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).

• Ultra-deep sequencing data from a liquid biopsy proficiency study demonstrating analytic validity.

  PMID 35418127 · PMC9008010 · Scientific data · 2022 · 6 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 87

  This dataset is the most comprehensive public-facing dataset of ultra-deep ctDNA sequencing data generated to date

  contrived enzymatically extracted targeted

• VirPipe: an easy-to-use and customizable pipeline for detecting viral genomes from Nanopore sequencing.

  PMID 37129547 · PMC10191607 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2023 · 8 claims · 1 setups

  Has reproduction · 83

  VirPipe is a new bioinformatics pipeline for detecting viral genomes from Nanopore or Illumina sequencing input with streamlined installation and customization.

  lung nanopore

• Whole-Genome Sequence of Cervid atadenovirus A from the Initial Cases of an Adenovirus Hemorrhagic Disease Epizootic of Black-Tailed Deer in Canada.

  PMID 36129291 · PMC9584332 · Microbiology resource announcements · 2022 · 7 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 81

  A complete 30,616-nucleotide genome of Cervid atadenovirus A was determined from lung tissue of black-tailed deer that died of AHD in British Columbia in 2020

  lung sequencing assembled deer high-throughput metagenomic reference

• Evidence for limited genetic compartmentalization of HIV-1 between lung and blood.

  PMID 19759830 · PMC2736399 · PloS one · 2009 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Statistical evidence of genetic compartmentalization between lung and blood HIV-1 env sequences was found in 10 of 18 subjects.

  paired lung tissue-pair pooled hiv-1 maximum statistical

• PulmonDB: a curated lung disease gene expression database.

  PMID 31949184 · PMC6965635 · Scientific reports · 2020 · 6 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 53

  PulmonDB is a curated, web-based gene expression database and R package integrating microarray and RNA-seq data for COPD and IPF with manually curated controlled-vocabulary annotation.

  lung ipf copd curated hierarchical differential

• Targeted and personalized immunotherapy in lung adenocarcinoma: single-cell RNA sequencing of MAFF+ tumor cells and the therapeutic potential of FOS.

  PMID 40936936 · PMC12420628 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 71

  A highly stem-like C0 MAFF+ tumor cell subtype dominates invasive LUAD, producing chemokines and activating lipid metabolism

  luad tumor a549 single-cell infercnv pseudotime

• Genetic demultiplexing of pooled single-cell RNA-sequencing samples in cancer facilitates effective experimental design.

  PMID 34553212 · PMC8458035 · GigaScience · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 87

  Genetic variation–based demultiplexing tools can be effectively deployed on cancer scRNA-seq tissue using a pooled experimental design, achieving high recall at acceptable precision-recall tradeoffs in both high-CNV (HGSOC) and high-SNV (lung adenocarcinoma) cancers, even with extremely high doublet proportions.

  high-grade lung hgsoc healthy single-cell matched doublet

• Detecting aberrant DNA methylation in Illumina DNA methylation arrays: a toolbox and recommendations for its use.

  PMID 37218167 · PMC10208159 · Epigenetics · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 73

  Probe-specific upper and lower thresholds for flagging aberrant DNA methylation can be derived from a reference database of >2,000 normal and tumour-adjacent normal samples spanning 25 tissue types.

  blood tcga gse40279 most illumina supervised unsupervised

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

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

  Has reproduction

  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

• Digital sorting of complex tissues for cell type-specific gene expression profiles.

  PMID 23497278 · PMC3626856 · BMC bioinformatics · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  The Digital Sorting Algorithm (DSA) deconvolves mixed tissue expression into cell type-specific profiles using only marker genes, without requiring prior knowledge of cell type frequencies or in vitro pure-cell profiles.

  liver im-9 immune deconvolved microarray simulation roc

• Expression analysis of secreted and cell surface genes of five transformed human cell lines and derivative xenograft tumors.

  PMID 15836779 · PMC1112590 · BMC genomics · 2005 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  A custom 60-mer oligonucleotide microarray covering 3531 secreted and cell surface genes was designed to profile 5 transformed human cell lines and their derivative xenograft tumors.

  carcinoma derivative xenograft custom quantitative

• The selection of software and database for metagenomics sequence analysis impacts the outcome of microbial profiling and pathogen detection.

  PMID 37027361 · PMC10081788 · PloS one · 2023 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 86

  Obtaining an accurate species-level microbial profile using current direct-read metagenomics profiling software is still a challenging task.

  simulated kidney biological extracted shotgun taxonomic pathogen

• Oncogene mutations, copy number gains and mutant allele specific imbalance (MASI) frequently occur together in tumor cells.

  PMID 19826477 · PMC2757721 · PloS one · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Homozygous mutations of oncogenes are frequent (20%) across 833 cancer cell lines of 12 tumor types in the Sanger database

  tumors cancer tumor lung direct database quantitative

• miRge 2.0 for comprehensive analysis of microRNA sequencing data.

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

  Has reproduction · 89

  miRge 2.0 introduces a novel SVM-based miRNA detection method using both hairpin structure and isomiR composition, yielding higher specificity for miRNA identification

  pooled colon datasets small a-to-i novel

• A comprehensive framework for analysis of microRNA sequencing data in metastatic colorectal cancer.

  PMID 35047825 · PMC8759566 · NAR cancer · 2022 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 100

  Five miRNAs (Mir-210_3p, Mir-191_5p, Mir-8-P1b_3p [miR-141-3p], Mir-1307_5p, Mir-155_5p) are up-regulated at multiple metastatic sites in colorectal cancer.

  pcrc mli mirna-seq mirna mirna qpcr differential

• SpaGene: A Deep Adversarial Framework for Spatial Gene Imputation.

  PMID 42146899 · PMC13176606 · Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 74

  SpaGene improves average PCC and SSIM and reduces RMSE compared to 6 baseline methods (SpaGE, gimVI, Tangram, VISTA, spRefine, stDiff) across 8 diverse ST-SC dataset pairs under gene-holdout evaluation.

  pairs nanostring st-sc osmfish_zeisel st-sc 5-fold spatially

• In vivo structural characterization of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA genome identifies host proteins vulnerable to repurposed drugs.

  PMID 33636127 · PMC7871767 · Cell · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 95

  icSHAPE was used to determine the in vivo and in vitro structural landscape of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA genome in infected Huh7.5.1 cells, plus UTR structures of six other coronaviruses

  huh7.5.1 sars-cov-2 utrs 18s icshape structure deep-learning

• Optimal scaling of digital transcriptomes.

  PMID 24223126 · PMC3819321 · PloS one · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  Fifteen existing and novel transcript-count normalization algorithms can be compared with two novel, mutually independent metrics: the number of "uniform" genes (sufficiently low coefficient of variation after normalization) and low average Spearman correlation between normalized expression profiles of gene pairs.

  tissues bodymap mapped 16-sample bulk read transcript

• A critical reassessment of the role of mitochondria in tumorigenesis.

  PMID 16187796 · PMC1240051 · PLoS medicine · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A significant number of published medical mtDNA cancer studies are based on obviously flawed sequencing results.

  hepatocellular papillary prostate tissues mtdna mutational