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).

• scSAMAC: saliency-adjusted masking induced attention contrastive learning for single-cell clustering.

  PMID 40131310 · PMC11934584 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 1 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  scSAMAC integrates contrastive learning and negative binomial (NB) losses into a VAE, extracting features via contrastive unit similarity while preserving intrinsic data characteristics to enhance robustness and generalization in clustering.

  scrna-seq 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

• Integrative transcriptomic and machine learning framework reveals candidate genes and potential mechanisms of aflatoxin B1 exposure in breast cancer.

  PMID 41688730 · PMC12982753 · Scientific reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 83

  Twenty-two genes lie at the intersection of AFB1-predicted targets and breast cancer-associated co-expression modules/DEGs

  afb1 breast training candidate computational bulk weighted

• Inferring a spatial code of cell-cell interactions across a whole animal body.

  PMID 36395331 · PMC9714814 · PLoS computational biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 90

  cell2cell computes cell-cell interaction (CCI) potential using a novel modified Bray-Curtis score based on complementary coexpression of ligand-receptor pairs between cells

  elegans computational single-cell random genetic

• A single-cell compendium of human cerebrospinal fluid identifies disease-associated immune cell populations.

  PMID 39744938 · PMC11684814 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2025 · 8 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 78

  Integration of public and newly generated scRNA-seq datasets yields a compendium of 139 subjects (193 samples, 403,973 immune cells) spanning CSF and blood across healthy controls and multiple neurologic diseases.

  csf scrna-seq trajectory flow

• A cell atlas of the adult female Aedes aegypti midgut revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing.

  PMID 38839790 · PMC11153528 · Scientific data · 2024 · 8 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 95

  Established a protocol for isolating single cells from Ae. aegypti midgut and performing scRNA-seq (dissociation, density-gradient purification, viability QC, 10x Genomics library prep and sequencing).

  dissociated scrna-seq merged single-cell viability computational

• 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

• Single cell analysis reveals the roles and regulatory mechanisms of type-I interferons in Parkinson's disease.

  PMID 38566100 · PMC10985960 · Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 55

  Microglia, endothelial cells, and pericytes exhibit the highest type I interferon (IFN-I) activity among PD midbrain cell types, with microglia showing markedly higher activity in PD.

  midbrain microglia substantia mptp-induced single-cell gene bulk

• 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

• Enabling Single-Cell Drug Response Annotations from Bulk RNA-Seq Using SCAD.

  PMID 36762572 · PMC10104628 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 81

  SCAD, a transfer learning framework integrating adversarial discriminative domain adaptation (ADDA), can infer single-cell drug sensitivities by transferring knowledge from bulk RNA-seq pharmacogenomic data (GDSC) to scRNA-seq target domains

  pan-cancer pc9 451lu a375 bulk scrna-seq computational

• Community assessment of methods to deconvolve cellular composition from bulk gene expression.

  PMID 39191725 · PMC11350143 · Nature communications · 2024 · 8 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 63

  Most deconvolution methods accurately predict coarse-grained immune/stromal cell populations from bulk expression.

  admixtures cancer tumor bulk bulk admixture crowdsourced

• 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

• Monocytes serve as Shiga toxin carriers during the development of hemolytic uremic syndrome.

  PMID 39871175 · PMC11773931 · Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 84

  Monocytes are the primary carriers that transport Stx2 from the periphery to the kidney during STEC-induced HUS

  peripheral thp-1 cfse-labeled evs single-cell flow toxin-cell

• Circulating mucosal-associated invariant T cells identify patients responding to anti-PD-1 therapy.

  PMID 33723257 · PMC7961017 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 70

  Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells are more abundant in the circulation of metastatic melanoma patients who respond to anti-PD-1 therapy than in non-responders, before and during therapy.

  peripheral cd3+cd8+ pbmc-derived pbmc high-dimensional single-cell flow

• 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

• Tbx5 drives Aldh1a2 expression to regulate a RA-Hedgehog-Wnt gene regulatory network coordinating cardiopulmonary development.

  PMID 34643182 · PMC8555986 · eLife · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 84

  Tbx5 directly maintains Aldh1a2 expression in the foregut lateral plate mesoderm/pSHF via an evolutionarily conserved intronic enhancer.

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