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).

• CanSig Benchmarks Methods for Reproducible Cancer Cell State Discovery from Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data.

  PMID 41231245 · PMC13053056 · Cancer research · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  CanSig is a comprehensive benchmarking tool for evaluating computational methods that identify shared transcriptional signatures in cancer from scRNA-seq data

  neftel kim scrna-seq same scrna-seq ground-truth robustness

• Evaluating deconvolution methods using real bulk RNA-expression data for robust prognostic insights across cancer types.

  PMID 41566530 · PMC12906006 · Genome biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Pseudobulk and real bulk RNA-seq deconvolution performance differ significantly, and method ranking consistency is lower between pseudobulk and real bulk than within either data type alone

  breast real colon tcga paired pseudobulk bulk

• scSurvival: Single-Cell Survival Analysis of Clinical Cancer Cohort Data at Cellular Resolution.

  PMID 42013315 · PMC13133615 · Cancer discovery · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  scSurvival, an attention-based multiple-instance Cox regression framework, models each tumor sample as an ensemble of cells to predict survival outcomes at both patient and single-cell levels

  simulated melanoma liver higher scrna-seq differential

• A pan-cancer single cell landscape reveals heterogeneity and functional diversity of double-negative T cells.

  PMID 41484771 · PMC12882460 · Molecular cancer · 2026 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Integration of pan-cancer scRNA-seq data yields a comprehensive single-cell atlas of 157,025 high-quality DNT cells across 23 cancer types.

  tumor dnt ffpe mc38 scrna-seq tcr multiplex

• transFusion: a novel comprehensive platform for integration analysis of single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

  PMID 41645434 · PMC12930851 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  transFusion is a comprehensive, web-based platform for integrated analysis of scRNA-seq and 10x Visium spatial transcriptomics data requiring no parameter configuration

  breast scrna-seq 10x cellphonedb

• PRDM1 Is Associated with Chemoradiotherapy-Associated Enrichment of Adaptive NK Cells in Cervical Cancer.

  PMID 42110212 · PMC13150072 · Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CRT enriches adaptive NK (aNK) cells within the cervical cancer immune microenvironment, with enrichment apparent after the first fraction and persisting after the second

  cervical subclusters ank overlapping single-cell cluster differential

• Enhancing cell subpopulation discovery in cancer by integrating single-cell transcriptome and expressed variants.

  PMID 41647537 · PMC12869734 · Fundamental research · 2026 · 6 claims · 3 setups

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  scCluster, an end-to-end deep clustering model integrating gene expression and expressed variant (eSNP) features, stratifies cell subpopulations in cancer scRNA-seq data.

  raw real-world expressed gene deep

• Genetic demultiplexing of pooled single-cell RNA-sequencing samples in cancer facilitates effective experimental design.

  PMID 34553212 · PMC8458035 · GigaScience · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Genetic variation-based demultiplexing tools can be effectively deployed on pooled scRNA-seq experimental designs in cancer tissue (HGSOC and lung adenocarcinoma) despite somatic variation.

  hgsoc lung healthy scrna-seq bulk downstream

• Therapeutic Targeting of Oxidative Phosphorylation in Microsatellite Instability-High Gastric Cancer.

  PMID 42038020 · PMC13104725 · Journal of Cancer · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  MSI gastric cancer samples show significantly greater T cell infiltration and a lower proportion of epithelial cells compared to GS samples

  gastric epithelial stomach nod-scid single-cell cnv differential

• Single-cell omics data-driven decoding of tumor clonal evolution through reinforcement learning.

