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).

• 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

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  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

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

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

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  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

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  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

• 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

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  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

• 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

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  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

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

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

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  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

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

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

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  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

• FEM: mining biological meaning from cell level in single-cell RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 34909283 · PMC8641482 · PeerJ · 2021 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  The FEM algorithm converts each cell's gene expression matrix (GEM) into a functional expression matrix by applying Fisher's exact test enrichment per cell and per gene set, then encoding adjusted p-values as information content.

  peripheral pancreas liver pbmc scrna-seq differential dimensionality

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

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

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  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

• Estimating and Correcting for Off-Target Cellular Contamination in Brain Cell Type Specific RNA-Seq Data.

  PMID 33746712 · PMC7966716 · Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2021 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  A computational method using high-quality scRNA-seq reference data can estimate per-sample, per-cell-type off-target contamination coefficients in sctRNA-seq datasets.

  brain cortex allen lcm-seq lcm-seq scrna-seq marker

• Single-cell multiomics profiling reveals heterogeneous transcriptional programs and microenvironment in DSRCTs.

  PMID 38781959 · PMC11228554 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DSRCT tumor cells cluster into consistent subpopulations with partially overlapping lineage- and metabolism-related transcriptional programs across patients and samples

  fresh matched archived dsrct scrna-seq single-nucleus bulk

• Deciphering the Immune Microenvironment at the Forefront of Tumor Aggressiveness by Constructing a Regulatory Network with Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomic Data.

  PMID 38254989 · PMC10815467 · Genes · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Combining scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics enables inference of malignant cells at the invasive front of the ER+ breast cancer TME and dissection of events at the tumor infiltration forefront

  normal er+ epithelial malignant single-cell spatial copy

• 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

• 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

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  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

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

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

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  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

• The liver as an immunological barrier redefined by single-cell analysis.

  PMID 32176810 · PMC7218664 · Immunology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-cell RNA-seq enables unbiased characterization of liver cell states, developmental trajectories and rare immune populations that bulk averaging obscures, redefining liver cell-type mapping.

  c57bl liver whole-liver hepatocytes scrna-seq facs-based plate-based

• 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

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  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

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

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

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  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

• Mapping the Development of Human Spermatogenesis Using Transcriptomics-Based Data: A Scoping Review.

  PMID 39000031 · PMC11241379 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scRNA-seq of human testis reveals major transcriptional modifications occurring around 11 years of age, marking a transition toward the adult cellular state

  fetal neonatal prepubertal peripubertal scrna-seq

• huSA: a comprehensive database for multi-dimensional resolution of bulk, single cell and spatial transcription profiles in skin diseases.

  PMID 41719583 · PMC12923168 · Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  huSA is a publicly accessible database integrating data from 17 skin diseases and 63 independent datasets, including 1434 scRNA-seq, 63 spatial transcriptomics, and 1502 bulk RNA-seq samples

  skin scrna-seq single prurigo scrna-seq bulk spatial