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).

• 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

• Rapid identification of microbial pathogens and antimicrobial resistance from bloodstream infections using long-read sequencing.

  PMID 42274466 · PMC13256323 · Microbial genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A novel ONT long-read sequencing laboratory and bioinformatic workflow rapidly identifies bacterial and fungal organisms and AMR determinants from positive blood cultures

  positive matching pure ont long-read short-read maldi-tof

• Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AhR) Activation by 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-Dioxin (TCDD) Dose-Dependently Shifts the Gut Microbiome Consistent with the Progression of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

  PMID 34830313 · PMC8625315 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2021 · 8 claims · 2 setups

  Has reproduction · 79

  TCDD dose-dependently enriches Lactobacillus species, particularly L. reuteri, in the mouse cecum microbiome

  cecum fecal shotgun humann

• 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

  Has reproduction · 76

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

  dental metagenomic taxonomic arg

• 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

  Has reproduction · 66

  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

• How bacterial communities expand functional repertoires.

  PMID 17238278 · PMC1750926 · PLoS biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The human microbiome contains roughly 100 times as many genes as does the human genome

  bacteroides distal interleukin-10-deficient macrophages transcriptional metagenomic microbiota

• 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

  Has reproduction · 83

  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

• Comparative Genomics Provides Insight into the Function of Broad-Host Range Sponge Symbionts.

  PMID 34519538 · PMC8546597 · mBio · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 90

  Eleven new genomes were added to the Tethybacterales order and a novel family (Polydorabacteraceae) was identified

  tsitsikamma tethybacterales putative bin genome 16s multi-locus

• 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

• Large-scale estimation of bacterial and archaeal DNA prevalence in metagenomes reveals biome-specific patterns.

  PMID 41854267 · PMC13098197 · mSystems · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  SPF scalably and robustly estimates the fraction of bacterial and archaeal reads in a metagenome using detection of prokaryotic single-copy marker genes, without requiring eukaryotic or viral reference genomes

  zymo cami simulated fecal simulated shotgun spf

• Unleashing the potential of mRNA-seq to uncover the microbiome structure and their crosstalk with host cells: the vulvar ecosystem.

  PMID 42098796 · PMC13154700 · Microbiome · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Poly(A)-enriched mRNA-seq can reliably reconstruct microbiome composition, validated against a quantitative mock community standard and metagenomic analysis

  zymobiomics vls-vscc vulvar subset mrna-seq rna-seq poly

• Microbial metagenomics.

  PMID 16207365 · PMC1257460 · Genome biology · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Metagenomic sequencing of the human GI tract reveals microbial community composition (e.g., Actinobacteria and Archaea prominence) differing from prior culture-based estimates dominated by Firmicutes and Bacteroides

  gastrointestinal acid ocean group metagenomic shotgun comparative

• Metagenomic and Untargeted Metabolomic Analysis of the Effect of Sporisorium reilianum Polysaccharide on Improving Obesity.

  PMID 37107373 · PMC10137368 · Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  SRP reduces body weight gain and improves serum lipid levels (TG, TC, LDL-c, HDL-c) and liver enzyme function (ALT, AST) in HFD rats, especially at the high dose

  sprague liver fecal feeding histopathology fecal

• Ligilactobacillus salivarius regulating translocation of core bacteria to enrich mouse intrinsic microbiota of heart and liver in defense of heat stress.

  PMID 40276518 · PMC12018310 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  Intrinsic microbiota (dominated by Burkholderia and Ralstonia) resides in the heart and liver of healthy SPF mice

  heart ileum metagenomic culturomics 16s

• metaGEM: reconstruction of genome scale metabolic models directly from metagenomes.

  PMID 34614189 · PMC8643649 · Nucleic acids research · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 64

  metaGEM enables end-to-end reconstruction of FBA-ready GEMs directly from metagenomes without relying on reference genomes

  metagenomic prokaryotic reconstructed gut mag genome-scale gem

• metaFun: An analysis pipeline for metagenomic big data with fast and unified functional searches.

  PMID 41530917 · PMC12818822 · Gut microbes · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  metaFun is an open-source, end-to-end Nextflow/Apptainer pipeline integrating quality control, taxonomic profiling, functional profiling, de novo assembly, binning, genome assessment, comparative genomics, network analysis, and strain-level microdiversity analysis into a unified framework

  simulated selected gut mags novo binning pangenome-based

• Shotgun metagenomic analysis of the oral microbiomes of children with noma.

  PMID 41860897 · PMC13029773 · PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Noma oral microbiomes show marked dysbiosis with significant enrichment of Treponema, Porphyromonas, and Bacteroides, and depletion of Streptococcus and Rothia, compared to healthy controls

  oral saliva noma previously shotgun comparative metagenome

• Detection of Virus-Related Sequences Associated With Potential Etiologies of Hepatitis in Liver Tissue Samples From Rats, Mice, Shrews, and Bats.

  PMID 34177835 · PMC8221242 · Frontiers in microbiology · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 79

  Viral metagenomics of liver tissue from rats, mice, shrews, and bats revealed a diverse set of sequences related to herpesviruses, orthomyxoviruses, anelloviruses, hepeviruses, hepadnaviruses, flaviviruses, parvoviruses, and picornaviruses

  pooled individual liver serum viral pcr strand-specific

• 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

• 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

  Has reproduction · 59

  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