  PMID 41998716 · PMC13224513 · Genome medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  scRevol is an RL-based model that infers tumor clonal evolution from scRNA-seq-derived CNV profiles via a label assignment learning strategy.

  simulated lineage ovarian scrna-seq-derived

• SpaNiche: spatial niche analysis to explore colocalization patterns and cellular interactions in spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 42015285 · PMC13231777 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  SpaNiche integrates smoothed cell-type abundance and ligand-receptor expression matrices via graph-regularized joint NMF, across multiple spatial views, to identify colocalization patterns

  lymph colorectal prostate cerebral simulated spatial scrna-seq

• Spatial multi-omics identifies a NOTCH3-mediated capillary-mCAF crosstalk driving immune exclusion in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 42099451 · PMC13147954 · iMeta · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A high-resolution spatial multi-omics atlas of HCC (CosMx transcriptomics + GeoMx proteomics + pan-cancer scRNA-seq of CAFs under ICB) reveals coordinated cellular topography of the tumor microenvironment

  hcc cafs independent spontaneous spatial pan-cancer multiplex

• Atlas-guided discovery of transcription factors for T cell programming.

  PMID 41639465 · PMC13017511 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A multi-omics atlas (Taiji pipeline) integrating RNA-seq and ATAC-seq across nine CD8+ T cell states can predict TF activity and identify state-selective versus multi-state TFs

  cd8+ lcmv p14 c57bl rna-seq pearson crispr

• Characterizing Neutrophil Subtypes in Cancer Using scRNA Sequencing Demonstrates the Importance of IL1β/CXCR2 Axis in Generation of Metastasis-specific Neutrophils.

  PMID 38358352 · PMC10903300 · Cancer research communications · 2024 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Two main neutrophil subtypes exist in primary tumors: an activated subtype sharing transcriptomic signatures with healthy neutrophils, and a tumor-specific subtype.

  colorectal sorted integrated neutrophil scrna-seq bulk immunohistochemistry

• scComm: a contrastive learning framework for deciphering cell-cell communications at single-cell resolution.

  PMID 41877186 · PMC13134144 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  scComm infers cell-cell communications at single-cell resolution using a data-adaptive L-R weighting module and supervised contrastive learning (SupCon loss) to distinguish significant CCC events from background noise

  simulated spatial liver single-cell simulated spatial scrna-seq

• Single-Cell Analysis Reveals Characterization of Infiltrating T Cells in Moderately Differentiated Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 33584715 · PMC7873865 · Frontiers in immunology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Eight distinct T cell populations can be identified from CRC tumor tissue by unsupervised clustering of scRNA-seq data

  tumor-infiltrating peripheral cd4+ tumor single-cell unsupervised pearson

• AGPAT3 reshapes tumor cell vulnerability to IFNγ-mediated ferroptosis and enhances immunotherapy efficacy through lipid remodeling.

  PMID 41807033 · PMC12983827 · Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A ferroptosis-driver gene signature (FD.sig) and machine learning model (FD.model) can predict ICI response

  pan-cancer tcga a375 machine single-cell bulk

• CanCellCap: robust cancer cell capture across tissue types on single-cell RNA-seq data by multi-domain learning.

  PMID 40739511 · PMC12312500 · BMC biology · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  CanCellCap identifies cancer cells in scRNA-seq data across 13 tissue types, 23 cancer types, and 7 sequencing platforms with 0.977 average accuracy

  cancer testing sequencing unseen scrna-seq spatial

• iBRIDGE: A Data Integration Method to Identify Inflamed Tumors from Single-cell RNA-Seq Data and Differentiate Cell Type-Specific Markers of Immune-Cell Infiltration.

  PMID 37023414 · PMC10236149 · Cancer immunology research · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Malignant cells cluster by patient in scRNA-seq data while immune and stromal cells cluster by cell type, making malignant cells uniquely suited to carry patient-level inflamed/cold signal

  nsclc coad brca tcga scrna-seq bulk rna-seq

• Pan-Cancer Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Analysis Refines Multi-Origin Monocyte and Macrophage Lineages.

  PMID 41231218 · PMC12865363 · Cancer immunology research · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  TAMs arise from two distinct origins: C1QC+ TAMs likely derive from resident tissue macrophages, while SPP1+ TAMs and ISG15+ TAMs likely originate from circulating monocytes.

  myeloid melanoma monocyte-to-macrophage coad-read scrna-seq differential developmental