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).

• Hobbes: optimized gram-based methods for efficient read alignment.

  PMID 22199254 · PMC3315303 · Nucleic acids research · 2012 · 8 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 83

  Hobbes, a gram-based short-read mapper supporting Hamming and edit distance, is faster than all other read-mapping programs tested while maintaining high mapping quality.

  genome hg18 example reference read-mapping character-substitution algorithmic

• 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.

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• Personalized copy number and segmental duplication maps using next-generation sequencing.

  PMID 19718026 · PMC2875196 · Nature genetics · 2009 · 5 claims · 5 setups

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  mrFAST maps short reads to all possible locations in the reference genome, enabling read-depth-based prediction of absolute copy number in both unique and duplicated sequence, including discrimination between highly identical gene paralogs.

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• nf-core/circrna: a portable workflow for the quantification, miRNA target prediction and differential expression analysis of circular RNAs.

  PMID 36694127 · PMC9875403 · BMC bioinformatics · 2023 · 8 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 76

  Existing circRNA workflows are limited: none delineate circRNA-miRNA interactions and only one performs differential expression analysis, requiring users to supplement missing analysis types with in-house expertise

  paired-end rna-seq mature circrna read circrna mirna

• Evaluating genome sequencing strategies: trio, singleton, and standard testing in rare disease diagnosis.

  PMID 40963120 · PMC12445032 · Genome medicine · 2025 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Trio genome sequencing (tGS) achieves higher prospective diagnostic yield than standard-of-care (SoC) and singleton genome sequencing (sGS) even when performed by a newly trained team.

  individuals index blood short-read exome array

• Structure of the intergenic spacers in chicken ribosomal DNA.

  PMID 31655542 · PMC6815422 · Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE · 2019 · 7 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 80

  Long-read PacBio sequencing of a chicken NOR-containing BAC clone resolved three complete IGS sequences plus rRNA gene clusters that are otherwise missing from genome assemblies.

  wag137g04 pacbio gallus_gallus-5.0 chicken long-read novo comparative

• Deep transcriptomics reveals cell-specific isoforms of pan-neuronal genes.

  PMID 40379625 · PMC12084633 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Pan-neuronal genes (expressed in many/all neurons) harbor highly cell-specific splice variants/isoforms restricted to single or few neuron types.

  elegans short-read whole-animal rt-pcr

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

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

  Has reproduction · 86

  Of the four most frequent plasmid types, types II and III have more stable size, larger core genomes, and track the chromosomal phylogeny (more vertical transmission), while types I and IV (pSym) vary in size and gene content with phylogenies consistent with frequent horizontal transmission.

  clover-associated plasmids plasmidome replicons long-read k-mer genome

• Whole-genome analysis of a multidrug-resistant Klebsiella michiganensis environmental isolate from an orthopedic ward in Mwanza, Tanzania reveals IncF-family plasmid replicon signatures associated with resistance determinants.

  PMID 41957580 · PMC13173886 · BMC genomics · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Genome-based taxonomy (GTDB-Tk and ANI) reclassified the isolate A55848, phenotypically identified as K. oxytoca, as Klebsiella michiganensis

  klebsiella isolate a55848 assembled short-read phenotypic genome-based

• Long-read nanopore shotgun metagenomic DNA sequencing for river biodiversity, wildlife, pollution, and environmental health monitoring.

  PMID 42038409 · PMC13107125 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 78

  Long-read shotgun metagenomic sequencing of eDNA can simultaneously detect and quantify organismal DNA from viruses to mammals in a single assay

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• Determination of complete chromosomal haplotypes by bulk DNA sequencing.

  PMID 33957932 · PMC8101039 · Genome biology · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 97

  A hierarchical computational strategy that first builds high-confidence local haplotype blocks from long-range/linked-read linkage and then concatenates them into whole-chromosome haplotypes using Hi-C contacts

  rpe-1 na12878 aneuploid linked-read hi-c bulk

• Enhanced protein isoform characterization through long-read proteogenomics.

  PMID 35241129 · PMC8892804 · Genome biology · 2022 · 6 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 79

  A long-read proteogenomics pipeline integrating PacBio long-read RNA-seq with MS-based proteomics enhances isoform-resolved protein characterization

  jurkat jurkat-derived long-read transcript orf

• msPIPE: a pipeline for the analysis and visualization of whole-genome bisulfite sequencing data.

  PMID 36123620 · PMC9487059 · BMC bioinformatics · 2022 · 6 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 100

  msPIPE is a new end-to-end pipeline integrating pre-processing, alignment & methylation calling, and downstream DNA methylation analysis (profiling, HMR, DMR, functional enrichment) with publication-quality figure output for WGBS data

  blood rod sperm old wgbs hypomethylated differential

• Human Retrotransposons and Effective Computational Detection Methods for Next-Generation Sequencing Data.

  PMID 36295018 · PMC9605557 · Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Transposable elements make up nearly 45% of the human genome, vastly exceeding the ~1.5% that is protein-coding.

  genome normal drosophila long short-read whole-genome synthetic

• Characterization of protein isoform diversity in human umbilical vein endothelial cells via long-read proteogenomics.

  PMID 36457147 · PMC9721438 · RNA biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Long-read RNA-seq detected 53,863 transcript isoforms from 10,426 genes in HUVECs, of which 22,195 were novel

  huvecs huvec long-read bottom-up offline

• Evaluation of taxonomic classification and profiling methods for long-read shotgun metagenomic sequencing datasets.

  PMID 36513983 · PMC9749362 · BMC bioinformatics · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 99

  Long-read classifiers generally performed best among the 11 methods tested

  atcc zymobiomics taxonomic short-read

• TrEMOLO: accurate transposable element allele frequency estimation using long-read sequencing data combining assembly and mapping-based approaches.

  PMID 37013657 · PMC10069131 · Genome biology · 2023 · 6 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 89

  TrEMOLO combines an assembly-based INSIDER module and a mapping-based OUTSIDER module to detect TE insertions/deletions from long-read sequencing data and estimate their allele frequency

  melanogaster simulated long-read whole-genome genome

• Intra-Host Co-Existing Strains of SARS-CoV-2 Reference Genome Uncovered by Exhaustive Computational Search.

  PMID 37243151 · PMC10224212 · Viruses · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 100

  An exhaustive-search workflow can recover intra-host co-existing SARS-CoV-2 strains from the reference-genome read set (SRR11092062) that de Bruijn-graph assemblers discard.

  sars-cov-2 spike predicted california short-read read sequence

• Evaluation of the Available Variant Calling Tools for Oxford Nanopore Sequencing in Breast Cancer.

  PMID 36140751 · PMC9498802 · Genes · 2022 · 7 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 51

  Clair3 and Human-SNP-wf (which incorporates Clair3) achieved the highest performance among the six variant callers tested.

  giab hg001 brca1 filtered long-read read bam

• Gapless provides combined scaffolding, gap filling, and assembly correction with long reads.

  PMID 37142439 · PMC10166144 · Life science alliance · 2023 · 8 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 73

  gapless is a new tool that combines assembly correction, scaffolding, and gap filling in one pipeline using PacBio or Oxford Nanopore long reads.

  coli dolphin supernova four long-read read-alignment