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).

• A single-cell survey of Drosophila blood.

  PMID 32396065 · PMC7237219 · eLife · 2020 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 94

  scRNA-seq of Drosophila larval hemocytes across unwounded, wounded, and wasp-infested conditions resolves 17 clusters spanning plasmatocytes, crystal cells, lamellocytes, and a non-hemocyte population.

  drosophila single-cell quantitative bulk

• Creation of a Single Cell RNASeq Meta-Atlas to Define Human Liver Immune Homeostasis.

  PMID 34335581 · PMC8322955 · Frontiers in immunology · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 63

  Independent human liver immune scRNA-seq datasets can be combined into an integrated meta-atlas in which all datasets co-cluster, despite differing cell-type proportions between studies.

  liver combined normal differential scrna-seq integrated reference

• TGF-β-mediated activation of fibroblasts in cervical cancer: implications for tumor microenvironment and prognosis.

  PMID 40124621 · PMC11929507 · PeerJ · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 79

  TGF-β signaling pathway activity is significantly increased in fibroblasts from cervical cancer samples compared to normal samples and correlates with tumor proliferation and differentiation.

  cervical tcga-cesc hela scrna-seq scrna-seq wgcna cox

• CellFishing.jl: an ultrafast and scalable cell search method for single-cell RNA sequencing.

  PMID 30744683 · PMC6371477 · Genome biology · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 97

  CellFishing.jl searches prebuilt databases for cells with similar expression patterns with high accuracy and throughput using locality-sensitive hashing.

  baron2016 shekhar2016 plass2018 tabulamuris scrna-seq benchmarking self-mapping

• 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

• Single-Cell Transcriptome Profiling Reveals Multicellular Ecosystem of Nucleus Pulposus during Degeneration Progression.

  PMID 34825784 · PMC8787427 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 59

  Human NP contains six transcriptionally distinct NPC subpopulations: HT-CLNPs, effector NPCs, homeostatic NPCs, regulatory NPCs, fibroNPCs, and adhesion NPCs

  npcs scrna-seq-derived ht-clnp-i g-mdscs single-cell rt-qpcr immunohistochemistry

• 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

  Has reproduction · 64

  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

• 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

• Mouse-Geneformer: A deep learning model for mouse single-cell transcriptome and its cross-species utility.

  PMID 40106407 · PMC11964219 · PLoS genetics · 2025 · 7 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 95

  Mouse-Geneformer, a Transformer Encoder model pre-trained via masked-token self-supervised learning on mouse-Genecorpus-20M, was successfully constructed following the original human Geneformer architecture.

  healthy scrna-seq disease scrna-seq type perturbation

• Immunoregulatory Roles of Tumor-Originated Pericytes Identified by Single-Cell Analysis in Glioblastoma.

  PMID 41001759 · PMC12713092 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025 · 6 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction

  Human primary GBMs contain both tumor-originated pericytes (T-PCs) and normal-originated pericytes (N-PCs) with distinctive cell-intrinsic features.

  cd45-cd146+ dissociated frozen cd146+ scrna-seq fluorescence-activated immunofluorescence

• Macrophages on the run: Exercise balances macrophage polarization for improved health.

  PMID 39476967 · PMC11585839 · Molecular metabolism · 2024 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 81

  Immediate/acute exercise triggers an M1 (pro-inflammatory) macrophage polarization surge.

  gene affymetrix pooled muscle meta-analysis stepminer gene

• Research and experimental verification on the mechanisms of cellular senescence in triple-negative breast cancer.

  PMID 38435998 · PMC10909353 · PeerJ · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  TNBC can be classified into three molecular subtypes (clusters 1, 2, 3) based on cellular senescence-related pathways, with distinct prognoses (cluster 1 best, then 2, then 3).

  tnbc tcga-tnbc mda-mb-468 single-cell bulk copy

• A global database for modeling tumor-immune cell communication.

  PMID 37438390 · PMC10338499 · Scientific data · 2023 · 7 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 66

  TICCom integrates 739 experimentally-validated or manually-curated TIC interactions collected from more than 3,000 literatures

  pubmed scrna-seq tcga basal manual scrna-seq bulk

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

  PMID 34553212 · PMC8458035 · GigaScience · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 87

  Genetic variation–based demultiplexing tools can be effectively deployed on cancer scRNA-seq tissue using a pooled experimental design, achieving high recall at acceptable precision-recall tradeoffs in both high-CNV (HGSOC) and high-SNV (lung adenocarcinoma) cancers, even with extremely high doublet proportions.

  high-grade lung hgsoc healthy single-cell matched doublet

• spliceJAC: transition genes and state-specific gene regulation from single-cell transcriptome data.

  PMID 36321549 · PMC9627675 · Molecular systems biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 53

  spliceJAC quantifies multivariate mRNA splicing from unspliced/spliced count matrices to construct cell state-specific gene-gene (Jacobian) interaction matrices.

  two-gene three-gene emt circuit simulation grn scrna-seq

• Integrative analysis reveals chemokines CCL2 and CXCL5 mediated shear stress-induced aortic dissection formation.

  PMID 38163105 · PMC10757018 · Heliyon · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 75

  Chemokines CCL2 and CXCL5 mediate a shear stress-induced 'Endothelial-Monocyte-Neutrophil' axis that contributes to aortic dissection development.

  ascending aortic clinical bulk bulk single-cell western

• Integrative transcriptomics and single-cell transcriptomics analyses reveal potential biomarkers and mechanisms of action in papillary thyroid carcinoma.

  PMID 40520228 · PMC12162626 · Frontiers in genetics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 49

  ENTPD1, SERPINA1, and TACSTD2 are potential transcriptomic biomarkers for PTC

  ptc degs key bulk kegg weighted

• Machine learning-based identification of biomarkers and drugs in immunologically cold and hot pancreatic adenocarcinomas.

  PMID 39152432 · PMC11328457 · Journal of translational medicine · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 42

  PAAD tumors can be consensus-clustered into immunologically hot and cold subtypes based on CIBERSORT-derived immune cell fractions, with significantly different survival outcomes.

  paad degs bulk consensus tumor

• treeclimbR pinpoints the data-dependent resolution of hierarchical hypotheses.

  PMID 34001188 · PMC8127214 · Genome biology · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 73

  treeclimbR proposes multiple candidate resolutions on a hierarchical tree and selects the optimal one in a data-driven way to pinpoint signal branches/leaves of interest.

  synthetic aml-sim bcr-xl-sim microbiome differential

• Orthogonal cytokine engineering enables novel synthetic effector states escaping canonical exhaustion in tumor-rejecting CD8(+) T cells.

  PMID 37081150 · PMC10154250 · Nature immunology · 2023 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 37

  Orthogonal engineering of CD8+ T cells to co-secrete IL-2v and IL-33 (with PD-1 decoy) drives a novel synthetic effector state (C5 T_SE) that deviates from canonical PD-1+TOX+ exhaustion.

  ot1 b16-ova facs-sorted engineered adoptive flow single-cell