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).

• Taxonomic analysis of metagenomic data with kASA.

  PMID 33784400 · PMC8266618 · Nucleic acids research · 2021 · 8 claims · 3 setups

  Has reproduction · 78

  kASA achieves high sensitivity and precision by using an amino acid-like encoding of k-mers together with a range of multiple k's

  synthetic real per-read taxonomic

• 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

• A comparative study of techniques for differential expression analysis on RNA-Seq data.

  PMID 25119138 · PMC4132098 · PloS one · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 58

  edgeR performs slightly better than DESeq and Cuffdiff2 in terms of the ability to uncover true positives.

  brain neurospheres lymphoblastoid simulation single-end paired-end rna-seq

• 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

• 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

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  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

• Improved eukaryotic detection compatible with large-scale automated analysis of metagenomes.

  PMID 37032329 · PMC10084625 · Microbiome · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 89

  MAPQ ≥30 filtering improves precision but substantially reduces recall, especially for unrepresented/divergent eukaryotic taxa

  eukdetect simulated zymobiomics read holdout mutation-rate

• 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

• 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

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

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

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  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

• 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

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  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

• Wochenende - modular and flexible alignment-based shotgun metagenome analysis.

  PMID 36368923 · PMC9650795 · BMC genomics · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Wochenende is a modular, transparent alignment-based pipeline for shotgun metagenome analysis supporting short and long reads across all kingdoms of life

  zymo bacterial reference shotgun comparative reference

• 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

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  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

• Multi-context seeds enable fast and high-accuracy read mapping.

  PMID 41764549 · PMC13059148 · Genome biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Multi-context seeds (MCS) allow storage of seeds with different lengths in the same index structure by splitting hash bits among strobes, enabling full and partial matches

  simulated chm13 same sequence seed simulated

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

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

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  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

• miRge 2.0 for comprehensive analysis of microRNA sequencing data.

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

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  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

• Benchmarking methods for genome annotation using nanopore direct RNA in a non-model crop plant.

  PMID 41800382 · PMC12967217 · Bioinformatics advances · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Annotation tools show substantial variation in isoform detection, structural completeness, splicing classification, and handling of 5' read truncation when applied to plant dRNA-seq data.

  barley extracted tool novel nanopore illumina transcriptome

• KAGE: fast alignment-free graph-based genotyping of SNPs and short indels.

  PMID 36195962 · PMC9531401 · Genome biology · 2022 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  KAGE combines population-based kmer count modeling with single-variant prior adjustment into an alignment-free genotyper that matches the accuracy of the best existing alignment-free genotypers while being an order of magnitude faster.

  small snps individual hg002 alignment-free kmer-based genotyping

• miRge3.0: a comprehensive microRNA and tRF sequencing analysis pipeline.

  PMID 34308351 · PMC8294687 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  miRge3.0 is a Python 3-based small RNA-seq and tRF analysis pipeline that improves on miRge2.0 (which was Python 2.7-based)

  sra synthetic qiagen-processed same small umi mirna

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

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

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  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