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).

• Roar: detecting alternative polyadenylation with standard mRNA sequencing libraries.

  PMID 27756200 · PMC5069797 · BMC bioinformatics · 2016 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Roar, a method using PRE/POST read counts around annotated APA sites to compute an m/M ratio and a ratio-of-ratios (roar) statistic, detects differential 3'UTR shortening/lengthening from standard RNA-seq libraries.

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• A network-based model of Aspergillus fumigatus elucidates regulators of development and defensive natural products of an opportunistic pathogen.

  PMID 41505094 · PMC12781895 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  MERLIN-P-TFA network inference on 18 curated public RNA-seq datasets produced a genome-wide GRN resource for A. fumigatus called GRAsp.

  aspergillus fumigatus bulk computational chip-seq-based

• 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

• Detection of alternative splicing: deep sequencing or deep learning?

  PMID 41520225 · PMC12790623 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Sequence-based deep learning tools (AlphaGenome, SpliceAI, DeepSplice) show potential for initial hypothesis development and as additional filters in standard RNA-seq pipelines, especially when sequencing depth is limited.

  dilated dcm sequence subsampled bulk rna-seq deep

• Spatial transcriptomics maps host-gut microbiome biogeography at high resolution.

  PMID 41792309 · PMC13171632 · Nature microbiology · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Enzymatic in situ polyadenylation increases bacterial RNA recovery in oligo(dT)-based spatial transcriptomics arrays by up to ~100-fold while preserving host gene capture

  apc-deficient heart ileum fresh-frozen spatial high-resolution bulk

• OptiType: precision HLA typing from next-generation sequencing data.

  PMID 25143287 · PMC4441069 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  OptiType, an ILP-based HLA genotyping algorithm, produces accurate four-digit HLA-I predictions from NGS data not enriched for the HLA cluster.

  colorectal lymphoblastic hapmap genomes rna-seq low-coverage exome

• RNA-Seq alignment to individualized genomes improves transcript abundance estimates in multiparent populations.

  PMID 25236449 · PMC4174954 · Genetics · 2014 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Genetic variants distinguishing an individual genome from the reference cause read misalignment and biased transcript abundance estimates, and fine-tuning of alignment algorithms does not correct this problem.

  liver genomic cast simulated bulk high-density rna-seq

• Detecting unannotated splicing events in short-read RNA-seq with SAMI, a UMI-aware Nextflow pipeline.

  PMID 42166739 · PMC13242923 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  SAMI is a UMI-aware, Singularity-contained Nextflow pipeline that detects splicing events diverging from transcript annotations directly from raw FASTQ files.

  seraseq simulated small processed targeted simulated computation

• ImmuSeeker: deep mining of immune-related gene family signatures through lineage reconstruction.

  PMID 41888873 · PMC13154904 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  ImmuSeeker leverages the phylogenetic structure of HLA/KIR alleles in its alignment and filtering strategy to improve accuracy and robustness of immune gene signature detection

  a549 rna-seq covid-19 autoimmune bulk iso-seq rna-seq

• Benefit of using interaction effects for the analysis of high-dimensional time-response or dose-response data for two-group comparisons.

  PMID 38012163 · PMC10682470 · Scientific reports · 2023 · 5 claims · 1 setups

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  Interaction effects are often the mathematical equivalent of the biological research question in gene expression studies but are frequently not considered in practice.

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• SnakeAltPromoter Facilitates Differential Alternative Promoter Analysis.

  PMID 41993886 · PMC13082578 · Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2026 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  SnakeAltPromoter is the first unified, reproducible Snakemake workflow that automates alternative promoter analysis from raw RNA-seq data using 3 complementary methods (ProActiv, Salmon, DEXSeq)

  heart brain gm12878 simulated bulk cage rna-seq

• In vivo single-cell RNA metabolic labeling resolves early transcriptional responders in the regenerating zebrafish heart.

  PMID 42086590 · PMC13144409 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  SLAM-seq (4sU metabolic labeling with T-to-C conversion detection) can be established and quantified in the adult zebrafish heart at the bulk level

  zebrafish macrophage-like bulk scslam-seq pathway

• Protocol for total RNA sequencing analysis of extracellular RNA from biofluids.

  PMID 42149717 · PMC13213309 · STAR protocols · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  This protocol enables total RNA sequencing library preparation of extracellular RNA (exRNA) from blood plasma using SMART (Switching Mechanism At 5' end of RNA Template) cDNA synthesis technology, from plasma preparation through sequencing data analysis.

  blood urine seminal conditioned sequencing qpcr-based

• A data-driven estimation of the ribosome drop-off rate in S. cerevisiae reveals a correlation with the genes length.

  PMID 38638702 · PMC11025885 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2024 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Ribosome drop-off events occur at a significant rate in S. cerevisiae cultured in standard conditions

  cerevisiae ribo-seq ribosome rna-seq read

• A comparative study of techniques for differential expression analysis on RNA-Seq data.

  PMID 25119138 · PMC4132098 · PloS one · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  edgeR performs slightly better than DESeq and Cuffdiff2 in terms of the ability to uncover true positives.

  brain neurospheres lymphoblastoid simulation single-end paired-end rna-seq

• Elucidation of the molecular responses to waterlogging in Jatropha roots by transcriptome profiling.

  PMID 25520726 · PMC4251292 · Frontiers in plant science · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  24 h of waterlogging significantly alters mRNA abundance of 1968 genes in Jatropha roots (931 up, 1037 down).

  jatropha geo bulk semi-quantitative quantitative

• scGeno: a Hidden Markov Model approach to denoise chromosome-scale genotypes from single-cell data.

  PMID 41982479 · PMC13075984 · Bioinformatics advances · 2026 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  scGeno, a categorical HMM, infers chromosome-level genotype states in mixed-genotype organisms by modeling sequential single-cell allelic expression ratios along chromosomes

  wild-type dnmt1 synthetic embryo single-cell posterior down-sampling

• Defining the signature of deformable and infectious Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes.

  PMID 42064353 · PMC13126010 · Wellcome open research · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Deformable gametocytes are immediately infectious upon release from the bone marrow into circulation.

  synchronized falciparum blood microsphere bulk exflagellation

• Effector gene silencing coordinated by histone methylation and small RNAs enhances host adaptation in a plant pathogen.

  PMID 41505097 · PMC12781887 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CRISPR/Cas9 editing of PsSu(z)12 abolishes H3K27me3 deposition at Avr1b and Avr3a, causing transcriptional reactivation and loss of avirulence

  sojae soybean crispr homology-directed virulence

• Distinguishing benign from pathogenic duplications involving GPR101 and VGLL1-adjacent enhancers in the clinical setting with the bioinformatic tool POSTRE.

  PMID 41540017 · PMC12890961 · NPJ genomic medicine · 2026 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  POSTRE correctly classified all 34 GPR101-associated duplications (27 pathogenic X-LAG, 7 non-pathogenic) as pathogenic or benign

  anterior embryonic patient-derived genome h3k27ac atac-seq rna-seq