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).

• Comparing the utility of in vivo transposon mutagenesis approaches in yeast species to infer gene essentiality.

  PMID 32681306 · PMC7599172 · Current genetics · 2020 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  A Random Forest machine-learning approach can predict gene essentiality from in vivo transposon insertion data across multiple yeast species and transposon systems

  cerevisiae pombe albicans hermes acds piggybac

• A comparison of random sequence reads versus 16S rDNA sequences for estimating the biodiversity of a metagenomic library.

  PMID 18682527 · PMC2532719 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Biodiversity observed by RSR analysis is consistent with that obtained by 16S rDNA analysis

  faecal rsr 16s sargasso shotgun blastn-based 16s

• Predicting the pathogenicity of missense variants using features derived from AlphaFold2.

  PMID 37084271 · PMC10203375 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2023 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  AlphaFold2-derived structural features (solvent accessibility, amino acid network features, physicochemical environment, pLDDT) can be used to train a random forest classifier (AlphScore) that distinguishes proxy-benign from proxy-pathogenic missense variants.

  gnomad alphafold2-predicted alphscore proteins machine secondary physicochemical

• A Decentralized Kidney Transplant Biopsy Classifier for Transplant Rejection Developed Using Genes of the Banff-Human Organ Transplant Panel.

  PMID 35619722 · PMC9128066 · Frontiers in immunology · 2022 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  A random forest model trained solely on B-HOT panel genes (B-HOT Model) accurately classifies kidney transplant biopsies as NR, ABMR, or TCMR.

  kidney gene combined microarray machine sequential

• Application of two machine learning algorithms to genetic association studies in the presence of covariates.

  PMID 19014573 · PMC2620353 · BMC genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  The relative performance of RF and MARS for detecting genotype-trait associations depends on both the strategy used to handle covariates and the true underlying model of association (e.g., confounding vs. mediation vs. interaction).

  simulated cohort simulation applied

• Screening large-scale association study data: exploiting interactions using random forests.

  PMID 15588316 · PMC545646 · BMC genetics · 2004 · 7 claims · 3 setups

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  Random forest importance measure significantly outperforms the Fisher Exact test as a screening tool when risk SNPs interact.

  simulated same simulation random fisher

• Macrel: antimicrobial peptide screening in genomes and metagenomes.

  PMID 33384902 · PMC7751412 · PeerJ · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Macrel is an end-to-end pipeline that predicts high-quality AMP candidates from peptides, contigs, or reads of (meta)genomes

  curated hemopi-1 xiao cd-hit random amp homology-aware

• Deconvolution of the hematopoietic stem cell microenvironment reveals a high degree of specialization and conservation.

  PMID 35494238 · PMC9046238 · iScience · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A customized bootstrapping/random-forest divide-and-conquer clustering pipeline integrating three scRNA-seq datasets robustly resolves cell states despite high cell-to-cell similarity within compartments

  bone endothelial independent integrated single-cell scrna-seq gene

• MiPred: classification of real and pseudo microRNA precursors using random forest prediction model with combined features.

  PMID 17553836 · PMC1933124 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A hybrid feature combining local contiguous triplet structure-sequence composition, MFE of the secondary structure, and P-value of a randomization test improves classification of real vs pseudo pre-miRNAs

  real combined pre-mirna training random independent repeated

• The association of Alu repeats with the generation of potential AU-rich elements (ARE) at 3' untranslated regions.

  PMID 15610565 · PMC544599 · BMC genomics · 2004 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  Alu repeats are a source of AREs at 3' UTRs of human mRNA, via poly-A regions of Alu generating complementary poly-T/poly-U regions that acquire regular adenine insertions to form ARE motifs.

  utr computationally are repeat positional

• A clustering property of highly-degenerate transcription factor binding sites in the mammalian genome.

  PMID 16670430 · PMC1456330 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Highly-degenerate RE1 sites are significantly enriched in promoters of validated and putative REST target genes compared to control promoters

  orthologous randomized high-score promoters pssm-based comparative motif

• Deducing topology of protein-protein interaction networks from experimentally measured sub-networks.

  PMID 18598366 · PMC2474618 · BMC bioinformatics · 2008 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Experimentally measured protein-protein interaction sub-networks are not random samples of their parent networks.

  yeast drosophila networks dppi reanalysis computer repeated

• Disease-aging network reveals significant roles of aging genes in connecting genetic diseases.

  PMID 19779549 · PMC2739292 · PLoS computational biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Human disease genes are much closer to aging genes in the PPI network than expected by chance

  protein-protein randomized dan aging network degree-conserved closeness

• Spontaneous symmetry breaking in genome evolution.

  PMID 18367477 · PMC2377439 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 6 claims · 3 setups

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  Exon size distributions in sequenced genomes follow a lognormal pattern typical of a random Kolmogoroff fractioning process

  animal homo model genome-wide alternatively computational

• Sequencing of human genomes with nanopore technology.

  PMID 31015479 · PMC6478738 · Nature communications · 2019 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A novel single-sample, reference panel-free, read-based phasing algorithm built on the STITCH model improves nanopore SNV calling from modest baseline levels.

  gm12878 na12878 clinical whole-genome snv read-based

• Computational tradeoffs in multiplex PCR assay design for SNP genotyping.

  PMID 16042802 · PMC1190169 · BMC genomics · 2005 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Achieving high-multiplexing/high-coverage multiplex PCR designs is subject to a computational phase transition as the SNP-pair compatibility probability crosses a critical threshold

  simulated real chromosome randomly simulation multiplex coverage-vs-n

• Accurate prediction of metagenome-assembled genome completeness by MAGISTA, a random forest model built on alignment-free intra-bin statistics.

  PMID 35248155 · PMC8898458 · Environmental microbiome · 2022 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  MAGISTA, a random forest model built on alignment-free intra-bin distance-distribution statistics, can estimate MAG completeness and purity without relying on reference marker genes.

  pooled hc227 contig sets shotgun novo alignment-free

• A temporal classifier predicts histopathology state and parses acute-chronic phasing in inflammatory bowel disease patients.

  PMID 36694043 · PMC9873918 · Communications biology · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The DSS phenotype-by-time interaction defines parsimonious temporal (dynamic) expression and splicing signatures of acute and chronic colitis distinct from time-specific differential expression.

  intestine colon dss distal bulk phenotypic h&e

• Tracing human genetic histories and natural selection with precise local ancestry inference.

  PMID 40379651 · PMC12084304 · Nature communications · 2025 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Orchestra, a two-stage LAI method combining a recombination-distance base layer with a deep learning (convolutional + attention) smoothing module, outperforms RFmix, FLARE and Gnomix in precision and recall across simulated admixture generations.

  1kgp-16pops independent simulated 1kgp simulated population-level local

• GenTB: A user-friendly genome-based predictor for tuberculosis resistance powered by machine learning.

  PMID 34461978 · PMC8407037 · Genome medicine · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  GenTB is a free, open, web-based application offering two ML predictors (Random Forest and WDNN) that predict resistance to 13 and 10 anti-TB drugs, respectively.

  clinical tuberculosis registered whole-genome targeted retraining