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).

• Bulk and single-cell characterisation of the immune heterogeneity of atherosclerosis identifies novel targets for immunotherapy.

  PMID 36855107 · PMC9974063 · BMC biology · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 70

  Integration of scRNA-seq datasets from human atherosclerosis samples identifies 28 distinct immune cell subpopulations with heterogeneity in tissue preference, genetics, function, immune dynamics, transcriptional regulators, metabolism, and cell communication.

  immune atherosclerotic cd4+ cd8+ scrna-seq gsea pseudotime

• 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

• 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

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

  PMID 37907883 · PMC10619225 · BMC medical genomics · 2023 · 6 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  HASCAD, a DNN-based cell composition deconvolution model, predicts the fractions of up to 15 immune cell types from bulk RNA-seq.

  pbmc bulk tcga-lihc harmony-symphony scrna-seq simulated bulk

• 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

• 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

• Celline: a flexible tool for one-step retrieval and integrative analysis of public single-cell RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 41458999 · PMC12738925 · Frontiers in bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 64

  Celline is a Python package executing an entire scRNA-seq workflow (retrieval, preprocessing, integration, analysis) using single-line commands per step

  mus brain integrated homo droplet-based scrna-seq cell-type

• 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

• Leveraging RNA-seq deconvolution to improve complex in vitro model characterization.

  PMID 40701251 · PMC12391696 · The Journal of biological chemistry · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  RNA-seq deconvolution can predict cell type proportions from bulk RNA-seq using scRNA-seq references, offering a useful characterization tool for CIVMs where single-cell methods are impractical

  intestine rodent duodenal neonatal bulk scrna-seq marker

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

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

  Has reproduction · 68

  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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Proneural-mesenchymal antagonism dominates the patterns of phenotypic heterogeneity in glioblastoma.

  PMID 38433919 · PMC10905000 · iScience · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 100

  The four proposed GBM molecular subtypes (Proneural, Neural, Classical, Mesenchymal / NPC-like, OPC-like, AC-like, MES-like) are not mutually exclusive or independent of one another

  scrna-seq tcga-gbm gse131928 tumor gene pairwise principal

• 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 · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 42

  CanCellCap, a multi-domain learning framework integrating domain adversarial learning and Mixture of Experts, identifies cancer cells across all tissues, cancers, and sequencing platforms by extracting tissue-common and tissue-specific gene expression patterns.

  testing datasets tisch2 prostate scrna-seq simulated spatial

• Forseti: a mechanistic and predictive model of the splicing status of scRNA-seq reads.

  PMID 38940130 · PMC11256924 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2024 · 7 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 87

  Forseti is the first probabilistic model for resolving the splicing status of exonic scRNA-seq reads by scoring putative fragments linking read alignments to proximate priming sites

  training simulated held-out paired-end cubic mlp

• An integrated single-cell and spatial proteotranscriptomics atlas of fibroblast-driven immunoregulation within the human adult oral cavity.

  PMID 42147490 · PMC13179517 · Cell press blue · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  Fibroblasts act as central regulators of structural immunity in the human oral cavity, forming peri-epithelial hubs enriched in effector cytokines

  oral ffpe scrna-seq integrated scrna-seq spatial ligand-receptor

• Development of double-positive thymocytes at single-cell resolution.

  PMID 33771202 · PMC8004397 · Genome medicine · 2021 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 86

  DP thymocytes can be classified into blast, rearrangement, and selection subtypes, distinguishable by surface markers CD2 and Ly6d

  thymocytes sorted thymocyte scrna-seq flow immunofluorescence

• PanglaoDB: a web server for exploration of mouse and human single-cell RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 30951143 · PMC6450036 · Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2019 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 80

  PanglaoDB is a web server providing pre-processed and pre-computed analyses of >1054 single-cell experiments (>4 million cells) from mouse and human across many tissues and platforms.

  grch38 homogeneous per single single-cell clustering cell-type

• A reference profile-free deconvolution method to infer cancer cell-intrinsic subtypes and tumor-type-specific stromal profiles.

  PMID 32111252 · PMC7049190 · Genome medicine · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 91

  DeClust is a reference profile-free deconvolution method that simultaneously deconvolves bulk tumor expression into cancer, immune, and stromal compartments and clusters samples into cancer cell-intrinsic molecular subtypes, outputting subtype-specific reference profiles for the cohort rather than for individuals.

  solid muscle-invasive ccrcc for bulk single-cell scrna-seq