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).

• BFAST: an alignment tool for large scale genome resequencing.

  PMID 19907642 · PMC2770639 · PloS one · 2009 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  BFAST is a new algorithm and freely available software tool for aligning large-scale short-read sequencing data to large reference genomes with user-customizable speed and accuracy

  reference genome simulated real-world k-mer

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

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

  Has reproduction · 61

  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

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

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

  Has reproduction · 76

  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.

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• A reference profile-free deconvolution method to infer cancer cell-intrinsic subtypes and tumor-type-specific stromal profiles.

  PMID 32111252 · PMC7049190 · Genome medicine · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DeClust is a reference profile-free deconvolution method that simultaneously deconvolves bulk tumor expression into cancer, immune, and stromal compartments and clusters samples into cancer cell-intrinsic molecular subtypes, outputting subtype-specific reference profiles for the cohort rather than for individuals.

  solid muscle-invasive ccrcc for bulk single-cell scrna-seq

• Searching for SNPs with cloud computing.

  PMID 19930550 · PMC3091327 · Genome biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Crossbow combines the Bowtie short-read aligner and SOAPsnp SNP caller into a seamless, automatic Hadoop/MapReduce pipeline for whole-genome resequencing analysis

  han local short simulated whole-genome cloud

• Analyses and comparison of accuracy of different genotype imputation methods.

  PMID 18958166 · PMC2569208 · PloS one · 2008 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  Stronger LD produces higher imputation accuracy rates for all five methods

  simulated real linux genotype computational

• RNASEQR--a streamlined and accurate RNA-seq sequence analysis program.

  PMID 22199257 · PMC3315322 · Nucleic acids research · 2012 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  RNASEQR is a new RNA-seq mapper/aligner that combines a BWT-based (Bowtie) transcriptomic/genomic alignment with hash-based BLAT local alignment in three sequential steps: transcriptome mapping, novel exon detection, and anchor-and-align novel splice junction identification.

  ccds glioblastoma experimental simulated simulated bulk quality

• 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

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  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

• HArmonized single-cell RNA-seq Cell type Assisted Deconvolution (HASCAD).

  PMID 37907883 · PMC10619225 · BMC medical genomics · 2023 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  HASCAD, a DNN-based cell composition deconvolution model, predicts the fractions of up to 15 immune cell types from bulk RNA-seq.

  pbmc bulk tcga-lihc harmony-symphony scrna-seq simulated bulk

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

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

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  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

• CRISPRbuilder-TB: "CRISPR-builder for tuberculosis". Exhaustive reconstruction of the CRISPR locus in mycobacterium tuberculosis complex using SRA.

  PMID 33667225 · PMC7968741 · PLoS computational biology · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  CRISPRbuilder-TB is a new pipeline that reconstructs MTC CRISPR-Cas loci directly from short SRA reads without requiring genome assembly

  simulated wgs reference same novo blast-based k-mer

• MetaGT: A pipeline for de novo assembly of metatranscriptomes with the aid of metagenomic data.

  PMID 36386613 · PMC9651917 · Frontiers in microbiology · 2022 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  MetaGT is a pipeline that combines metatranscriptomic and metagenomic data from the same sample to assemble complete transcript sequences

  simulated mock16 real snailgut novo transcript gene

• FusionQ: a novel approach for gene fusion detection and quantification from paired-end RNA-Seq.

  PMID 23768108 · PMC3691734 · BMC bioinformatics · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  FusionQ is a novel tool that detects gene fusions, constructs chimerical transcript structures, and estimates their abundances from paired-end RNA-Seq data.

  simulated four rna-seq randomly simulated paired-end read-mappability

• Automated recognition of retroviral sequences in genomic data--RetroTector.

  PMID 17636050 · PMC1976444 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  RetroTector uses 'fragment threading' (detection of chains of conserved retroviral motifs satisfying distance constraints) combined with LTR detection and protein reconstruction to identify ERVs in genomic sequences

  reference genome chimpanzee red motif whole-genome simulated

• Modeling genetic inheritance of copy number variations.

  PMID 18832372 · PMC2588508 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  A joint HMM framework for parents-offspring trios significantly improves CNV call rates and boundary inference accuracy compared to existing methods.

  simulated parent-offspring hapmap hmm-based snp genotype

• RNA modifications detection by comparative Nanopore direct RNA sequencing.

  PMID 34893601 · PMC8664944 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Nanocompore is a model-free comparative method that uses a 2-component Gaussian mixture model (GMM) and univariate statistical tests on signal intensity/dwell time to detect RNA modifications in Nanopore direct RNA sequencing data without needing a training set

  simulated synthetic escherichia saccharomyces nanopore computational

• Assessment of algorithms for high throughput detection of genomic copy number variation in oligonucleotide microarray data.

  PMID 17910767 · PMC2148068 · BMC bioinformatics · 2007 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Different CNV analysis software packages produce highly variable numbers and types of candidate CNVs from the same data

  normalized individuals subset same affymetrix fluorescent snp

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

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

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  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

• CONSULT: accurate contamination removal using locality-sensitive hashing.

  PMID 34377979 · PMC8340999 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  CONSULT uses locality-sensitive hashing to test whether query k-mers fall within a user-defined Hamming distance of a reference k-mer database, allowing inexact matching against tens of thousands of microbial species.

  tree gtdb kraken-ii genome k-mer genome-skim organelle

• 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