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).

• Dental Plaque Microbial Resistomes of Periodontal Health and Disease and Their Changes after Scaling and Root Planing Therapy.

  PMID 34287005 · PMC8386447 · mSphere · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Periodontitis significantly alters dental plaque microbial community diversity and structure compared to healthy and treated states

  dental metagenomic taxonomic arg

• Discovery of Early-Branching Wolbachia Reveals Functional Enrichment on Horizontally Transferred Genes.

  PMID 35547116 · PMC9084900 · Frontiers in microbiology · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 90

  A novel early-branching Wolbachia strain (wTex), one of the earliest supergroup L strains, was discovered in a plant-parasitic nematode community from 1 of 16 sampled sites.

  rhizosphere nematode wtex wolbachia metagenomic pcr comparative

• Metagenomic analysis of respiratory tract DNA viral communities in cystic fibrosis and non-cystic fibrosis individuals.

  PMID 19816605 · PMC2756586 · PloS one · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CF phage communities are highly similar to each other, whereas Non-CF individuals have more distinct, variable phage communities reflecting transient environmental sampling

  sputum phage metagenomes inferred metagenomic functional diversity

• A computational screen for type I polyketide synthases in metagenomics shotgun data.

  PMID 18953415 · PMC2568958 · PloS one · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Combining HMM domain searches with maximum-likelihood phylogenetic trees can discriminate true PKS I sequences from evolutionarily related but functionally different enzymes (e.g., FAS I) in metagenomic data.

  predicted hmm-identified reference hmm hmm maximum-likelihood robinson-foulds

• Towards reliable whole genome sequencing for outbreak preparedness and response.

  PMID 35945497 · PMC9361258 · BMC genomics · 2022 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Amplicon-based Nanopore sequencing can rapidly generate whole genome sequences in samples with viral load up to Ct 33.

  culture aligned amplicon-based metagenomic capture-based

• The lords of the genomes.

  PMID 15461811 · PMC545592 · Genome biology · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Functionally active clusters of transcription-factor binding sites are evolutionarily conserved between Drosophila species, whereas inactive clusters are not, even when sequence identity alone cannot distinguish them

  drosophila cdna-derived saccharomyces acid reporter-gene enhancer chromatin

• Systems biology: where it's at in 2005.

  PMID 16086862 · PMC1273629 · Genome biology · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  High-throughput genetic-interaction and physical-interaction maps show only minimal overlap with each other, whereas literature-derived genetic and physical interaction maps share a much greater fraction of edges

  saccharomyces drosophila environmental literature systematic genome-wide

• Microbial diversity of plant pathogens and insect endosymbionts in Reptalus artemisiae.

  PMID 41826827 · PMC13202766 · BMC microbiology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 71

  R. artemisiae harbors six prokaryotic taxa: two plant pathogens ('Ca. P. solani' and 'Ca. A. phytopathogenicus') and four insect endosymbionts ('Ca. Vidania', 'Ca. Purcelliella', 'Ca. Karelsulcia', Wolbachia)

  whole-insect individual metagenomic endosymbiont pcr-free its2 taxonomic

• Taxonomic and functional metagenomic assessment of a Dolichospermum bloom in a large and deep lake south of the Alps.

  PMID 39227168 · PMC11412076 · FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Phylogenomic analysis of the MAG clarified the taxonomic position of D. lemmermannii within the genus Dolichospermum and the ADA (Anabaena/Dolichospermum/Aphanizomenon) group

  surface bloom environmental dolichospermum shotgun lc-ms metagenome

• Metagenomic Comparison of Bat Colony Resistomes Across Anthropogenic and Pristine Habitats.

  PMID 41594088 · PMC12838372 · Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Anthropogenic exposure enhances the diversity and evenness of resistance mechanisms within bat-associated microbiomes, increasing their potential as AMR reservoirs.

  bat mag-derived shotgun metagenome arg

• Comparative Metagenomic Analysis of Biosynthetic Diversity across Sponge Microbiomes Highlights Metabolic Novelty, Conservation, and Diversification.

  PMID 35862823 · PMC9426513 · mSystems · 2022 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  The vast majority of recovered gene cluster families (GCFs) in sponge microbiomes show no similarity to any characterized BGC, revealing extreme biosynthetic novelty

  microbiomes sponge shotgun nonpareil 16s

• RiboTaxa: combined approaches for rRNA genes taxonomic resolution down to the species level from metagenomics data revealing novelties.

  PMID 36159175 · PMC9492272 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  RiboTaxa, combining BBTools, FastQC, SortMeRNA, MetaRib, EMIRGE, VSEARCH, BBMap and QIIME 2's Sklearn classifier, was built as a pipeline for SSU rRNA-based taxonomic profiling of metagenomics data.

  microbial reconstructed synthetic real shotgun ssu full-length

• Mining the equine gut metagenome: poorly-characterized taxa associated with cardiovascular fitness in endurance athletes.

  PMID 36192523 · PMC9529974 · Communications biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Built an integrated horse gut microbiome gene catalog (~25 million unique genes) and 372 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) spanning 4179 genera and 95 phyla

  fecal horse dominant plasma shotgun taxonomic functional

• Wochenende - modular and flexible alignment-based shotgun metagenome analysis.

  PMID 36368923 · PMC9650795 · BMC genomics · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Wochenende is a modular, transparent alignment-based pipeline for shotgun metagenome analysis supporting short and long reads across all kingdoms of life

  zymo bacterial reference shotgun comparative reference

• A novel and dual digestive symbiosis scales up the nutrition and immune system of the holobiont Rimicaris exoculata.

  PMID 36333777 · PMC9636832 · Microbiome · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Reconstructed 20 MAGs including novel lineages of Hepatoplasmataceae (foregut-associated) and Deferribacteres (midgut-associated)

  rimicaris quality-filtered dereplicated deferribacteres shotgun ssu differential

• Metapangenomics of wild and cultivated banana microbiome reveals a plethora of host-associated protective functions.

  PMID 37085932 · PMC10120106 · Environmental microbiome · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Root and corm endosphere communities are significantly richer and compositionally distinct from leaf endosphere communities across Musa genotypes

  root musa assembled prokka-annotated shotgun culture-free metagenome

• What defines a photosynthetic microbial mat in western Antarctica?

  PMID 40043057 · PMC11882083 · PloS one · 2025 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Taxonomic composition of Antarctic microbial mat communities is characterized by similar bacterial groups across regions

  microbial quality-filtered overflowing shotgun taxonomic alpha

• Diverse Cyanopeptides follow distinct temporal succession patterns in freshwater harmful algal blooms.

  PMID 41711085 · PMC13196583 · The ISME journal · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Shifts from Microcystis to Dolichospermum dominance occur later in the bloom season, coinciding with lower temperatures

  natural lake microcystis western shotgun hrms metagenomic

• Dynamics of gut bacteriophage in diversity outbred mice studied over lifespan and during extreme caloric restriction.

  PMID 41772715 · PMC12983593 · Microbiome · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Quiescent prophages dominate gut viral metagenomes, consistent with 'piggyback-the-winner' dynamics

  fecal metagenomic custom subset shotgun viral kraken2-based

• Water mass specific genes dominate the Southern Ocean microbiome.

  PMID 41803086 · PMC12972064 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The Southern Ocean microbial gene catalog is highly original and largely distinct from existing marine gene catalogs

  seawater ace tara polar-specific shotgun comparative agnostos