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).

• Meta-analysis of COVID-19 single-cell studies confirms eight key immune responses.

  PMID 34675242 · PMC8531356 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Only 8 of 20 previously published COVID-19 scRNA-seq findings were reproducible across all relevant datasets in a standardized meta-analysis

  pbmc bronchoalveolar nasopharyngeal combined scrna-seq tcr bcr

• FLASH-MM: fast and scalable single-cell differential expression analysis using linear mixed-effects models.

  PMID 41644528 · PMC12982622 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  FLASH-MM produces LMM parameter estimates identical to lmer (lme4) up to the sixth decimal place while being 50- to 140-fold faster as sample size increases from 20,000 to 120,000 cells

  simulated same healthy female-biased simulated comparative single-cell

• A chromosome-level reference genome and pangenome for barn swallow population genomics.

  PMID 36662619 · PMC10044405 · Cell reports · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A chromosome-level, karyotype-validated reference genome (bHirRus1) was assembled using the VGP pipeline combining PacBio CLR, 10x Linked-Reads, Bionano optical maps, and Hi-C data

  single barn bhirrus1 rustica genome cytogenetic reference-free

• Spatial Transcriptomics of Human Decidua Identifies Molecular Signatures in Recurrent Pregnancy Loss.

  PMID 41031483 · PMC13242933 · Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  The human decidua contains two coherent spatial domains, the implantation zone (IZ) and glandular-secretory zone (GZ), corresponding to the decidua compacta and spongiosa

  first-trimester decidual spots dnk 10x h&e type

• Cell-type annotation with accurate unseen cell-type identification using multiple references.

  PMID 37379341 · PMC10335708 · PLoS computational biology · 2023 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  mtANN integrates multiple reference datasets and eight gene selection methods via ensemble learning (multiple deep classification models + majority voting) to improve cell-type annotation accuracy

  pbmc pancreas covid-19 scrna-seq

• Single-Cell Transcriptomic Landscape of Right-Sided Colon Cancer Reveals Cellular and Molecular Features of Metastatic Potential.

  PMID 41898210 · PMC13024220 · Biomedicines · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 71

  RCC_LM tumors exhibit higher genomic instability (CNV score) than RCC_noM tumors

  right-sided malignant epithelial types scrna-seq copy trajectory

• Large-scale integration of single-cell transcriptomic data captures transitional progenitor states in mouse skeletal muscle regeneration.

  PMID 34773081 · PMC8589952 · Communications biology · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Large-scale integration of 111 sc/snRNAseq datasets captures rare, transitional myogenic progenitor states (commitment and fusion) that are poorly represented in individual datasets.

  skeletal merged myogenic muscle scrnaseq batch-correction differential

• TEMP: a computational method for analyzing transposable element polymorphism in populations.

  PMID 24753423 · PMC4066757 · Nucleic acids research · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TEMP combines pair-end (discordant) read and split (soft-clipped) read information to identify both presence and absence of TE insertions in genomic DNA from heterogeneous/pooled samples.

  drosophila five four melanogaster simulated comparative whole-genome

• A generic reference defined by consensus peaks for single-cell ATAC-seq data analysis.

  PMID 41663439 · PMC12996591 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Aggregating peaks from 624 high-quality bulk ATAC-seq datasets defines ~1.4 million observed consensus peaks (cPeaks) covering ~30% of the genome.

  bulk scatac-seq cnn gm12878 bulk scatac-seq deep

• Orthogonal cytokine engineering enables novel synthetic effector states escaping canonical exhaustion in tumor-rejecting CD8(+) T cells.

  PMID 37081150 · PMC10154250 · Nature immunology · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Orthogonal engineering with PD1d/IL-2v/IL-33 reprograms adoptively transferred CD8+ T cells into a novel synthetic effector state (C5/TSE) that deviates from canonical TOX+ exhaustion

  cd8+ b16-ova ot1 mice scrna-seq flow secretion

• Immunoregulatory Roles of Tumor-Originated Pericytes Identified by Single-Cell Analysis in Glioblastoma.

  PMID 41001759 · PMC12713092 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CD146 (MCAM) is a superior surface marker for sorting GBM pericytes, labeling nearly all PDGFRβ+ pericytes with strong specificity, unlike NG2 which labels fewer vessel-associated pericytes.

  facs-sorted frozen dissociated scrna-seq scrna-seq immunofluorescence fluorescence-activated

• Cell type-specific eQTL analysis of COVID-19 based on single-cell transcriptomic data.

  PMID 41064594 · PMC12501775 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-cell eQTL analysis across eight immune cell types identified 2593 genes whose expression is significantly associated with common genetic polymorphisms, with most genes showing cell type-specific effects

  pbmcs eight pbmc monocytes scrna-seq genetic cis-eqtl

• 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

• STAN, a computational framework for inferring spatially informed transcription factor activity.

  PMID 41521668 · PMC12784991 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  STAN, a linear mixed-effects (spatially weighted regression) model, integrates TF-target gene priors, gene expression, spatial coordinates, and histological image features to predict spot-specific TF activity in spatial transcriptomics data

  lymph glioblastoma breast dorsolateral spatial scrna-seq

• sCellST predicts single-cell gene expression from H& E images.

  PMID 41513659 · PMC12858858 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  sCellST is a weakly supervised (Multiple Instance Learning) deep learning framework that predicts single-cell gene expression from H&E images alone, trained using paired spatial transcriptomics (Visium) and H&E slides

  ovarian kidney prostate breast simulation spot-level nucleus

• 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

• Evaluating imputation methods for accurate estimation of cell population fractions in single-cell RNA sequencing.

  PMID 41503159 · PMC12770975 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Eight prominent imputation methods (MAGIC, SAVER, scVI, DCA, scBiG, kNN-smoothing, scImpute, ALRA) were systematically evaluated for their ability to recover the true non-zero expression fraction using simulated and real-world scRNA-seq data

  basal tracheal airway k562 simulated scrna-seq imputation

• WASP: a versatile, web-accessible single cell RNA-Seq processing platform.

  PMID 33736596 · PMC7977290 · BMC genomics · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  WASP is a software platform for processing Drop-Seq-based scRNA-seq data generated with ddSEQ or 10x protocols, combining a Snakemake pre-processing pipeline with an R Shiny post-processing application.

  specified generic scrna-seq read reference

• Spatial transcriptomics reveals altered communities and drivers of aberrant epithelia and pro-fibrotic fibroblasts in interstitial lung diseases.

  PMID 41576947 · PMC12985369 · Cell genomics · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  snRNA-seq census of 227,680 nuclei across 48 cell types reveals altered cellular states and compositional rewiring of the distal lung in ILD

  frozen lung flash-frozen spatial single-nucleus scrna-seq 10x

• Regulatory Noncoding Small RNAs Are Diverse and Abundant in an Extremophilic Microbial Community.

  PMID 32019831 · PMC7002113 · mSystems · 2020 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Hundreds of intergenic (itsRNAs) and antisense (asRNAs) sRNAs are expressed in the halite endolithic microbial community of the Atacama Desert

  halite same identified conserved strand-specific genome-resolved srna