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).

• Harvesting more reads from single-cell combinatorial barcoding data with scarecrow.

  PMID 41967853 · PMC13125751 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 3 setups

  Full-text index only

  scarecrow screens a subsample of reads to generate position-specific barcode profiles, then flexibly identifies barcode sequences in reads while accounting for positional jitter

  pbmc scrna-seq single-cell

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

  PMID 37907883 · PMC10619225 · BMC medical genomics · 2023 · 6 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  Removal of batch effects in reference scRNA-seq datasets (via Harmony-Symphony) benefits the task of cell composition deconvolution

  pbmc derived tcga-lihc scrna-seq simulated bulk

• PreTSA: computationally efficient modeling of temporal and spatial gene expression patterns.

  PMID 41673899 · PMC12998178 · Genome biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Full-text index only

  PreTSA dramatically reduces computational time and memory versus GAM (Monocle, TSCAN) and PseudotimeDE for identifying temporally variable genes (TVGs) while producing highly similar results

  simulated null pbmc pancreas pseudotime tvg false-positive

• An AI-Enabled Single-Cell Transcriptomic Analysis Pipeline for Gene Signature Discovery in Natural Killer Cells Linked to Remission Outcomes in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia.

  PMID 41972591 · PMC13072394 · Biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Full-text index only

  GAFA integrates latent-space representation, pseudotime trajectory modeling, GRN inference, and machine learning-based gene panel discovery into a single coherent pipeline, unlike existing workflows that treat these steps independently.

  peripheral subset immune assigned scrna-seq latent-space automated

• Cell type-specific eQTL analysis of COVID-19 based on single-cell transcriptomic data.

  PMID 41064594 · PMC12501775 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 51

  Single-cell eQTL analysis across eight immune cell types identified 2593 genes whose expression is significantly associated with common genetic polymorphisms, with most genes showing cell type-specific effects

  pbmcs eight pbmc monocytes scrna-seq genetic cis-eqtl

• 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

  Full-text index only

  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

• omnideconv: a unifying framework for using and benchmarking single-cell-informed deconvolution of bulk RNA-seq data.

  PMID 41582216 · PMC12837286 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Full-text index only

  omnideconv is an R package providing a unified interface to twelve second-generation deconvolution methods (AutoGeneS, BayesPrism, Bseq-SC, Bisque, CDseq, CIBERSORTx, CPM, DWLS, MOMF, MuSiC, SCDC, Scaden)

  blood-derived pbmc blood spleen bulk scrna-seq pseudo-bulk

• Comprehensive cellular analysis with single-nucleus RNA-seq of archived PAXgene whole blood samples.

  PMID 41844163 · PMC13030975 · Cell reports methods · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Full-text index only

  Cell lysis (CL) nuclei isolation yields substantially more nuclei and less biased immune cell proportions than mechanical separation (MS)

  frozen paxgene cl-derived thawed single-nucleus confocal brightfield

• PURE-seq integrates FACS and PIP-seq for single-cell genomics of ultra-rare cells.

  PMID 41565684 · PMC12881479 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Full-text index only

  PURE-seq integrates FACS sorting directly into PIP-seq barcoding reaction tubes, minimizing manual handling and cell loss for rare-cell single-cell sequencing.

  hek293t pbmcs melanoma bone single-cell infercnv gene

• ScLRTC: imputation for single-cell RNA-seq data via low-rank tensor completion.

  PMID 34844559 · PMC8628418 · BMC genomics · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  scLRTC imputes dropout entries closest to the original expression values on simulated datasets, outperforming other state-of-the-art methods by SSE and PCC.

  usoskin pollen zeisel yan scrna-seq umap masking

• Deep-Learning Tool ScVital Enables Species-Agnostic Integration of Cancer Cell States.

  PMID 41223329 · PMC13053053 · Cancer research · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Full-text index only

  scVital is a variational autoencoder with an adversarially trained discriminator that embeds scRNA-seq data from different species into a species-agnostic latent space to overcome batch effect.

  pbmc normal pancreatic lung scrna-seq

• CellPredX, a computational framework for cross-data type, cross-sample, and cross-protocol cell type annotation through domain adaptation and deep metric learning.

  PMID 41481570 · PMC12758788 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Full-text index only

  CellPredX is a unified semi-supervised framework integrating domain adaptation and deep metric learning to align heterogeneous embeddings for cross-modality cell type annotation.

  pbmc fetal pancreas gse149683 matched unmatched cross-protocol

• Robust and efficient annotation of cell states through gene signature scoring.

  PMID 41708334 · PMC12951948 · Genome research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Full-text index only

  Established scoring methods (Seurat, SCANPY, UCell, JASMINE) fail to provide robust and comparable score distributions across diverse signatures and experimental conditions, precluding accurate unsupervised cell-state annotation.

  pbmc colorectal esophageal crc scrna-seq cross-implementation signature

• Scalable cell-specific coexpression networks for granular regulatory pattern discovery with NeighbourNet.

  PMID 41786602 · PMC13138013 · Genome research · 2026 · 7 claims · 5 setups

  Full-text index only

  NNet uses PCA embedding followed by local KNN regression in PC space to construct cell-specific coexpression networks (CSNs), improving computational efficiency and estimate stability versus pairwise approaches.

  pbmc thp-1 lin small scrna-seq perturb-seq

• Deconvolving cell-type-specific gene expression profiles from bulk RNA-seq samples.

  PMID 41886524 · PMC13038110 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Full-text index only

  BLUE, a U-Net-based deep learning model with dual branches (U-Net for GEPs, MLP for proportions), accurately predicts cell-type proportions and cell-type-specific gene expression profiles from bulk RNA-seq.

  pbmc pancreatic aml scrna-seq-derived real scrna-seq

• Cell-type annotation with accurate unseen cell-type identification using multiple references.

  PMID 37379341 · PMC10335708 · PLoS computational biology · 2023 · 8 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 68

  mtANN integrates multiple reference datasets and eight gene selection methods via ensemble learning (multiple deep classification models + majority voting) to improve cell-type annotation accuracy

  pbmc pancreas covid-19 scrna-seq

• Hierarchical cell-type identifier accurately distinguishes immune-cell subtypes enabling precise profiling of tissue microenvironment with single-cell RNA-sequencing.

  PMID 36681937 · PMC10025442 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 94

  HiCAT is a hierarchical, marker-based cell-type identifier that uses gene set analysis (GSA) scoring with markers structured in a three-level taxonomy tree (major-type, minor-type, subset)

  pbmc cord melanoma lung scrna-seq computational

• 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

• Bridging unpaired single-cell multimodal data for integrative analyses with SuperMap.

  PMID 41650244 · PMC12890892 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Full-text index only

  SuperMap learns cross-modal feature mappings directly from unpaired multimodal data without requiring paired training data

  pbmc bone skin embryos scrna-seq scnmt-seq asap-seq

• scDenorm: a denormalization tool for integrating single-cell transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41915012 · PMC13142155 · GigaScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Full-text index only

  Inconsistent delta-method normalization across datasets introduces biases (e.g., B-cell separation) that persist even after integration with Harmony, scanorama, or BBKNN.

  10x brain ucsc datasets scrna-seq integration snrna-seq