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.

  testes normal gene rna-seq sapas cdna

• 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

• How negative sampling shapes the performance of transcription factor binding site prediction models.

  PMID 41601205 · PMC12910371 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Negative sampling technique significantly impacts TFBS prediction model performance and interpretation of results

  encode same genome chip-seq atac-seq deep

• Uncertainty-aware genomic deep learning with knowledge distillation.

  PMID 41523993 · PMC12779563 · NPJ artificial intelligence · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  DEGU distills an ensemble of teacher DNNs into a single student model by jointly predicting the ensemble mean and the variability (epistemic uncertainty) across ensemble predictions.

  drosophila k562 deepstarr starr-seq starr-seq-derived lentimpra base-resolution

• 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

• 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

• High-throughput chromatin information enables accurate tissue-specific prediction of transcription factor binding sites.

  PMID 18988630 · PMC2662491 · Nucleic acids research · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Incorporating H3K4me3 chromatin modification estimates greatly improves the accuracy of in silico prediction of in vivo TF binding for a wide range of TFs in human and mouse

  embryonic neural t-cells mm8 chip-seq chip-chip pwm

• 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

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• DMN-seq enriches DNA hypomethylated regions for biomarker discovery using 5-methylcytosine glycosylase.

  PMID 41673887 · PMC13097799 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 9 setups

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  DMN-seq (DMN+) uses DME to nick DNA specifically at 5mC sites, enabling 5mC detection at single-base resolution via selective adaptor ligation

  synthetic partially embryonic mesc glycosylase dmn-seq ultrafast

• 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

• Evaluating the practical aspects and performance of commercial single-cell RNA sequencing technologies.

  PMID 41503158 · PMC12770963 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A comprehensive comparison of seven 3'/whole-transcriptome single-cell platforms and two 5' whole-transcriptome + TCR platforms was performed using PBMCs from multiple donors.

  pbmcs sorted scrna-seq evercode

• 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

• Integrated multi-omic atlas reveals the hierarchy of spatiotemporal regulatory networks of mouse gastrulation.

  PMID 41526381 · PMC12902073 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  BioCRE, a novel bi-orientation regression algorithm, more accurately links genes to candidate cis-regulatory elements (CREs) than existing tools Signac and ArchR

  gastrulating gastrula gold-standard embryo single-cell computational promoter

• 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

• Calibrating tissue level PDE models of ligand dynamics using single cell and spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41714655 · PMC13039149 · NPJ systems biology and applications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics data provide a rich, underused source of information for calibrating tissue-scale PDE models of ligand dynamics.

  skin combined annotated scrna-seq single-cell spatial cell2location

• 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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• 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

• CanSig Benchmarks Methods for Reproducible Cancer Cell State Discovery from Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data.

  PMID 41231245 · PMC13053056 · Cancer research · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  CanSig is a comprehensive benchmarking tool for evaluating computational methods that identify shared transcriptional signatures in cancer from scRNA-seq data

  neftel kim scrna-seq same scrna-seq ground-truth robustness