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).

• CLIMB-COVID: continuous integration supporting decentralised sequencing for SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance.

  PMID 34210356 · PMC8247108 · Genome biology · 2021 · 7 claims · 2 setups

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  A centralised hub model built on the CLIMB compute infrastructure (CLIMB-COVID) can integrate SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequencing data and sample metadata from a decentralised, autonomous network of sequencing sites into a single canonical dataset.

  sars-cov-2 whole-genome pcr

• poreCov-An Easy to Use, Fast, and Robust Workflow for SARS-CoV-2 Genome Reconstruction via Nanopore Sequencing.

  PMID 34394197 · PMC8355734 · Frontiers in genetics · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 100

  poreCov is an easy-to-use, fast, and robust Nextflow-based workflow for reference-based SARS-CoV-2 genome reconstruction and lineage determination from nanopore sequencing data

  porecov sars-cov-2 nanopore fastq gisaid workflow real-world

• Virus variant quantification with Orthanq.

  PMID 41639627 · PMC12930645 · BMC bioinformatics · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Orthanq performs identification and uncertainty-aware quantification of known virus variants of any virus species, including in samples with mixed infections

  simulated real mixture sequencing sequencing-based pangenome variant

• 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

• Optimizing data-driven excellence: Canada's approach to using pathogen test datasets for quality control, pipeline development and training initiatives.

  PMID 41591806 · PMC12847982 · Microbial genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Standardized SARS-CoV-2 test datasets (Illumina and Nanopore) were developed as benchmarks for validating sequencing/bioinformatics pipelines across Canadian public health labs

  sars-cov-2 extracted nasopharyngeal bioinformatic whole-genome triplex extraction

• EDGE COVID-19: a web platform to generate submission-ready genomes from SARS-CoV-2 sequencing efforts.

  PMID 35561186 · PMC9113274 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2022 · 7 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 49

  EDGE COVID-19 (EC-19) is a web-based platform that automates QC, reference-based variant/consensus calling, lineage determination, and submission of SARS-CoV-2 genomes and metadata to GenBank, GISAID and INSDC for both Illumina and ONT data.

  sars-cov-2 srr illumina ont amplicon lineage cross-workflow

• 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.

  pbmcs pbmc aligned bulk read transcript

• Performance of methods for SARS-CoV-2 variant detection and abundance estimation within mixed population samples.

  PMID 36721781 · PMC9884472 · PeerJ · 2023 · 8 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 50

  Kallisto was the most accurate VCE on simulated data, having the lowest RRMSE, followed by Freyja

  sars-cov-2 publicly simulated simulated amplicon-based variant

• WEPP: Phylogenetic placement achieves near-haplotype resolution in wastewater-based epidemiology.

  PMID 41911220 · PMC13048486 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  WEPP is a pathogen-agnostic pipeline that uses phylogenetic placement of sequencing reads onto mutation-annotated trees (MATs) to identify candidate haplotypes and estimate their abundances

  sars-cov-2 mutation-annotated simulated synthetic real-world

• Addressing pandemic-wide systematic errors in the SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny.

  PMID 41663577 · PMC12982125 · Nature methods · 2026 · 6 claims · 3 setups

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  Most SARS-CoV-2 genomes were sequenced using tiled amplicon methods, which introduce systematic errors unless assembly software is aware of the amplicon scheme and the error modes of amplicon sequencing

  sars-cov-2 amplicon-aware simulation global

• Methylation patterns of the nasal epigenome of hospitalized SARS-CoV-2 positive patients reveal insights into molecular mechanisms of COVID-19.

  PMID 40170038 · PMC11963311 · BMC medical genomics · 2025 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction

  Differential DNA methylation occurs predominantly in intergenic regions and low methylated regions (LMRs), highlighting the role of distal regulatory elements in COVID-19 severity.

  nasal aggregated genes differentially whole-genome methylation tiling

• 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

• Long-Read RNA Sequencing Identifies Polyadenylation Elongation and Differential Transcript Usage of Host Transcripts During SARS-CoV-2 In Vitro Infection.

  PMID 35464437 · PMC9019466 · Frontiers in immunology · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 90

  Differential polyadenylation occurs in infected Calu-3 and Vero cells at a late time point (48 hpi)

  vero calu-3 genes direct pcr poly

• 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

• Integration of bioinformatic tools for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 co-infection cases.

  PMID 41609640 · PMC12856159 · Microbial genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Sample PH-RITM-1395 represents a Delta–Omicron co-infection, confirmed by convergent evidence from Nextclade, bammix, Freyja, VirStrain, AAF analysis and amplicon sorting rather than contamination

  consensus aligned raw bam nextclade nucleotide strain-level

• The genomic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineages collected during routine sentinel surveillance in Tanzania between November 2022 and July 2023.

  PMID 41688918 · PMC13011721 · BMC genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Seven Omicron Nextstrain clades were identified among Tanzanian sequences, with clades 22F (XBB*) and 22E (BQ.1) predominant, comprising 56.3% and 21.35% of samples respectively

  nasal sars-cov-2-positive multiplexed tanzanian rt-qpcr whole-genome bioinformatic

• Comprehensive characterization of the antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein finds additional vaccine-induced epitopes beyond those for mild infection.

  PMID 35072628 · PMC8887901 · eLife · 2022 · 8 claims · 3 setups

  Has reproduction · 57

  mRNA vaccination induces antibody binding to additional Spike epitopes (NTD and CTD in S1) beyond those seen after mild infection (FP and SH-H in S2)

  serum combined phage-dms principal

• 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

• Artificial Intelligence Approach in Machine Learning-Based Modeling and Networking of the Coronavirus Pathogenesis Pathway.

  PMID 40699865 · PMC12191508 · Current issues in molecular biology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction

  The coronavirus pathogenesis pathway is activated in SARS-CoV-2-infected iPSC-derived cardiac cells and in SARS-CoV/SARS-CoV-2-infected LUAD cells

  ace2-transfected calu-3 luad ipsc-derived ipa sequencing convolutional

• Umi-pipeline-nf: a modular and scalable workflow for UMI-tagged nanopore amplicon analysis with real-time sequencing integration and GPU-acceleration.

  PMID 41923360 · PMC13070649 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  umi-pipeline-nf is a portable, fully containerized, modular Nextflow DSL2 workflow that generates single-molecule consensus sequences from UMI-tagged nanopore amplicon data and scales linearly from single samples to large cohorts.

  lpa zymo sars-cov-2 nanopore real-time umi