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).

• Similarities and Differences in Gene Expression Networks Between the Breast Cancer Cell Line Michigan Cancer Foundation-7 and Invasive Human Breast Cancer Tissues.

  PMID 34056582 · PMC8155268 · Frontiers in artificial intelligence · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MCF-7 cell lines and human breast cancer tissues show only minimal similarity in biological processes, though some fundamental functions like cell cycle are conserved.

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• Elucidating the Prognostic and Therapeutic Implications of Insulin Resistance Genes in Breast Cancer: A Machine Learning-Powered Analysis.

  PMID 40427728 · PMC12109394 · Biology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A seven-gene IRG prognostic signature (LIFR, EZR, TBC1D4, NSF, RPL5, SAA1, PGK1) predicts overall survival in breast cancer across training and four validation cohorts

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• Fast, accurate, and racially unbiased pan-cancer tumor-only variant calling with tabular machine learning.

  PMID 36611079 · PMC9825621 · NPJ precision oncology · 2023 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Tabular ML classifiers (TabNet, XGBoost, LightGBM) trained on tumor-only-derived features achieve state-of-the-art somatic vs germline classification, with AUC>94% on TCGA holdout and AUC>85% on metastatic melanoma.

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• Bioinformatics Analysis of the Characteristics and Correlation of m6A Methylation in Breast Cancer Progression.

  PMID 35655723 · PMC9148239 · Contrast media & molecular imaging · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Breast cancer samples can be classified into 4 m6A subtypes (quiescent, m6A methylation, protein-binding, mixed) based on Z-score median of Set1 (writer+reader) and Set2 (eraser) gene expression

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• Involvement of N4BP2L1, PLEKHA4, and BEGAIN genes in breast cancer and muscle cell development.

  PMID 38859961 · PMC11163233 · Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  N4BP2L1, PLEKHA4, and BEGAIN, normally highly expressed in breast myoepithelial and smooth muscle cells, are significantly downregulated in breast tumor tissue of a 50-patient cohort

  breast paired embryonic hesc-derived bulk rt-qpcr immunofluorescence

• A reference profile-free deconvolution method to infer cancer cell-intrinsic subtypes and tumor-type-specific stromal profiles.

  PMID 32111252 · PMC7049190 · Genome medicine · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DeClust is a reference-profile-free deconvolution method that incorporates molecular subtyping directly into the deconvolution process, outputting cohort-level cancer subtype and stromal reference profiles rather than per-individual profiles

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• Automatic discovery of 100-miRNA signature for cancer classification using ensemble feature selection.

  PMID 31533612 · PMC6751684 · BMC bioinformatics · 2019 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  An ensemble feature selection strategy using consensus of feature relevance across 8 classifier types identifies a 100-miRNA signature from a 1046-feature TCGA dataset

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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.

  breast colorectal brca representative gene comparative multi-omic

• Detecting aberrant DNA methylation in Illumina DNA methylation arrays: a toolbox and recommendations for its use.

  PMID 37218167 · PMC10208159 · Epigenetics · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Developed OutlierMeth, an R package that computes probe-specific thresholds and flags DNA methylation outliers from array data

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• DeepProg: an ensemble of deep-learning and machine-learning models for prognosis prediction using multi-omics data.

  PMID 34261540 · PMC8281595 · Genome medicine · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  DeepProg is a novel ensemble framework of deep-learning and machine-learning approaches that robustly predicts patient survival subtypes using multi-omics data

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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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• Integrating multi-omics data reveals the antitumor role and clinical benefits of gamma-delta T cells in triple-negative breast cancer.

  PMID 40197136 · PMC11974128 · BMC cancer · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  High γδT cell infiltration is associated with favorable prognosis in TNBC but not in HR-positive or HER2-positive breast cancer

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• Analyzing biomarker discovery: Estimating the reproducibility of biomarker sets.

  PMID 35901020 · PMC9333302 · PloS one · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Non-reproducibility is a common problem in biomarker discovery: independently derived biomarker sets for the same phenotype frequently share very few features across studies

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• Deciphering the Immune Microenvironment at the Forefront of Tumor Aggressiveness by Constructing a Regulatory Network with Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomic Data.

  PMID 38254989 · PMC10815467 · Genes · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  High expression of transcription factors FOXA1 and EZH2 in malignant cells at the invasive front plays a key role in driving tumor progression

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• Identification and validation of a metabolic-related gene risk model predicting the prognosis of lung, colon, and breast cancers.

  PMID 39779736 · PMC11711664 · Scientific reports · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  540 DEGs overlap across breast, colorectal, and lung cancers out of 11,384 DEGs analyzed

  breast colorectal lung common microarray kegg protein-protein

• Advances in genomic and pharmacokinetic profiling for clinical stratification of metastatic breast cancer.

  PMID 41369820 · PMC12799884 · Discover oncology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Key genes AR, AKT1, UBC, CDH1, SMAD3, ROR1, and ROR2 are associated with chemotherapy resistance and poor prognosis in metastatic breast cancer

  breast tcga-brca geo gse40622 gene pan-cancer differential

• Migratory Tumor Cells Cooperate with Cancer Associated Fibroblasts in Hormone Receptor-Positive and HER2-Negative Breast Cancer.

  PMID 38892065 · PMC11172245 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  HR+/HER2-BC tumor epithelial cells comprise four single-cell-defined functional (SC-f) subtypes: migratory, secretory, proliferating, and dysfunctional.

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• scATD: a high-throughput and interpretable framework for single-cell cancer drug resistance prediction and biomarker identification.

  PMID 40501071 · PMC12159290 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  scATD enables high-throughput single-cell drug sensitivity prediction for new patients without model parameter retraining via bidirectional Bi-AdaIN style transfer

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