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).

• Clustering and machine learning-based integration identify cancer associated fibroblasts genes' signature in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

  PMID 37065499 · PMC10098459 · Frontiers in genetics · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Clustering of 31 CAFs genes across 868 HNSCC samples identifies two distinct molecular patterns (C1, C2) with different survival outcomes

  hnscc combined gse164690 tcga-hnsc ssgsea unsupervised immune

• Assessment tool based on fatty acid metabolic signatures for predicting the prognosis and treatment response in bladder cancer.

  PMID 38076064 · PMC10703629 · Heliyon · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Consensus clustering of prognosis-related fatty acid metabolism genes (FAMGs) identifies three molecular subtypes of BLCA (FAMC1, FAMC2, FAMC3) with distinct prognoses and tumor microenvironments

  tcga-blca famc1-3 differentially gse32894 bulk consensus gene

• Novel fatty acid metabolism-related molecular subtyping and prognostic signature for breast cancer.

  PMID 41674979 · PMC12885896 · Translational cancer research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A FAM-related gene prognostic model (FAMGM) built using CoxBoost and random survival forest was identified as the optimal model among 101 machine learning combinations, based on highest average C-index across TCGA-BRCA and GSE96058 cohorts

  tcga-brca gse96058 brca breast bulk single-cell spatial

• Construction of a SEMA3 family-based model to predict prognosis and molecular subtypes in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 41792569 · PMC13079247 · Discover oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SEMA3 family expression defines two molecular subtypes (A and B) of PDAC with significantly different overall survival

  pdac bulk ssgsea differential

• 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

• Multi-omics analyses related to mitochondria and ageing in triple-negative breast cancer implicate PYCR1 potentiates tumor progression.

  PMID 41749247 · PMC13041056 · Cancer cell international · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A 4-gene mitochondrial ageing-related risk score (MARS) model (PYCR1, MAPT, CEBPA, BCL2A1) predicts TNBC prognosis

  tcga-brca gse58812 gse18728 metabric bulk single-cell immunohistochemistry

• CCL3+ Neutrophil Signature Predicts Response to Neoadjuvant Toripalimab plus Chemotherapy in Patients with Hypopharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Phase II Trial.

  PMID 41817286 · PMC13223550 · Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A proinflammatory, CCL3-high neutrophil subset (Neu_CCL3) is significantly enriched in the pretreatment tumor microenvironment of patients who respond to nCIT.

  pretreatment microarray cohorts moc1 single-cell bulk immunohistochemistry

• Predicting Bone Metastasis Using Gene Expression-Based Machine Learning Models.

  PMID 34858485 · PMC8631472 · Frontiers in genetics · 2021 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  A DNN model built on 34 top-ranked hub genes achieves the highest prediction accuracy (AUC 92.11%) for distinguishing primary from bone-metastasized tumors

  breast degs geo tcga microarray protein-protein machine

• TOSCA: an automated Tumor Only Somatic CAlling workflow for somatic mutation detection without matched normal samples.

  PMID 36699358 · PMC9710689 · Bioinformatics advances · 2022 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  TOSCA is the first automated, modular open-source tumor-only somatic calling workflow for whole-exome and targeted panel sequencing, covering raw reads through variant classification.

  t-cell hcc1395 clinical targeted whole-exome

• Single-cell resolution of an open chromatin signature in persister tumor cells.

  PMID 41485222 · PMC12978573 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-nucleus multi-omic (snRNA-seq + snATAC-seq) profiling of fallopian tube, treatment-naive, and NACT-treated HGSOC tissue identifies a persister cell signature (PCS) defining the chemotherapy-tolerant state.

  non-malignant same epithelial tumor single-nucleus mitochondrial copy-number

• FOXA1 mutations co-opt nascent transcription factor networks in partnership with androgen receptor to enhance prostate tumorigenicity.

  PMID 41621066 · PMC13050545 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  FOXA1 mutations in a 874-tumor cohort cluster into missense, in-frame indel, and truncation subgroups, with indels concentrated at residues M253/E255

  prostate targeted single-nucleus scatac-seq

• DeCAF defines clinical fibroblast subtypes and multidimensional tumor-stroma crosstalk shaping prognosis and immunotherapy response.

  PMID 41707654 · PMC12923980 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DeCAF is a single-sample kTSP classifier using 9 TSP gene pairs that predicts proCAF vs restCAF subtypes from bulk expression data

  pdac cptac external elyada-sc bulk single-sample classifier

• Integrative bulk and single-cell transcriptomics link EZH2 to immunosuppressive programs and tumor-Treg crosstalk in castration-resistant prostate cancer.

  PMID 41710887 · PMC12909565 · Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Higher EZH2 expression is associated with adverse clinical outcomes in bulk PCa/CRPC cohorts

  tcga-prad su2c gse264573 gse137829 bulk scrna-seq ligand-receptor

• Multi-cohort and single-cell profiling of aging genes reveals prognostic and therapeutic targets in breast cancer.

  PMID 41732271 · PMC12924738 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The eight-gene MLAG signature outperforms 100 previously published prognostic models across 12 independent breast cancer cohorts

  tcga-brca senescent normal single-cell machine univariate gene

• Multi-omics analyses related to unfolded protein response in prostate cancer implicate pro-tumor role of IFRD1.

  PMID 41694360 · PMC12894258 · Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Luminal prostate epithelial cells, especially the LE-KLK3 subpopulation, show elevated UPR activity compared to other cell types

  pca tcga-prad external scrna-seq bulk immune

• Orthogonal cytokine engineering enables novel synthetic effector states escaping canonical exhaustion in tumor-rejecting CD8(+) T cells.

  PMID 37081150 · PMC10154250 · Nature immunology · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Orthogonal engineering with PD1d/IL-2v/IL-33 reprograms adoptively transferred CD8+ T cells into a novel synthetic effector state (C5/TSE) that deviates from canonical TOX+ exhaustion

  cd8+ b16-ova ot1 mice scrna-seq flow secretion

• PD-1 blockade potentiates neoadjuvant chemotherapy in NSCLC via increasing CD127(+) and KLRG1(+) CD8 T cells.

  PMID 37231145 · PMC10213055 · NPJ precision oncology · 2023 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  NAPC produces higher major pathological response (MPR) and pathological complete response (pCR) rates and longer DFS/OS than NAC alone

  cd45+ ffpe scrna-seq cd8+ single-cell multiplex gene

• Qualitative Transcriptional Signature for the Pathological Diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer.

  PMID 33173782 · PMC7538791 · Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2020 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A 12-gene-pair (17-gene) REO-based signature discriminates PC and cancer-adjacent normal tissue from non-tumor (healthy/pancreatitis) pancreatic tissue.

  pancreatic normal pooled microarray rna-sequencing roc

• DNA methylation biomarkers-based pan-cancer classifier: predictive modeling for cancer classification.

  PMID 42152108 · PMC13185202 · Genome medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Relatively simple ML models (logistic regression) outperform complex algorithms such as deep neural networks for methylation-based cancer classification

  validation cns healthy genes methylation copy-number gene-set

• Single-cell mapping of cholesterol metabolism reveals FDPS as a therapeutic vulnerability in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 41706364 · PMC12916967 · Cellular oncology (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Cholesterol metabolic activity is markedly elevated in HCC tumors and in immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) non-responders, with pronounced intratumoral heterogeneity across malignant cell subpopulations

  hcc tcga-lihc malignant hepa1-6 scrna-seq bulk hdwgcna