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).

• Manual curation for improved genome annotation of the functionally extinct northern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni).

  PMID 41490125 · PMC12768360 · PloS one · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 69

  Manual curation of RNA-seq-derived de novo transcripts increased the number of functional genes in the NWR annotation by 81% (from 8,701 to 15,738).

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• Macrophages on the run: Exercise balances macrophage polarization for improved health.

  PMID 39476967 · PMC11585839 · Molecular metabolism · 2024 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 81

  Immediate/acute exercise triggers an M1 (pro-inflammatory) macrophage polarization surge.

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• Betacoronavirus-specific alternate splicing.

  PMID 35074468 · PMC8782732 · Genomics · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 100

  Genes showing differential alternative splicing in SARS-CoV-2 have a similar functional profile to those in SARS-CoV and MERS, affecting a diverse set of genes and biological functions related to virus biology.

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• N6-methyladenosine (m6A) reader Pho92 is recruited co-transcriptionally and couples translation to mRNA decay to promote meiotic fitness in yeast.

  PMID 36422864 · PMC9731578 · eLife · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 55

  Pho92 specifically binds m6A-modified RNA via its YTH domain, both in vitro and in vivo

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• 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.

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• Identification of Novel Therapeutic Candidates Against SARS-CoV-2 Infections: An Application of RNA Sequencing Toward mRNA Based Nanotherapeutics.

  PMID 35983322 · PMC9378778 · Frontiers in microbiology · 2022 · 6 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 75

  RPL29 (60S ribosomal protein L29) is highly/consistently expressed across all COVID-19 infected groups regardless of severity, suggesting it as a novel host therapeutic target for mRNA-based nanomedicines.

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

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

  Has reproduction · 67

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

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• E3RC: A step-by-step computational protocol for exploring enhancer RNA expression and regulation using conventional RNA-seq data.

  PMID 40716058 · PMC12318280 · STAR protocols · 2025 · 6 claims · 3 setups

  Has reproduction · 62

  E3RC is a computational framework for identifying and quantifying eRNAs and characterizing their expression and transcriptional regulation using conventional RNA-seq data.

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• Utilizing the codon adaptation index to evaluate the susceptibility to HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses in possible target cells in humans.

  PMID 36760235 · PMC9905242 · Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 71

  CAI is positively correlated with translational efficiency, supporting its use as a proxy for viral mRNA translation in cell types.

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• Pre-implantation embryo metabolism identified by PEMA reveals endogenous lactate insufficiency contributes to pre-implantation development arrest.

  PMID 42272466 · PMC13247451 · Fundamental research · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction

  PEMA, a Ribo-seq-weighted computational framework, characterizes metabolic states of human and mouse pre-implantation embryos more accurately than Compass

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• Application of Machine Learning in Predicting Hepatic Metastasis or Primary Site in Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors.

  PMID 37887568 · PMC10605255 · Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 59

  Multi-gene random forest models classify primary tumor vs. liver metastasis samples with 100% accuracy in training/test cohorts and >90% accuracy in an independent validation cohort

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• SPEAQeasy: a scalable pipeline for expression analysis and quantification for R/bioconductor-powered RNA-seq analyses.

  PMID 33932985 · PMC8088074 · BMC bioinformatics · 2021 · 8 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 65

  SPEAQeasy is a portable, easy-to-install, Nextflow-powered RNA-seq processing pipeline that lowers the computational entry barrier for biologists/clinicians

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• Requirements for Pseudomonas aeruginosa acute burn and chronic surgical wound infection.

  PMID 25057820 · PMC4109851 · PLoS genetics · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 78

  In vivo gene expression is generally not correlated with a gene's importance for fitness, with the exception of metabolic genes, for which differential expression is more predictive of fitness.

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• Activity of distinct growth factor receptor network components in breast tumors uncovers two biologically relevant subtypes.

  PMID 28446242 · PMC5406893 · Genome medicine · 2017 · 7 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 92

  Breast tumors exhibit two discrete GFRN activity phenotypes: a 'survival phenotype' with concordant HER2/IGF1R/AKT activation and a 'growth phenotype' with concordant EGFR/KRAS(G12V)/RAF1/BAD activation, which are typically mutually exclusive.

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• De Novo Assembly and Annotation of the Larval Transcriptome of Two Spadefoot Toads Widely Divergent in Developmental Rate.

  PMID 31217263 · PMC6686947 · G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 91

  De novo transcriptome assemblies were generated for larval P. cultripes and S. couchii, providing new genomic resources for spadefoot toads

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• A novel oxidative stress-related gene signature as an indicator of prognosis and immunotherapy responses in HNSCC.

  PMID 38157249 · PMC10781479 · Aging · 2023 · 6 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  A nine-gene oxidative stress-related scoring (OSRS) model (AREG, CES1, CSTA, FDCSP, JCHAIN, IFFO2, PGLYRP4, SPOCK2, SPINK6) predicts overall survival in HNSCC.

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• An individualized causal framework for learning intercellular communication networks that define microenvironments of individual tumors.

  PMID 36548438 · PMC9822106 · PLoS computational biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  An individualized causal analysis framework can discover tumor-specific intercellular communication networks (ICNs) from transcriptomic data

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• Dynamic Gene Attention Focus (DyGAF): Enhancing Biomarker Identification Through Dual-Model Attention Networks.

  PMID 40160891 · PMC11951896 · Bioinformatics and biology insights · 2025 · 6 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 44

  DyGAF, a dual-model attention neural network (independent Model A + dependent Model B), identifies and ranks genes by significance for COVID-19 biomarker discovery more effectively than differential expression analysis (DEA) and random forest (RF) feature selection

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• Integrated multi-omics analysis combined with clinical validation reveals that HLA-DRB5 and ODAPH are causal risk genes for keratoconus.

  PMID 41803193 · PMC13179358 · Scientific reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 64

  HLA-DRB5 and ODAPH are causal risk genes for keratoconus, supported by SMR and Bayesian colocalization (HLA-DRB5 PP4=0.844, SMR p=0.001, OR=1.768; ODAPH PP4=1.0, SMR p=0.013, OR=202.851).

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• transXpress: a Snakemake pipeline for streamlined de novo transcriptome assembly and annotation.

  PMID 37016291 · PMC10074830 · BMC bioinformatics · 2023 · 6 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 95

  transXpress is a Snakemake pipeline that streamlines de novo transcriptome assembly, quantification, and annotation for non-model organisms

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