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).

• Mining expressed sequence tags identifies cancer markers of clinical interest.

  PMID 17078886 · PMC1635568 · BMC bioinformatics · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  An EST-mining approach (Fisher Exact Test on tumor vs. non-tumor library hit counts) identifies differentially expressed transcripts with an estimated false discovery rate below 22% when human and mouse screens are combined.

  dbest cancer gene est human-mouse leave-one-out

• APC promoter methylation and protein expression in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 17973119 · PMC2757596 · Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2008 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  APC promoter methylation is significantly higher in HCC compared to non-cancerous liver tissue

  hcc liver cholangiocellular benign methylight truncation western

• Hierarchical classification-based pan-cancer methylation analysis to classify primary cancer.

  PMID 38066424 · PMC10709847 · BMC bioinformatics · 2023 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  CHCT, a hierarchical classification tool, splits classification of 30 cancer types into ten smaller subproblems using a two-tier architecture to classify primary cancer by methylation profile

  cancer clinical training independent methylation upgma random

• B-RAF and N-RAS mutations are preserved during short time in vitro propagation and differentially impact prognosis.

  PMID 17311103 · PMC1794595 · PloS one · 2007 · 5 claims · 4 setups

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  B-RAF and N-RAS mutation status is well preserved (strongly concordant) between tumor tissue biopsies and corresponding short-term in vitro propagated cell lines.

  tumor biopsy-derived metastatic pcr direct survival

• Comparative analysis of molecular signatures reveals a hybrid approach in breast cancer: Combining the Nottingham Prognostic Index with gene expressions into a hybrid signature.

  PMID 35143511 · PMC8830616 · PloS one · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A hybrid signature combining the Nottingham Prognostic Index with SIS-selected gene expressions can be built in a data-driven fashion (NPI treated as a gene expression during feature selection).

  metabric scan-b gene rna-seq feature

• 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

  hcc tcga paired snu-449 lncrna sequencing univariate

• Prospective health care: the second transformation of medicine.

  PMID 16522218 · PMC1431721 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Predictive biomarkers (genomic, proteomic, metabolomic) will enable quantification of disease risk and anticipation of onset before pathological damage occurs.

  cancer circulating breast population gene-expression proteomic 21-gene

• Enhancing chemotherapy response prediction via matched colorectal tumor-organoid gene expression analysis and network-based biomarker selection.

  PMID 39754813 · PMC11754497 · Translational oncology · 2025 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  A consensus WGCNA approach combining matched tumor-organoid and independent organoid drug-response expression data identifies gene modules and hub genes predictive of 5-FU chemotherapy response

  colorectal matched combined expression microarray rna-seq consensus

• 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

  tcga-brca triple-negative ffpe bulk univariate kaplan-meier

• 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.

  tcga metastatic tumor-only whole-exome wes copy-number

• Prognostic significance of p53 and ras gene abnormalities in lung adenocarcinoma patients with stage I disease after curative resection.

  PMID 7852188 · PMC5919395 · Japanese journal of cancer research : Gann · 1994 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  Presence of p53 gene abnormalities is associated with shorter disease-free survival in stage I lung adenocarcinoma

  formalin-fixed stage pcr-dgge immunohistochemistry pcr-rflp

• WAF1/CIP1 structural abnormalities do not contribute to cell cycle deregulation in ovarian cancer.

  PMID 8645586 · PMC2074480 · British journal of cancer · 1996 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  No WAF1/CIP1 coding mutations were found in any of 36 ovarian carcinomas sequenced, including tumors with LOH on 6p and those lacking p53 mutations

  ovarian blood tumor pcr sequencing loss

• Bayesian model accounting for within-class biological variability in Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE).

  PMID 15339345 · PMC517707 · BMC bioinformatics · 2004 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  A Bayesian mixture model is proposed to account for within-class biological variability in SAGE/Digital-Northern/MPSS tag counting data.

  astrocytoma same sage classical beta-binomial

• Identification of BRCA1 missense substitutions that confer partial functional activity: potential moderate risk variants?

  PMID 18036263 · PMC2246181 · Breast cancer research : BCR · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Revised multifactorial likelihood analysis incorporating ER, CK5/6, and CK14 tumor immunohistochemistry improves classification of BRCA1 unclassified variants

  archival kconfab myriad lymphoblastoid immunohistochemistry multifactorial co-occurrence

• A role for the p53 pathway in the pathology of meningiomas with NF2 loss.

  PMID 18974932 · PMC2692701 · Journal of neuro-oncology · 2009 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  The Pro72 allele of p53 codon 72 was not selected for in the meningioma cohort, and its distribution did not differ from control populations, indicating no role in meningioma initiation.

  sporadic meningioma loss pcr-rflp histopathological

• Clinical characterization and the mutation spectrum in Swedish adenomatous polyposis families.

  PMID 18433509 · PMC2386495 · BMC medicine · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A combination of mutation-screening techniques (PTT, SSCP/HD, D-HPLC, sequencing, MLPA, mosaicism analysis, expression analysis) achieved a 100% mutation detection frequency in classical FAP

  peripheral genomic cdna truncation sscp d-hplc

• High-resolution array comparative genomic hybridization of single micrometastatic tumor cells.

  PMID 18344524 · PMC2367728 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A protocol combining PCR-based whole genome amplification with arrays of highly purified BAC clones enables detection of DNA copy number changes in single cells

  single bac amplified pi-scei array quantitative dot

• Identification of genes associated with multiple cancers via integrative analysis.

  PMID 19919702 · PMC2785840 · BMC genomics · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Mc.TGD (Multi-cancer Threshold Gradient Descent) is the first regularized approach to conduct two-dimensional selection of genes with joint effects on cancer development across multiple cancers.

  breast kidney liver lung gene wilcoxon

• PCR-free method detects high frequency of genomic instability in prostate cancer.

  PMID 19797393 · PMC2794161 · Nucleic acids research · 2009 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  A novel PCR-free random cloning/sequencing method can detect genomic variants that PCR-based approaches miss in heterogeneous tumor genomes.

  blood normal prostate matched pcr-free degenerate-pcr blastn

• Functional copy-number alterations in cancer.

  PMID 18784837 · PMC2527508 · PloS one · 2008 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  RAE is a comprehensive computational framework that robustly maps chromosomal alterations in tumor samples and statistically assesses their functional importance in cancer.

  pleomorphic hapmap large snp computational