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).

• Identification of a novel lncRNA prognostic signature and analysis of functional lncRNA AC115619.1 in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 37614318 · PMC10442647 · Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A six-lncRNA prognostic signature (LINC02428, LINC02163, AC008549.1, AC115619.1, CASC9, LINC02362) predicts overall survival in HCC patients

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• A global database for modeling tumor-immune cell communication.

  PMID 37438390 · PMC10338499 · Scientific data · 2023 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  TICCom integrates 739 experimentally-validated or manually-curated TIC interactions collected from more than 3,000 literatures

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• Inference of Subpathway Activity Profiles Reveals Metabolism Abnormal Subpathway Regions in Glioblastoma Multiforme.

  PMID 33072547 · PMC7533644 · Frontiers in oncology · 2020 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A GSVA-based method for constructing a metabolic subpathway activity score matrix accurately identifies abnormal GBM metabolic targets

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• iBRIDGE: A Data Integration Method to Identify Inflamed Tumors from Single-cell RNA-Seq Data and Differentiate Cell Type-Specific Markers of Immune-Cell Infiltration.

  PMID 37023414 · PMC10236149 · Cancer immunology research · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Malignant cells cluster by patient in scRNA-seq data while immune and stromal cells cluster by cell type, making malignant cells uniquely suited to carry patient-level inflamed/cold signal

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• FRMD8 inhibits tumor metastasis in BRCA1-associated TNBC by negatively regulating tmTNF-α.

  PMID 40619383 · PMC12229025 · Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Low FRMD8 expression in BRCA1-mutant breast cancer cells significantly enhances metastatic potential to various organs

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• Increased prevalence of hybrid epithelial/mesenchymal state and enhanced phenotypic heterogeneity in basal breast cancer.

  PMID 38974967 · PMC11225361 · iScience · 2024 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Luminal breast cancer gene expression signature is closely/positively associated with an epithelial signature

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• Heterogeneity and Differentiation Trajectories of Infiltrating CD8+ T Cells in Lung Adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 36358600 · PMC9658355 · Cancers · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Infiltrating CD8+ T cells in LUAD can be divided into ten transcriptionally distinct subsets: eight cytotoxic (CTL) subsets, one naive-like (NTL) subset, and one exhausted (ETL) subset.

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• Unlocking the microbial studies through computational approaches: how far have we reached?

  PMID 36920617 · PMC10016191 · Environmental science and pollution research international · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Metagenomics enables culture-independent study of microbial communities directly from their natural environments, bypassing the need for clonal isolation.

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• Parsimonious Gene Correlation Network Analysis (PGCNA): a tool to define modular gene co-expression for refined molecular stratification in cancer.

  PMID 30993001 · PMC6459838 · NPJ systems biology and applications · 2019 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Retaining only the top ~3 most correlated edges per gene (EPG3) combined with FastUnfold clustering (termed PGCNA) produces gene co-expression modules with significantly better separation and enrichment of known biology than using all edges or other clustering methods.

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• Tumor methionine metabolism drives T-cell exhaustion in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 33674593 · PMC7935900 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A transcriptome-derived T-cell exhaustion score (ES) is prognostic for HCC patient survival independent of known clinical/molecular factors

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• Comparison of RNA-Seq by poly (A) capture, ribosomal RNA depletion, and DNA microarray for expression profiling.

  PMID 24888378 · PMC4070569 · BMC genomics · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Ribo-Zero-Seq removes rRNA with efficiency comparable to poly(A)-based mRNA-Seq in both FF and FFPE RNA, whereas DSN-Seq leaves significantly more rRNA and shows greater variation.

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• MAZ-mediated tumor progression and immune evasion in hormone receptor-positive breast cancer: Targeting tumor microenvironment and PCLAF+ subtype-specific therapy.

  PMID 39805182 · PMC11780959 · Translational oncology · 2025 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  A C3 PCLAF+ tumor cell subtype identified by scRNA-seq shows high proliferation/differentiation potential and is linked to aggressive tumor behavior and poor prognosis in HR+BC

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• Metapipeline-DNA: A comprehensive germline and somatic genomics Nextflow pipeline.

  PMID 41850291 · PMC13030954 · Cell reports methods · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Metapipeline-DNA automates germline and somatic DNA sequencing analysis end-to-end, from raw reads through preprocessing, feature detection, QC, and visualization.

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• Pan-Cancer Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Analysis Refines Multi-Origin Monocyte and Macrophage Lineages.

  PMID 41231218 · PMC12865363 · Cancer immunology research · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  TAMs arise from two distinct origins: C1QC+ TAMs likely derive from resident tissue macrophages, while SPP1+ TAMs and ISG15+ TAMs likely originate from circulating monocytes.

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• Advancing Prognosis Prediction and Immunotherapy Efficacy in Lung Adenocarcinoma Through Machine Learning: Novel Insights From Anoikis Regulator Patterns in Single-Cell Multiomics.

  PMID 41488744 · PMC12764181 · International journal of genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Epithelial and endothelial cells show the highest anoikis-enriched scores among LUAD TME cell types, with AT2-like Epi being the most anoikis-related epithelial subpopulation.

  luad pan-cancer tumor scrna-seq spatial bulk

• Identify GDPD3 as a key regulator of epithelial-mesenchymal transition and prostate adenocarcinoma progression via the LPA/LPAR1/AKT axis: transcriptomic and experimental study.

  PMID 41562071 · PMC12813044 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  GDPD3 is upregulated in PRAD tumor tissue and its knockdown inhibits tumor cell proliferation, invasion, and migration

  prad tcga-prad du145 scrna-seq bulk wgcna

• Multimodal profiling of pancreatic cancer reveals a TIMP-1-dominated secretory profile determining pro-tumor immunoinstruction in human cancers.

  PMID 41564862 · PMC12866174 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A 19-factor cancer-immunoinstructive secretory signature (CISS) is present across multiple human cancers and correlates with pro-tumorigenic tumor microenvironments and poor patient survival.

  pancreatic kpc pdac tcga-paad rna-seq bulk proteomics

• Evaluating deconvolution methods using real bulk RNA-expression data for robust prognostic insights across cancer types.

  PMID 41566530 · PMC12906006 · Genome biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Pseudobulk and real bulk RNA-seq deconvolution performance differ significantly, and method ranking consistency is lower between pseudobulk and real bulk than within either data type alone

  breast real colon tcga paired pseudobulk bulk

• FAP expression as a marker of malignant transformation enabling in vivo characterization in peripheral nerve sheath tumors: a multimodal and translational study.

  PMID 41591566 · PMC12847211 · Acta neuropathologica · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  FAP is consistently upregulated in MPNSTs compared to neurofibromas at the transcript level across independent bulk datasets

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• ISG15-driven immune modulation and tumor progression in breast cancer metastasis: insights from single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

  PMID 41639695 · PMC12958617 · BMC medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CSC proportion is elevated in lymph node metastatic tumor tissue (BRCA_LNMT) compared to primary tumor (BRCA_PT)

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