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).

• binny: an automated binning algorithm to recover high-quality genomes from complex metagenomic datasets.

  PMID 36239393 · PMC9677464 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  binny outperforms or is highly competitive with commonly used and state-of-the-art binning methods (MetaBAT2, MaxBin2, CONCOCT, VAMB, SemiBin, MetaDecoder)

  cami real-world metagenomic binned genome binning mag

• MEDUSA: A Pipeline for Sensitive Taxonomic Classification and Flexible Functional Annotation of Metagenomic Shotgun Sequences.

  PMID 35330728 · PMC8940201 · Frontiers in genetics · 2022 · 7 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 50

  MEDUSA correctly identifies more species than MEGAN 6 CE, especially less abundant species.

  bovine simulated cami datasets read host-sequence metagenome

• A consensus approach to vertebrate de novo transcriptome assembly from RNA-seq data: assembly of the duck (Anas platyrhynchos) transcriptome.

  PMID 25009556 · PMC4070175 · Frontiers in genetics · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  Multiple k-mer (MK) assemblies are more complete than single k-mer (SK) assemblies, showing higher reads-mapped-back-to-transcripts (RMBT) and higher CEGMA complete-gene percentages for all three tools.

  anas duck million random illumina read novo

• MZPAQ: a FASTQ data compression tool.

  PMID 31171931 · PMC6547476 · Source code for biology and medicine · 2019 · 7 claims · 3 setups

  Has reproduction · 58

  MZPAQ, a hybrid of MFCompress and ZPAQ, outperforms state-of-the-art and general-purpose compression tools on all benchmark datasets in terms of compression ratio

  fastq same compression overall

• MicroPIPE: validating an end-to-end workflow for high-quality complete bacterial genome construction.

  PMID 34172000 · PMC8235852 · BMC genomics · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 74

  MicroPIPE, an end-to-end Nextflow/Singularity-based pipeline built from systematically validated tool choices, produces high-quality complete bacterial genome assemblies without manual intervention.

  coli sequences nanopore basecalling demultiplexing

• An extensive evaluation of read trimming effects on Illumina NGS data analysis.

  PMID 24376861 · PMC3871669 · PloS one · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  Read trimming increases the quality and reliability of downstream NGS analyses (RNA-Seq mapping, SNP identification, genome assembly) while reducing execution time and computational resources.

  homo arabidopsis prunus saccharomyces rna-seq snp novo

• aCLImatise: automated generation of tool definitions for bioinformatics workflows.

  PMID 33325479 · PMC8016486 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2021 · 6 claims · 3 setups

  Has reproduction · 93

  aCLImatise automatically generates workflow-language tool definitions by parsing a command-line tool's help output

  samtools single bioconda automated large-scale

• HTSQualC is a flexible and one-step quality control software for high-throughput sequencing data analysis.

  PMID 34548573 · PMC8455540 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 89

  HTSQualC is a standalone, one-step QC software that performs filtering and trimming of raw HTS data in a single run

  cotton sugarcane tomato illumina single-end paired-end runtime

• TOFU-MAaPO: fast, scalable and reproducible analysis of large metagenome sequence data from the Sequence Read Archive.

  PMID 42277027 · PMC13260335 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  TOFU-MAaPO yields significantly more high-quality MAGs than metaFun, nf-core/mag, and ATLAS due to integration of multiple complementary binning tools with unified MAGScoT refinement

  gut same uniquely metagenome quality assembly-free

• metaFun: An analysis pipeline for metagenomic big data with fast and unified functional searches.

  PMID 41530917 · PMC12818822 · Gut microbes · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  metaFun is an open-source, end-to-end Nextflow/Apptainer pipeline integrating quality control, taxonomic profiling, functional profiling, de novo assembly, binning, genome assessment, comparative genomics, network analysis, and strain-level microdiversity analysis into a unified framework

  simulated selected gut mags novo binning pangenome-based

• miRge 2.0 for comprehensive analysis of microRNA sequencing data.

