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).

• Dental Plaque Microbial Resistomes of Periodontal Health and Disease and Their Changes after Scaling and Root Planing Therapy.

  PMID 34287005 · PMC8386447 · mSphere · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 76

  Periodontitis significantly alters dental plaque microbial community diversity and structure compared to healthy and treated states

  dental metagenomic taxonomic arg

• Determining virus-host interactions and glycerol metabolism profiles in geographically diverse solar salterns with metagenomics.

  PMID 28097058 · PMC5228507 · PeerJ · 2017 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 95

  Similar virus-host interactions and glycerol metabolism gene associations (notably dihydroxyacetone kinase with Haloquadratum/Halorubrum) exist across geographically diverse solar salterns

  solar saltern combined individual metagenomic taxonomic functional

• Metagenomic analysis of respiratory tract DNA viral communities in cystic fibrosis and non-cystic fibrosis individuals.

  PMID 19816605 · PMC2756586 · PloS one · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CF phage communities are highly similar to each other, whereas Non-CF individuals have more distinct, variable phage communities reflecting transient environmental sampling

  sputum phage metagenomes inferred metagenomic functional diversity

• Detection of Virus-Related Sequences Associated With Potential Etiologies of Hepatitis in Liver Tissue Samples From Rats, Mice, Shrews, and Bats.

  PMID 34177835 · PMC8221242 · Frontiers in microbiology · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 79

  Viral metagenomics of liver tissue from rats, mice, shrews, and bats revealed a diverse set of sequences related to herpesviruses, orthomyxoviruses, anelloviruses, hepeviruses, hepadnaviruses, flaviviruses, parvoviruses, and picornaviruses

  pooled individual liver serum viral pcr strand-specific

• RiboTaxa: combined approaches for rRNA genes taxonomic resolution down to the species level from metagenomics data revealing novelties.

  PMID 36159175 · PMC9492272 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 66

  RiboTaxa, combining BBTools, FastQC, SortMeRNA, MetaRib, EMIRGE, VSEARCH, BBMap and QIIME 2's Sklearn classifier, was built as a pipeline for SSU rRNA-based taxonomic profiling of metagenomics data.

  microbial reconstructed synthetic real shotgun ssu full-length

• High-resolution metagenomic reconstruction of the freshwater spring bloom.

  PMID 36698172 · PMC9878933 · Microbiome · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 69

  High-frequency metagenomic sampling (57 samples, 3 filter sizes, 2 depths, 37 days) recovers thousands of prokaryotic, eukaryotic, and viral genomes tracking spring bloom succession in fine detail

  freshwater phytoplankton heterotrophic reservoir 16s 18s shotgun

• metaGEM: reconstruction of genome scale metabolic models directly from metagenomes.

  PMID 34614189 · PMC8643649 · Nucleic acids research · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 64

  metaGEM enables end-to-end reconstruction of FBA-ready GEMs directly from metagenomes without relying on reference genomes

  metagenomic prokaryotic reconstructed gut mag genome-scale gem

• 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

  river edna extracted raw edna concentration quantitative

• geneshot: gene-level metagenomics identifies genome islands associated with immunotherapy response.

  PMID 33952321 · PMC8097837 · Genome biology · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 75

  geneshot identifies microbial genomic islands consistently associated with ICI response across independent cohorts

  stool deduplicated cag reference gene-level novo co-abundance

• 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

  Has reproduction · 67

  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

• Functional differentiation determines the molecular basis of the symbiotic lifestyle of Ca. Nanohaloarchaeota.

  PMID 36242054 · PMC9563170 · Microbiome · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 99

  Three MAGs from a stratified salt crust represent a novel order, Nucleotidisoterales, within Ca. Nanohaloarchaeota

  stratified salt nanohaloarchaeota reconstructed 16s metagenomic phylogenomic

• A case study for large-scale human microbiome analysis using JCVI's metagenomics reports (METAREP).

  PMID 22719821 · PMC3374610 · PloS one · 2012 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 78

  METAREP version 1.3.1 is an open-source, scalable tool for querying, browsing and comparing extremely large volumes of metagenomic annotations, with an extended data model, dynamic weighting, distributed searches and advanced clustering.

  microbiome pooled hmp metarep genome assembly-based enzymatic

• Massively parallel pyrosequencing in HIV research.

  PMID 18614863 · PMC4221253 · AIDS (London, England) · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Massively parallel pyrosequencing platforms (454/Roche, Solexa/Illumina) enable very high-throughput DNA sequencing, up to ~1 billion bases per run

  mammoth hiv hiv-infected honey pyrosequencing pcr 16s

• The effect of diet on the human gut microbiome: a metagenomic analysis in humanized gnotobiotic mice.

  PMID 20368178 · PMC2894525 · Science translational medicine · 2009 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Germ-free C57BL/6J mice can be stably and heritably colonized with a human fecal microbiota, reproducing much of the donor's bacterial diversity.

  fecal postnatal luminal pooled 16s shotgun body

• Evaluation of the bacterial diversity among and within individual venous leg ulcers using bacterial tag-encoded FLX and titanium amplicon pyrosequencing and metagenomic approaches.

  PMID 19860898 · PMC2773781 · BMC microbiology · 2009 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  VLU infections are polymicrobial with no single bacterium colonizing the wounds

  individual pooled second btefap quantitative bulk

• On the holobiont 'predictome' of immunocompetence in pigs.

  PMID 37127575 · PMC10150480 · Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 40

  Holobiont (combined genotype + microbiome) models performed better than partial models (genotype-only or microbiome-only) overall

  duroc fecal plasma serum snp 16s immunoglobulin

• SnakeMAGs: a simple, efficient, flexible and scalable workflow to reconstruct prokaryotic genomes from metagenomes.

  PMID 36875992 · PMC9978240 · F1000Research · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  SnakeMAGs is a simple, efficient, flexible and scalable Snakemake workflow that processes Illumina reads from raw data to MAG classification and relative abundance estimation

  publicly bins quality-filtered assembled workflow genome megahit

• Discovering the phylodynamics of RNA viruses.

  PMID 19855824 · PMC2756585 · PLoS computational biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A comprehensive 'discovery phase' integrating ecological and evolutionary dynamics of RNA viruses across scales is needed to achieve a full phylodynamic understanding

  h3n2 influenza avian foot-and-mouth bayesian phylogenetic whole-genome

• Thermophilic and mesophilic sulfate reduction by rare biosphere bacteria in acidic metal-bearing mine wastes from the temperate climate zone.

  PMID 41345487 · PMC12739157 · Scientific reports · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 52

  Sulfate reduction rates (SRR) at in-situ ambient temperature in acidic Bom-Gorkhon tailings sediments are unexpectedly high, up to 9.86 µmol SO4 cm-3 day-1.

  acidic water bu28s pure radioactive 16s shotgun

• Microbial sulfate reduction by Desulfovibrio is an important source of hydrogen sulfide from a large swine finishing facility.

  PMID 34021225 · PMC8140134 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 70

  Sulfate-reducing Desulfovibrio are the key players responsible for H2S production in swine manure slurry

  manure sediment desulfovibrio solid-liquid radioactive 16s shotgun