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).

• Betacoronavirus-specific alternate splicing.

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

  Has reproduction · 100

  Genes differentially spliced during SARS-CoV-2 infection show a similar functional (GO) profile to those differentially spliced in SARS-CoV and MERS infection, affecting a diverse set of genes tied to virus biology.

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• eVITTA: a web-based visualization and inference toolbox for transcriptome analysis.

  PMID 34019643 · PMC8218201 · Nucleic acids research · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 82

  eVITTA is a web-based toolbox with three integrated modules (easyGEO, easyGSEA, easyVizR) for GEO data access, functional profiling, and multi-dataset comparison

  nasopharyngeal elegans bulk pre-ranked microarray

• Transcriptome and machine learning analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on mitochondria and multiorgan damage.

  PMID 38295140 · PMC10830027 · PloS one · 2024 · 6 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 71

  Potential cardiac, hepatic, and renal impairments in COVID-19 are associated with ACE2, inflammatory cytokine storms, and mitochondrial pathways.

  nasopharyngeal heart leukocytes blood bulk pathway machine

• 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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• In vivo antiviral host transcriptional response to SARS-CoV-2 by viral load, sex, and age.

  PMID 32898168 · PMC7478592 · PLoS biology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 89

  SARS-CoV-2 infection induces a strong interferon-driven antiviral response in the nasopharynx, with up-regulation of viral sensors, T cell/NK chemokines, and antiviral effectors

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• Adaptive learning embedding features to improve the predictive performance of SARS-CoV-2 phosphorylation sites.

  PMID 37847658 · PMC10628388 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2023 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  PSPred-ALE outperforms state-of-the-art SARS-CoV-2 phosphorylation site predictors (e.g. DeepIPs) and handcrafted feature-based methods in benchmarking comparisons

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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 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 71

  CAI is positively correlated with translational efficiency, validating its use as a proxy for translational efficiency at the elongation level.

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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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• Identifying COVID-19-Specific Transcriptomic Biomarkers with Machine Learning Methods.

  PMID 34307679 · PMC8272456 · BioMed research international · 2021 · 7 claims · 2 setups

  Has reproduction · 32

  A pipeline combining Boruta and mRMR feature selection with incremental feature selection (IFS) was used to identify COVID-19-specific transcriptomic biomarkers from blood gene expression data.

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• Severe COVID-19 Shares a Common Neutrophil Activation Signature with Other Acute Inflammatory States.

  PMID 35269470 · PMC8909161 · Cells · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 88

  COVID-19 and HLH share a transcriptional overlap of 239 unique common differentially expressed genes (DEGs), 237 of which are up-regulated

  patients pbmcs plasma derived bulk single-cell quantitative

• COVID-19 vaccination atlas using an integrative systems vaccinology approach.

  PMID 40456760 · PMC12130191 · NPJ vaccines · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 69

  mRNA vaccines induce transient but strong immune responses after booster doses

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• Deleterious Effects of SARS-CoV-2 Infection on Human Pancreatic Cells.

  PMID 34282405 · PMC8285288 · Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  iPSC-derived pancreatic endocrine and exocrine (acinar/ductal) cultures express ACE2 and TMPRSS2, enabling SARS-CoV-2 entry

  ipsc-derived post-mortem vero-e6 immunofluorescence sars-cov-2 rt-qpcr

• COVID-19 lung disease shares driver AT2 cytopathic features with Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

  PMID 35870428 · PMC9297827 · EBioMedicine · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  COVID-19 lung disease resembles IPF at a fundamental level, recapitulating ViP/IPF gene expression patterns, an IL15-centric cytokine storm, and AT2 cytopathic changes (injury, DNA damage, transient progenitor-state arrest, senescence/SASP).

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• Discovery of key regulators in classical monocyte phenotypes linked to COVID-19 severity using single-cell multi-omics sequencing.

  PMID 41732268 · PMC12925236 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Two severity-associated classical monocyte (cMono) subtypes, IL7R+ and CD163+, exist with distinct transcriptional and epigenetic landscapes.

  pbmcs pbmc classical cmono single-nucleus differential multimodal