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).

• 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

  Has reproduction · 94

  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

  nsclc coad brca tcga scrna-seq bulk rna-seq

• Utilizing the codon adaptation index to evaluate the susceptibility to HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses in possible target cells in humans.

  PMID 36760235 · PMC9905242 · Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 71

  CAI is positively correlated with translational efficiency, supporting its use as a proxy for viral mRNA translation in cell types.

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• Cell Specific eQTL Analysis without Sorting Cells.

  PMID 25955312 · PMC4425538 · PLoS genetics · 2015 · 5 claims · 3 setups

  Has reproduction · 90

  A genome-environment interaction meta-analysis on whole blood can predict neutrophil- and lymphocyte-specific cis-eQTLs without sorting cells.

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• Cell-type annotation with accurate unseen cell-type identification using multiple references.

  PMID 37379341 · PMC10335708 · PLoS computational biology · 2023 · 8 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 68

  mtANN integrates multiple reference datasets and eight gene selection methods via ensemble learning (multiple deep classification models + majority voting) to improve cell-type annotation accuracy

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• Hierarchical cell-type identifier accurately distinguishes immune-cell subtypes enabling precise profiling of tissue microenvironment with single-cell RNA-sequencing.

  PMID 36681937 · PMC10025442 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  HiCAT is a hierarchical, marker-based cell-type identifier that uses gene set analysis (GSA) scoring with markers structured in a three-level taxonomy tree (major-type, minor-type, subset)

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• Estimating and Correcting for Off-Target Cellular Contamination in Brain Cell Type Specific RNA-Seq Data.

  PMID 33746712 · PMC7966716 · Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2021 · 6 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 50

  A computational method using high-quality scRNA-seq reference data can estimate per-sample, per-cell-type off-target contamination coefficients in sctRNA-seq datasets.

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• Cell type- and species-specific regulation of hepatic lncRNAs by TCDD-activated aryl hydrocarbon receptor.

  PMID 41136526 · PMC12552753 · Scientific reports · 2025 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 71

  TCDD elicits dose-dependent AHR-mediated differential expression of hepatic lncRNAs in both mouse and rat liver, with more DE lncRNAs in mice than rats and a subset conserved across species.

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• Endothelial Adgrl2 Expression and Alternative Splicing Controls the Cerebrovasculature.

  PMID 41876233 · PMC13108381 · The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 75

  Endothelial cell-specific Adgrl2 deletion impairs cerebrovascular integrity (blood–brain barrier).

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• Cell type-specific eQTL analysis of COVID-19 based on single-cell transcriptomic data.

  PMID 41064594 · PMC12501775 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 51

  Single-cell eQTL analysis across eight immune cell types identified 2593 genes whose expression is significantly associated with common genetic polymorphisms, with most genes showing cell type-specific effects

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• Digital sorting of complex tissues for cell type-specific gene expression profiles.

  PMID 23497278 · PMC3626856 · BMC bioinformatics · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  The Digital Sorting Algorithm (DSA) deconvolves mixed tissue expression into cell type-specific profiles using only marker genes, without requiring prior knowledge of cell type frequencies or in vitro pure-cell profiles.

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• Cell-Type-Specific Gene Modules Related to the Regional Homogeneity of Spontaneous Brain Activity and Their Associations With Common Brain Disorders.

  PMID 33958982 · PMC8093778 · Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 59

  Fourteen gene modules were consistently associated with ReHo across three independent fMRI datasets.

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• Single cell analysis reveals the roles and regulatory mechanisms of type-I interferons in Parkinson's disease.

  PMID 38566100 · PMC10985960 · Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 55

  Microglia, endothelial cells, and pericytes exhibit the highest type I interferon (IFN-I) activity among PD midbrain cell types, with microglia showing markedly higher activity in PD.

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• Systems spatiotemporal dynamics of traumatic brain injury at single-cell resolution reveals humanin as a therapeutic target.

  PMID 35951114 · PMC9372016 · Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 98

  Coordinated gene expression patterns across cell types are disrupted and re-organized by mTBI with distinct regional, cellular, and temporal (24-h vs 7-day) specificity.

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• A comparative analysis of blastoid models through single-cell transcriptomics.

  PMID 39524369 · PMC11543915 · iScience · 2024 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 60

  EPSC-derived blastoids are transcriptomically distinct from nPSC-derived blastoids, with nPSC-blastoids clustering closer to natural blastocysts.

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• HArmonized single-cell RNA-seq Cell type Assisted Deconvolution (HASCAD).

  PMID 37907883 · PMC10619225 · BMC medical genomics · 2023 · 6 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  HASCAD, a DNN-based cell composition deconvolution model, predicts the fractions of up to 15 immune cell types from bulk RNA-seq.

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• Mouse-Geneformer: A deep learning model for mouse single-cell transcriptome and its cross-species utility.

  PMID 40106407 · PMC11964219 · PLoS genetics · 2025 · 7 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 95

  Mouse-Geneformer, a Transformer Encoder model pre-trained via masked-token self-supervised learning on mouse-Genecorpus-20M, was successfully constructed following the original human Geneformer architecture.

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• Deep transcriptomics reveals cell-specific isoforms of pan-neuronal genes.

  PMID 40379625 · PMC12084633 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 84

  Pan-neuronal genes (expressed in many/all neurons) harbor highly cell-specific splice variants/isoforms restricted to single or few neuron types.

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• Leveraging RNA-seq deconvolution to improve complex in vitro model characterization.

  PMID 40701251 · PMC12391696 · The Journal of biological chemistry · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  RNA-seq deconvolution can predict cell type proportions from bulk RNA-seq using scRNA-seq references, offering a useful characterization tool for CIVMs where single-cell methods are impractical

  intestine rodent duodenal neonatal bulk scrna-seq marker

• FEM: mining biological meaning from cell level in single-cell RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 34909283 · PMC8641482 · PeerJ · 2021 · 7 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 75

  The FEM algorithm converts each cell's gene expression matrix (GEM) into a functional expression matrix by applying Fisher's exact test enrichment per cell and per gene set, then encoding adjusted p-values as information content.

  peripheral pancreas liver pbmc scrna-seq differential dimensionality

• scSAMAC: saliency-adjusted masking induced attention contrastive learning for single-cell clustering.

  PMID 40131310 · PMC11934584 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 1 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  scSAMAC integrates contrastive learning and negative binomial (NB) losses into a VAE, extracting features via contrastive unit similarity while preserving intrinsic data characteristics to enhance robustness and generalization in clustering.

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