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).

• 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

• GeneAlign: a coding exon prediction tool based on phylogenetical comparisons.

  PMID 16845010 · PMC1538901 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  GeneAlign predicts coding exons by using signal detection (GeneSplicer/WMM) combined with CORAL, a heuristic linear-time alignment tool, to align candidate signal-flanked regions against annotated exons of a homologous organism's genes

  homologous human-mouse same gene comparative parameter micro-exon

• Towards alignment independent quantitative assessment of homology detection.

  PMID 17205117 · PMC1762415 · PloS one · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The Fhom Estimator uses the prevalence of a conserved protein feature (X) in two protein sets to estimate the fraction of true homologs among paired proteins, independent of alignment quality.

  curated homologene swiss-prot fruit signalp homologene-based fhom

• OPTIC: orthologous and paralogous transcripts in clades.

  PMID 17933761 · PMC2238935 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  OPTIC is a database providing gene predictions and orthology assignments for three clades: amniotes (human, dog, mouse, opossum, platypus, chicken), 12 Drosophila species, and 4 Caenorhabditis nematodes.

  drosophila translated gene orthologous homology-based all-against-all tree-based

• Protein function assignment through mining cross-species protein-protein interactions.

  PMID 18253506 · PMC2216687 · PloS one · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  CSIDOP predicts protein molecular function with 95.42% accuracy using 2,972 GO functional categories in H. sapiens

  sapiens cross-species majority simple

• Widespread A-to-I RNA editing of Alu-containing mRNAs in the human transcriptome.

  PMID 15534692 · PMC526178 · PLoS biology · 2004 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Intramolecular pairs of oppositely oriented Alu elements within the same pre-mRNA form dsRNA foldback structures that are major substrates for A-to-I RNA editing

  huge brain pre-mrna greater genomic rt-pcr quantitative

• Comparative gene finding in chicken indicates that we are closing in on the set of multi-exonic widely expressed human genes.

  PMID 15809229 · PMC1074396 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Comparative gene finding (SGP2) between human and chicken, followed by RT-PCR verification, adds at most ~0.2% new genes to the multi-exonic human gene catalog

  chicken predicted human-chicken cdna comparative blastp pairwise

• Reconstruction of human protein interolog network using evolutionary conserved network.

  PMID 17493278 · PMC1885812 · BMC bioinformatics · 2007 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A relative conservation score derived from maximal quasi-cliques in protein interaction networks, combined with other interaction features, can score and rank predicted human interologs for confidence.

  ppi sequences interaction predicted interolog orthology quasi-clique

• 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

• An efficient method for the prediction of deleterious multiple-point mutations in the secondary structure of RNAs using suboptimal folding solutions.

  PMID 18445289 · PMC2386494 · BMC bioinformatics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Using RNAsubopt suboptimal solutions computed once for the wild-type sequence, specific multiple-point mutations likely to cause conformational rearrangement can be selected without brute-force enumeration.

  example hepatitis minimum suboptimal multiple-point

• Dissecting microregulation of a master regulatory network.

  PMID 18294391 · PMC2289817 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  143 human miRNAs (termed p53-miRs) each contain at least one putative p53 binding site within 10 kb flanking sequence and are predicted to target at least one known gene

  genome mirnas mirna-target predicted p53 mirna cross-referencing

• Pegasys: software for executing and integrating analyses of biological sequences.

  PMID 15096276 · PMC406494 · BMC bioinformatics · 2004 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Pegasys is a flexible, modular, customizable software system for executing and integrating heterogeneous biological sequence analysis tools

  eukaryotic formatted genomic input initio sequence gene

• Using several pair-wise informant sequences for de novo prediction of alternatively spliced transcripts.

  PMID 16925842 · PMC1810557 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  MARS, an extension of the Twinscan algorithm, uses multiple pairwise informant genomes to predict human alternatively spliced transcripts de novo without expressed sequence information.

  genome tissues novo pairwise rt-pcr

• Promoting human promoters.

  PMID 16760901 · PMC1681504 · Molecular systems biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  A computational protocol using MARS on known sequence motifs can quantify transcription factor effects on human gene expression despite noise and data size challenges

  gene liver cycle genes computational expression time-course

• miRNAMap: genomic maps of microRNA genes and their target genes in mammalian genomes.

  PMID 16381831 · PMC1347497 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  miRNAMap integrates known miRNA genes from miRBase, literature-curated validated targets, and computationally predicted miRNA genes and targets for human, mouse, rat and dog.

  conserved putative mirna-target normal comparative machine mirna

• Methylation of class II transactivator gene promoter IV is not associated with susceptibility to multiple sclerosis.

  PMID 18606010 · PMC2464579 · BMC medical genetics · 2008 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  Methylation of the MHC2TA promoter pIV is not associated with MS susceptibility; no methylation was detected in any twin sample regardless of disease status

  peripheral mhc2ta pcr sanger bisulfite cpg

• Predicting failure rate of PCR in large genomes.

  PMID 18492719 · PMC2441781 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  The number of predicted primer-binding sites in genomic DNA is the most important factor determining PCR failure.

  genomic genome pcr combined large-scale exact-match mismatch-tolerant

• Trans-natural antisense transcripts including noncoding RNAs in 10 species: implications for expression regulation.

  PMID 18653530 · PMC2528163 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A new computational pipeline identifies trans-SAs using ESTs (not just mRNAs) across 10 animal species, improving coverage over prior methods

  est unannotated trans-sa tus computational coding hybridization

• GenomeTrafac: a whole genome resource for the detection of transcription factor binding site clusters associated with conventional and microRNA encoding genes conserved between mouse and human gene orthologs.

  PMID 17178752 · PMC1781107 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  GenomeTrafac is a web-accessible database enabling genome-wide detection of conserved cis-element clusters in human-mouse gene orthologs, covering both conventional and microRNA genes

  human-mouse genome blastz-aligned itgb1bp2 comparative transcription sequence

• Does distance matter? Variations in alternative 3' splicing regulation.

  PMID 17704130 · PMC2018619 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Alternative 3' splice sites can be distinguished from constitutive splice sites by a combination of sequence/conservation properties that vary depending on the distance between the splice sites.

  intronic human-mouse same comparative polypyrimidine branch