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).

• The role of genomics in the identification, prediction, and prevention of biological threats.

  PMID 19855827 · PMC2757898 · PLoS biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Genomics should be used proactively, not just reactively, to build biopreparedness against biological threats

  bacillus escherichia sars pandemic whole-genome pangenomic low-resolution

• Rfam 15: RNA families database in 2025.

  PMID 39526405 · PMC11701678 · Nucleic acids research · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Rfamseq was expanded to 26,106 genomes, a 76% increase over Rfam 14.0, incorporating UniProt 2024_03 reference proteomes and additional viral genomes.

  rfamseq chains rfam hepatitis covariance structure-to-alignment covariation

• DNA sequencing: bench to bedside and beyond.

  PMID 17855400 · PMC2094077 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  DNA sequencing methods derived from Sanger's 1977 dideoxy method have dominated sequencing for 30 years despite being only incrementally refined.

  bacteriophage double-stranded single-stranded cloned plus maxam-gilbert dideoxy

• Whole-Genome Sequence of Cervid atadenovirus A from the Initial Cases of an Adenovirus Hemorrhagic Disease Epizootic of Black-Tailed Deer in Canada.

  PMID 36129291 · PMC9584332 · Microbiology resource announcements · 2022 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  A complete 30,616-nucleotide genome of Cervid atadenovirus A was determined from lung tissue of black-tailed deer that died of AHD in British Columbia in 2020

  lung sequencing assembled deer high-throughput metagenomic reference

• From Pasteur to genomics: progress and challenges in infectious diseases.

  PMID 15516917 · PMC7096024 · Nature medicine · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Genomic sequencing has revealed the blueprint of most pathogens, enabling new diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines including for previously uncultivable agents.

  bacterial neisseria sars hiv-infected whole-genome reverse nucleic

• Towards reliable whole genome sequencing for outbreak preparedness and response.

  PMID 35945497 · PMC9361258 · BMC genomics · 2022 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Amplicon-based Nanopore sequencing can rapidly generate whole genome sequences in samples with viral load up to Ct 33.

  culture aligned amplicon-based metagenomic capture-based

• Viruses take center stage in cellular evolution.

  PMID 16787527 · PMC1779534 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A large poxvirus-like dsDNA virus may have become the eukaryotic nucleus after being taken in by an ancestral cell (viral eukaryogenesis)

  acanthamoeba coccolithovirus nucleocytoplasmic dsdna whole-genome phylogenetic comparative

• Estimating biodiversity across the tree of life on Mount Everest's southern flank with environmental DNA.

  PMID 36148432 · PMC9486557 · iScience · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  eDNA from ten high-alpine ponds and streams (4,500-5,500 m) on Mt. Everest's southern flank revealed 187 potential orders from 36 phyla across the Tree of Life.

  edna khumbu genome metabarcoding satellite

• CLIMB-COVID: continuous integration supporting decentralised sequencing for SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance.

  PMID 34210356 · PMC8247108 · Genome biology · 2021 · 7 claims · 2 setups

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  A centralised hub model built on the CLIMB compute infrastructure (CLIMB-COVID) can integrate SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequencing data and sample metadata from a decentralised, autonomous network of sequencing sites into a single canonical dataset.

  sars-cov-2 whole-genome pcr

• A Deeper Insight into Evolutionary Patterns and Phylogenetic History of ASFV Epidemics in Sardinia (Italy) through Extensive Genomic Sequencing.

  PMID 34696424 · PMC8539718 · Viruses · 2021 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  58 new whole genomes of Sardinian ASFV isolates were sequenced, the largest ASFV whole-genome sequencing effort to date

  asfv b602l porcine sardinian whole-genome sanger haemoadsorption

• Massively parallel pyrosequencing in HIV research.

  PMID 18614863 · PMC4221253 · AIDS (London, England) · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Massively parallel pyrosequencing platforms (454/Roche, Solexa/Illumina) enable very high-throughput DNA sequencing, up to ~1 billion bases per run

  mammoth hiv hiv-infected honey pyrosequencing pcr 16s

• Comparing whole genomes using DNA microarrays.

  PMID 18347592 · PMC7097741 · Nature reviews. Genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  DNA microarrays offer a relatively inexpensive and efficient alternative to genome sequencing for comparing all known classes of genomic diversity between closely related genomes.

  genome saccharomyces mitochondrial sars array comparative resequencing

• Epidemiology and phylogenomic characterization of the Clade IIb C.1 Mpox outbreak in Phnom Penh, Cambodia (2023-2024).

  PMID 41575511 · PMC12978180 · Emerging microbes & infections · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  All Cambodian Mpox genomes belong to lineage C.1, nested within Clade IIb

  skin mpxv-positive raw cambodian real-time viral bioinformatic

• An Asilomar moment.

  PMID 12372138 · PMC244904 · Genome biology · 2002 · 7 claims · 3 setups

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  The current push to restrict genomics/pathogen research funding and publication due to bioterrorism fears parallels the 1975 Asilomar Conference response to recombinant DNA risks.

  mousepox chicken poliovirus gene targeted novo

• Co-circulation and evolution of polioviruses and species C enteroviruses in a district of Madagascar.

  PMID 18085822 · PMC2134956 · PLoS pathogens · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Madagascar VDPVs are intertypic/interspecies recombinants with Sabin 2-derived sequence in the 5'-half of the genome and HEV-C-derived sequence in the 3'-half

  vdpv mad04 pvr-tg21 hep-2c rt-pcr monoclonal plaque

• Optimizing data-driven excellence: Canada's approach to using pathogen test datasets for quality control, pipeline development and training initiatives.

  PMID 41591806 · PMC12847982 · Microbial genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Standardized SARS-CoV-2 test datasets (Illumina and Nanopore) were developed as benchmarks for validating sequencing/bioinformatics pipelines across Canadian public health labs

  sars-cov-2 extracted nasopharyngeal bioinformatic whole-genome triplex extraction

• Genetic diversity of swine influenza viruses isolated from pigs during 2000 to 2005 in Thailand.

  PMID 19453423 · PMC4941901 · Influenza and other respiratory viruses · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Phylogenetic analysis revealed nine distinct genotypes among the 12 Thai SIVs examined.

  swine nasal infectious embryonated rt-pcr subtype-specific viral

• Discovering the phylodynamics of RNA viruses.

  PMID 19855824 · PMC2756585 · PLoS computational biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A comprehensive 'discovery phase' integrating ecological and evolutionary dynamics of RNA viruses across scales is needed to achieve a full phylodynamic understanding

  h3n2 influenza avian foot-and-mouth bayesian phylogenetic whole-genome

• Genetic characterization of 2006-2008 isolates of Chikungunya virus from Kerala, South India, by whole genome sequence analysis.

  PMID 19851853 · PMC7088544 · Virus genes · 2010 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  37 novel mutations were identified across the six sequenced CHIKV genomes, predominantly in 2007 and 2008 isolates

  serum vero chikv additional rt-pcr virus whole-genome

• Human Retrotransposons and Effective Computational Detection Methods for Next-Generation Sequencing Data.

  PMID 36295018 · PMC9605557 · Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Retrotransposons mobilize via a copy-and-paste mechanism involving transcription of an RNA intermediate and reinsertion as a cDNA copy, unlike DNA transposons which cut-and-paste.

  drosophila normal genomic genome synthetic whole-genome computational