  PMID 30153801 · PMC6112139 · BMC bioinformatics · 2018 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 89

  An SVM-based novel miRNA detection model achieves an average MCC of 0.939 across 32 human cell datasets and outperforms miRDeep2 and miRAnalyzer on phylogenetic conservation of predicted miRNAs

  unmapped pooled colon adipose small novel a-to-i

• StatsDB: platform-agnostic storage and understanding of next generation sequencing run metrics.

  PMID 24627795 · PMC3938176 · F1000Research · 2013 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 43

  StatsDB is an open-source software package for storage and analysis of next generation sequencing run metrics, backed by an SQL (MySQL) database with Perl and Java APIs.

  fastq mysql perl java fastqc relational programmatic

• VGEA: an RNA viral assembly toolkit.

  PMID 34567846 · PMC8428259 · PeerJ · 2021 · 8 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 80

  VGEA is a Snakemake workflow that chains existing tools (fastp, BWA, SAMtools, IVA, shiver, SeqKit, QUAST, MultiQC) into an all-in-one RNA viral genome assembly pipeline

  sars-cov-2 lassa hiv-1 ngs-based computational comparative

• nf-rnaSeqCount: A Nextflow pipeline for obtaining raw read counts from RNA-seq data.

  PMID 35574063 · PMC9097006 · South African computer journal = Suid-Afrikaanse rekenaartydskrif · 2021 · 7 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 95

  nf-rnaSeqCount is a portable, reproducible Nextflow pipeline that maps RNA-seq reads to a reference genome and quantifies gene abundance for differential expression analysis

  black geo rna-seq rna-seq benchmarking quality

• What the Phage: a scalable workflow for the identification and analysis of phage sequences.

  PMID 36399058 · PMC9673492 · GigaScience · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 76

  WtP combines 11 tools (14 approaches) for phage prediction in a parallel, containerized Nextflow workflow

  assembled illumina phage-predicted predicted multitool metagenome gene

• Optimal Dual RNA-Seq Mapping for Accurate Pathogen Detection in Complex Eukaryotic Hosts.

  PMID 39959292 · PMC11825298 · Bio-protocol · 2025 · 7 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 90

  Mapping adapter-trimmed reads first to the pathogen genome recovers more pathogen reads than the traditional host-first mapping approach.

  monocyte-derived raw same trimmed dual fastqc adapter

• BABELOMICS: a systems biology perspective in the functional annotation of genome-scale experiments.

  PMID 16845052 · PMC1538844 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Babelomics is presented as an updated, complete suite of web tools for functional analysis of genome-scale experiments with new and improved modules

  pre-selected pre-tabulated genes ranked kegg expression text-mining

• Performance of methods to detect genetic variants from bisulphite sequencing data in a non-model species.

  PMID 34435438 · PMC9290141 · Molecular ecology resources · 2022 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  Bisulphite conversion of unmethylated cytosines to thymines violates strand-complementarity assumptions of SNP callers and confounds true C->T SNPs with unmethylated cytosines, complicating SNP calling from bisulphite sequencing data.

  blood bismark-aligned bwa-mem-based gem3-based whole-genome snp

• QuasiFlow: a Nextflow pipeline for analysis of NGS-based HIV-1 drug resistance data.

  PMID 36699347 · PMC9722223 · Bioinformatics advances · 2022 · 6 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 78

  QuasiFlow is a Nextflow pipeline that runs entirely locally via command-line tools and a local HIVdb database copy to analyze NGS-based HIV-1 drug resistance testing data.

  hiv-1 same paired-end reads ngs-based concordance read

• FEDRANN: effective long-read overlap detection based on dimensionality reduction and approximate nearest neighbors.

  PMID 42102720 · PMC13201080 · GigaScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A pipeline combining IDF transformation, sparse random projection (SRP), and NNDescent (the FEDRANN strategy) enables accurate overlap detection across diverse long-read datasets

  real same chromosome genome overlap exact simulated