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).

• Single-cell RNA-sequencing highlights a curtailed NK cell function in convalescent COVID-19 pregnant women.

  PMID 40661959 · PMC12257036 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 7 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 87

  NK cells show a sustained reduction during active SARS-CoV-2 infection and persisting after recovery in pregnant women

  pbmcs serum 14-color single-cell 13-plex

• 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.

  mrc5 calu-3 nasal lung bulk

• Inference of SARS-CoV-2 exposure biomarkers using large-scale T-cell repertoire profiling.

  PMID 41680899 · PMC12903587 · Genome medicine · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  A novel batch-effect correction method (log-normal gene usage modeling, Z-score normalization, and roulette-wheel resampling) allows combining AIRR-seq data from different batches and protocols.

  blood peripheral batch-corrected airr-seq airr-seq hla tcrβ

• 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

  nasopharyngeal airway patient-matched swab shotgun gsea biological

• 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

• Intra-Host Co-Existing Strains of SARS-CoV-2 Reference Genome Uncovered by Exhaustive Computational Search.

  PMID 37243151 · PMC10224212 · Viruses · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 100

  An exhaustive-search workflow can recover intra-host co-existing SARS-CoV-2 strains from the reference-genome read set (SRR11092062) that de Bruijn-graph assemblers discard.

  sars-cov-2 spike predicted california short-read read sequence

• Profiling Selective Packaging of Host RNA and Viral RNA Modification in SARS-CoV-2 Viral Preparations.

  PMID 35186917 · PMC8851031 · Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 3 setups

  Has reproduction · 56

  SARS-CoV-2 viral preparations show selective enrichment of specific host tRNAs, tRNA fragments, and SRP RNA compared to uninfected VeroE6 cells

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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

  a549 sequence same bulk pathway gene

• The SARS-CoV-2 subgenome landscape and its novel regulatory features.

  PMID 33713597 · PMC7927579 · Molecular cell · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 84

  Template switching in SARS-CoV-2 can occur bidirectionally, generating diverse subgenomes through successive template-switching events

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• Discovery and functional interrogation of SARS-CoV-2 RNA-host protein interactions.

  PMID 33743211 · PMC7951565 · Cell · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 84

  ChIRP-MS of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in infected Huh7.5 and Vero E6 cells identifies a comprehensive set of 309 host proteins that bind the viral RNA during active infection

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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.

  unstimulated cd4+ kidney liver bulk single-cell

• Single-Cell Differential Network Analysis with Sparse Bayesian Factor Models.

  PMID 35186014 · PMC8855158 · Frontiers in genetics · 2021 · 8 claims · 2 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  A hierarchical Bayesian factor model using treatment-dependent latent factor loadings can construct gene co-expression networks from scRNA-seq data and identify differences in network structure between two (or more) biological conditions.

  simulated sars-cov-2 scrna-seq

• Exploring phenotype-related single-cells through attention-enhanced representation learning.

  PMID 41566378 · PMC12906058 · Genome medicine · 2026 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  scPhase, an attention-based multiple instance learning (AMIL) framework with Mixture-of-Experts aggregation, predicts sample-level clinical phenotypes from raw scRNA-seq data and generalizes across patient cohorts

  pbmcs brain tumor scrna-seq

• Single-Cell RNA-Seq Profiling of Transposable Element Expression in Human Peripheral Blood Cells During Viral Infections.

  PMID 41683713 · PMC12898442 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TE expression is significantly higher in PBMCs from viral infection cohorts (and recovered individuals) compared to healthy controls

  pbmcs pbmc cd8+ single-cell cell-type expression

• Aligned cross-modal integration and regulatory heterogeneity characterization of single-cell multiomic data with deep contrastive learning.

  PMID 41588477 · PMC12833949 · Genome medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  scMDCF outperforms existing state-of-the-art scMulti-omics integration and clustering models across various types of scMulti-omics datasets, including robustness against batch effects

  single immune dorsolateral cite-seq scrna-atac-seq snmulti-omics

• Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Engineered Human Tissues Using Clinical-Grade Soluble Human ACE2.

  PMID 32333836 · PMC7181998 · Cell · 2020 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 87

  Clinical-grade hrsACE2 significantly inhibits SARS-CoV-2 infection of Vero-E6 cells in a dose-dependent manner

  nasopharyngeal vero-e6 ipsc-derived embryonic viral qrt-pcr organoid

• Bioinformatics and system biology approaches to identify pathophysiological impact of COVID-19 to the progression and severity of neurological diseases.

  PMID 34601390 · PMC8483812 · Computers in biology and medicine · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 69

  COVID-19 and neurological diseases (NDs) share pathophysiological connections that influence disease progression and severity

  peripheral hippocampal spinal peritumoral microarray protein-protein

• 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

  nasopharyngeal same dygaf-ranked bulk differential random

• Meta-analysis of COVID-19 single-cell studies confirms eight key immune responses.

  PMID 34675242 · PMC8531356 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 69

  Only 8 of 20 previously published COVID-19 scRNA-seq findings were reproducible across all relevant datasets in a standardized meta-analysis

  pbmc bronchoalveolar nasopharyngeal combined scrna-seq tcr bcr