the genetic basis of a physiological process in a non-model species, illustrated by cold induced angiogenesis in the carp.

  PMID 19852815 · PMC2771047 · BMC genomics · 2009 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  The Conditional Stepped Reciprocal Best Hit (CSRBH) approach, combining direct RBH and zebrafish-stepped RBH (SRBH), outperformed other ortholog assignment methods and attained 8,726 carp-human functional homolog relationships for 16,650 carp contigs

  carp randomly zebrafish reciprocal sequence microarray

• The lords of the genomes.

  PMID 15461811 · PMC545592 · Genome biology · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Functionally active clusters of transcription-factor binding sites are evolutionarily conserved between Drosophila species, whereas inactive clusters are not, even when sequence identity alone cannot distinguish them

  drosophila cdna-derived saccharomyces acid reporter-gene enhancer chromatin

• Plasmid transmission dynamics and evolution of partner quality in a natural population of Rhizobium leguminosarum.

  PMID 41212030 · PMC12691615 · mBio · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Plasmid types II and III have more stable size, larger core genomes, and phylogenies that track the chromosome, indicating predominantly vertical transmission

  rhizobium extrachromosomal plasmidome gse long-read k-mer genome

• Genetic architecture of natural variation of cardiac performance from flies to humans.

  PMID 36383075 · PMC9668334 · eLife · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Natural genetic variation significantly influences cardiac performance traits (rhythmicity and contractility) across 167 DGRP lines

  drosophila dgrp gene induced high-speed genome-wide epistasis

• Bias of selection on human copy-number variants.

  PMID 16482228 · PMC1366494 · PLoS genetics · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Human CNVs are significantly overrepresented near telomeres and centromeres and enriched in simple tandem repeats relative to the genome as a whole

  genome human-mouse cnv-encompassed inbred comparative randomization molecular

• Sequence similarity network reveals common ancestry of multidomain proteins.

  PMID 18475320 · PMC2377100 · PLoS computational biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Traditional homology definitions do not capture multidomain evolution; the authors extend the definition to include domain insertion via a common ancestral locus model.

  curated complete well-studied sequence alignment domain