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).

• The selection of software and database for metagenomics sequence analysis impacts the outcome of microbial profiling and pathogen detection.

  PMID 37027361 · PMC10081788 · PloS one · 2023 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Obtaining an accurate species-level microbial profile using current direct-read metagenomics profiling software is still a challenging task.

  simulated kidney biological extracted shotgun taxonomic pathogen

• Gene loss rate: a probabilistic measure for the conservation of eukaryotic genes.

  PMID 17158152 · PMC1802574 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  GLR is a novel maximum-likelihood measure of gene loss rate that probabilistically weighs all possible ancestral phyletic patterns rather than relying on a single parsimonious reconstruction.

  synthetic eukaryotic simulated 16-species analytical comparative simulation

• Meta-analysis of inter-species liver co-expression networks elucidates traits associated with common human diseases.

  PMID 20019805 · PMC2787626 · PLoS computational biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A novel semi-parametric meta-analysis method (based on a gene-centric Glass's d effect size) outperforms existing parametric and non-parametric meta-analysis methods at identifying functionally coherent gene pairs across species.

  liver simulated conserved nearly gene simulation kolmogorov-smirnov

• Evaluation of taxonomic classification and profiling methods for long-read shotgun metagenomic sequencing datasets.

  PMID 36513983 · PMC9749362 · BMC bioinformatics · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Long-read classifiers generally performed best among the 11 methods tested

  atcc zymobiomics taxonomic short-read

• PowerBacGWAS: a computational pipeline to perform power calculations for bacterial genome-wide association studies.

  PMID 35338232 · PMC8956664 · Communications biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Two computational approaches (sub-sampling and phenotype-simulation) can be implemented to perform power calculations for bacterial GWAS using existing genome collections, packaged as the PowerBacGWAS pipeline

  enterococcus klebsiella mycobacterium faecium pan-genome burden variant

• Assessing the gene space in draft genomes.

  PMID 19042974 · PMC2615622 · Nucleic acids research · 2009 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  The proportion of mapped CEGs in a draft genome assembly is a useful metric for describing gene space completeness, complementing N50 and x-fold coverage.

  caenorhabditis toxoplasma homo briggsae cegma blast tblastn

• Comparing time series transcriptome data between plants using a network module finding algorithm.

  PMID 31164912 · PMC6544932 · Plant methods · 2019 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Converting time-series expression data into co-expression networks and applying network module finding (OrthoClust) enables cross-species comparison without requiring one-to-one developmental stage mapping.

  soybean arabidopsis combined module reciprocal time-series cross-species

• 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

• 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

• Structural organization and interactions of transmembrane domains in tetraspanin proteins.

  PMID 15985154 · PMC1190194 · BMC structural biology · 2005 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  TM1, TM2 and TM3 of human tetraspanins display a distinct heptad repeat motif (abcdefg)n, while TM4 lacks this motif.

  tetraspanin cd9 gfp single-cysteine sequence cross-species fluorescence

• Improved eukaryotic detection compatible with large-scale automated analysis of metagenomes.

  PMID 37032329 · PMC10084625 · Microbiome · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  MAPQ ≥30 filtering improves precision but substantially reduces recall, especially for unrepresented/divergent eukaryotic taxa

  eukdetect simulated zymobiomics read holdout mutation-rate

• Effect of the assignment of ancestral CpG state on the estimation of nucleotide substitution rates in mammals.

  PMID 18826599 · PMC2576242 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  CpG/non-CpG assignment based on presence/absence of a CpG dinucleotide seriously biases substitution rate estimates, overestimating CpG changes and underestimating non-CpG changes.

  randomly real human-chimpanzee simulated simulation comparative

• A space-efficient and accurate method for mapping and aligning cDNA sequences onto genomic sequence.

  PMID 18344523 · PMC2377433 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Spaln maps and aligns large cDNA sequence sets onto whole mammalian genomes using substantially less memory than comparable existing tools

  unigene shuffled real genomes genome-wide alignment gene

• Patrocles: a database of polymorphic miRNA-mediated gene regulation in vertebrates.

  PMID 19906729 · PMC2808989 · Nucleic acids research · 2010 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Patrocles is a database compiling DSPs predicted to perturb miRNA-mediated gene regulation across seven vertebrate species, covering targets, miRNA precursors and silencing machinery.

  3'-utr mirbase hapmap comparative snp mirna

• 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

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  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

• 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 third approach to gene prediction suggests thousands of additional human transcribed regions.

  PMID 16543943 · PMC1391917 · PLoS computational biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A third basic concept for gene prediction exists, based on detecting strand-specific 'transcription footprints' (mutational and selectional biases) rather than gene structure or sequence similarity.

  genome 4.4-mb known nucleotide repeat polyadenylation

• Genome-wide identification of human functional DNA using a neutral indel model.

  PMID 16410828 · PMC1326222 · PLoS computational biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A neutral indel model predicting a geometric distribution of intergap segment (IGS) lengths fits human-mouse ancestral repeat (AR) alignment data excellently

  chromosome human-mouse genome individual whole-genome probabilistic comparative

• Estimates of recent and historical effective population size in turbot, seabream, seabass and carp selective breeding programmes.

  PMID 34742227 · PMC8572424 · Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Current effective population size for all four farmed fish populations is small (≤50 fish), potentially threatening breeding-programme sustainability

  turbot gilthead european common rad linkage computer

• LMAS: evaluating metagenomic short de novo assembly methods through defined communities.

  PMID 36576131 · PMC9795473 · GigaScience · 2022 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  LMAS (Last Metagenomic Assembler Standing) is a flexible, Nextflow-based, Docker-containerized automated workflow for benchmarking de novo metagenomic assemblers against defined mock communities, producing an interactive HTML report.

  zymobiomics assembled assembler-generated novo reference-based contig