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).

• Benchmarking tools for the alignment of functional noncoding DNA.

  PMID 14736341 · PMC344529 · BMC bioinformatics · 2004 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Global alignment tools (Avid, ClustalW, Lagan, Needle, DiAlign-G) typically have higher sensitivity over entire noncoding sequences and within constrained blocks than local tools

  simulated melanogaster sapiens sequence pairwise genome

• Gbdmr: identifying differentially methylated CpG regions in the human genome via generalized beta regressions.

  PMID 38443825 · PMC10916021 · BMC bioinformatics · 2024 · 8 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 62

  gbdmr models DNA methylation levels of CpG sites using a generalized beta distribution instead of assuming normality as in linear-regression-based methods

  simulated birth gene simulation methylation

• IsomiR_Window: a system for analyzing small-RNA-seq data in an integrative and user-friendly manner.

  PMID 33522913 · PMC7852101 · BMC bioinformatics · 2021 · 8 claims · 2 setups

  Has reproduction · 78

  IsomiR Window is an integrated, user-friendly platform that systematically identifies, quantifies, and functionally explores isomiR expression in small-RNA-seq datasets without requiring computational skills

  simulated basal small-rna-seq

• An accurate method for identifying recent recombinants from unaligned sequences.

  PMID 35025988 · PMC8963311 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2022 · 8 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 84

  A novel algorithm combining the JHMM (Zilversmit et al. 2013) mosaic representation with a distance-based triple comparison can identify recombinant sequences and their parents from unaligned, gene-length sequences without a reference panel.

  simulated dblα coalescent comparative recombinant

• Computational tradeoffs in multiplex PCR assay design for SNP genotyping.

  PMID 16042802 · PMC1190169 · BMC genomics · 2005 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Achieving high-multiplexing/high-coverage multiplex PCR designs is subject to a computational phase transition as the SNP-pair compatibility probability crosses a critical threshold

  simulated real chromosome randomly simulation multiplex coverage-vs-n

• spliceJAC: transition genes and state-specific gene regulation from single-cell transcriptome data.

  PMID 36321549 · PMC9627675 · Molecular systems biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 53

  spliceJAC quantifies multivariate mRNA splicing from unspliced/spliced count matrices to construct cell state-specific gene-gene (Jacobian) interaction matrices.

  two-gene three-gene emt circuit simulation grn scrna-seq

• RNA modifications detection by comparative Nanopore direct RNA sequencing.

  PMID 34893601 · PMC8664944 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 50

  Nanocompore is a model-free comparative method that uses a 2-component Gaussian mixture model (GMM) and univariate statistical tests on signal intensity/dwell time to detect RNA modifications in Nanopore direct RNA sequencing data without needing a training set

  simulated synthetic escherichia saccharomyces nanopore computational

• MoDLE: high-performance stochastic modeling of DNA loop extrusion interactions.

  PMID 36451166 · PMC9710047 · Genome biology · 2022 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  MoDLE is a high-performance stochastic model that simulates DNA-DNA contacts from loop extrusion genome-wide in minutes using less than 1 GB of RAM

  genome synthetic h1-hesc stochastic molecular ctcf

• TrEMOLO: accurate transposable element allele frequency estimation using long-read sequencing data combining assembly and mapping-based approaches.

  PMID 37013657 · PMC10069131 · Genome biology · 2023 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  TrEMOLO combines an assembly-based INSIDER module and a mapping-based OUTSIDER module to detect TE insertions/deletions from long-read sequencing data and estimate their allele frequency

  melanogaster simulated long-read whole-genome genome

• 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

• Decoding of superimposed traces produced by direct sequencing of heterozygous indels.

  PMID 18654614 · PMC2429969 · PLoS computational biology · 2008 · 7 claims · 3 setups

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  A dynamic programming method (implemented as web app Indelligent) can decode superimposed allelic sequences from a single mixed trace, using only the observed string of ambiguous peak calls, without a reference sequence or reverse trace.

  genomic artificial simulated direct computational comparative

• Computationally scalable regression modeling for ultrahigh-dimensional omics data with ParProx.

  PMID 34254998 · PMC8575036 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2021 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  ParProx implements overlapping and non-overlapping (latent) group lasso regression for time-to-event (Cox) and classification (logistic) analysis with variables grouped by biological priors.

  tcga breast liver synthetic somatic gene methylation-based

• 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

• Generative and integrative modeling for transcriptomics with formalin fixed paraffin embedded material.

  PMID 41029822 · PMC12486589 · Journal of translational medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  fRNA-seq transcript counts are best fit by the negative binomial distribution, with little evidence supporting zero-inflated extensions

  compendium frna-seq nb-generated breast ffpe distribution synthetic

• Digital sorting of complex tissues for cell type-specific gene expression profiles.

  PMID 23497278 · PMC3626856 · BMC bioinformatics · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  The Digital Sorting Algorithm (DSA) deconvolves mixed tissue expression into cell type-specific profiles using only marker genes, without requiring prior knowledge of cell type frequencies or in vitro pure-cell profiles.

  liver im-9 immune deconvolved microarray simulation roc

• POCUS: mining genomic sequence annotation to predict disease genes.

  PMID 14611661 · PMC329128 · Genome biology · 2003 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Genes predisposing to the same disease tend to share functional annotation IDs (GO/InterPro) more than expected by chance

  omim genome disease comparative pocus expression-id

• Speeding disease gene discovery by sequence based candidate prioritization.

  PMID 15766383 · PMC1274252 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Disease genes (OMIM) differ significantly from non-disease genes in sequence-based features including gene/cDNA/protein size, exon number, homolog conservation, secretion signal, 3' UTR length, CpG islands, and distance to nearest gene.

  ensembl training same hgmd comparative machine tenfold