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).

• Severe COVID-19 Shares a Common Neutrophil Activation Signature with Other Acute Inflammatory States.

  PMID 35269470 · PMC8909161 · Cells · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  COVID-19 and HLH share a transcriptional overlap of 239 unique common differentially expressed genes (DEGs), 237 of which are up-regulated

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• COVID-19 lung disease shares driver AT2 cytopathic features with Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

  PMID 35870428 · PMC9297827 · EBioMedicine · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  COVID-19 lung disease resembles IPF at a fundamental level, recapitulating ViP/IPF gene expression patterns, an IL15-centric cytokine storm, and AT2 cytopathic changes (injury, DNA damage, transient progenitor-state arrest, senescence/SASP).

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• Bioinformatics and system biology approaches to identify pathophysiological impact of COVID-19 to the progression and severity of neurological diseases.

  PMID 34601390 · PMC8483812 · Computers in biology and medicine · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 69

  COVID-19 and neurological diseases (NDs) share pathophysiological connections that influence disease progression and severity

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• COVID-19 vaccination atlas using an integrative systems vaccinology approach.

  PMID 40456760 · PMC12130191 · NPJ vaccines · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  mRNA vaccines induce transient but strong immune responses after booster doses

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• Identifying COVID-19-Specific Transcriptomic Biomarkers with Machine Learning Methods.

  PMID 34307679 · PMC8272456 · BioMed research international · 2021 · 7 claims · 2 setups

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  A pipeline combining Boruta and mRMR feature selection with incremental feature selection (IFS) was used to identify COVID-19-specific transcriptomic biomarkers from blood gene expression data.

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• Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Engineered Human Tissues Using Clinical-Grade Soluble Human ACE2.

  PMID 32333836 · PMC7181998 · Cell · 2020 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 87

  Clinical-grade hrsACE2 significantly inhibits SARS-CoV-2 infection of Vero-E6 cells in a dose-dependent manner

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• Dynamic Gene Attention Focus (DyGAF): Enhancing Biomarker Identification Through Dual-Model Attention Networks.

  PMID 40160891 · PMC11951896 · Bioinformatics and biology insights · 2025 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  DyGAF, a dual-model attention neural network (independent Model A + dependent Model B), identifies and ranks genes by significance for COVID-19 biomarker discovery more effectively than differential expression analysis (DEA) and random forest (RF) feature selection

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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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• Assessing the impacts of COVID-19 vaccination programme's timing and speed on health benefits, cost-effectiveness, and relative affordability in 27 African countries.

  PMID 36882868 · PMC9991879 · BMC medicine · 2023 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 89

  Vaccination programmes with earlier start dates yield the most health benefits and lowest ICERs compared to late-starting programmes

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• DNA methylation profiles at hospital admission are associated with subsequent severe COVID-19 outcomes.

  PMID 42021404 · PMC13251264 · Clinical epigenetics · 2026 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  DNA methylation profiles at hospital admission differ among disease trajectory groups (TGs) and are associated with subsequent disease progression.

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• Methylation patterns of the nasal epigenome of hospitalized SARS-CoV-2 positive patients reveal insights into molecular mechanisms of COVID-19.

  PMID 40170038 · PMC11963311 · BMC medical genomics · 2025 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Differential DNA methylation occurs predominantly in intergenic regions and low methylated regions (LMRs), highlighting the role of distal regulatory elements in COVID-19 severity.

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• 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

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• Exploring phenotype-related single-cells through attention-enhanced representation learning.

  PMID 41566378 · PMC12906058 · Genome medicine · 2026 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  scPhase, an attention-based multiple instance learning (AMIL) framework with Mixture-of-Experts aggregation, predicts sample-level clinical phenotypes from raw scRNA-seq data and generalizes across patient cohorts

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• Discovery of key regulators in classical monocyte phenotypes linked to COVID-19 severity using single-cell multi-omics sequencing.

  PMID 41732268 · PMC12925236 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Two severity-associated classical monocyte (cMono) subtypes, IL7R+ and CD163+, exist with distinct transcriptional and epigenetic landscapes.

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• High-resolution profiling of pathways of escape for SARS-CoV-2 spike-binding antibodies.

  PMID 34010620 · PMC8096189 · Cell · 2021 · 8 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 87

  A Phage-DMS library tiling all single amino acid mutations across the SARS-CoV-2 spike ectodomain (plus D614G) was generated and validated with high sequence coverage.

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• Changes in social contacts in England during the COVID-19 pandemic between March 2020 and March 2021 as measured by the CoMix survey: A repeated cross-sectional study.

  PMID 35231023 · PMC8887739 · PLoS medicine · 2022 · 8 claims · 2 setups

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  Recorded social contacts in England decreased dramatically compared to prepandemic levels measured by the POLYMOD study

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• Systematic identification of ACE2 expression modulators reveals cardiomyopathy as a risk factor for mortality in COVID-19 patients.

  PMID 35012625 · PMC8743438 · Genome biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 9 setups

  Has reproduction · 68

  GENEVA (Gene Expression Variance Analysis) is a semi-automated framework that mines large-scale public RNA-seq datasets to identify conditions associated with a gene's expression variance

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• Inference of SARS-CoV-2 exposure biomarkers using large-scale T-cell repertoire profiling.

  PMID 41680899 · PMC12903587 · Genome medicine · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  A novel batch-effect correction method (log-normal gene usage modeling, Z-score normalization, and roulette-wheel resampling) allows combining AIRR-seq data from different batches and protocols.

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• Projecting contact matrices in 177 geographical regions: An update and comparison with empirical data for the COVID-19 era.

  PMID 34310590 · PMC8354454 · PLoS computational biology · 2021 · 6 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 98

  Updated synthetic contact matrices extend coverage from 152 to 177 geographical locations using the most recent demographic, household, and socio-demographic data

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• Single-cell dissection of chronic lung allograft dysfunction reveals convergent and distinct fibrotic mechanisms.

  PMID 41122970 · PMC12581678 · JCI insight · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 75

  CLAD exhibits specific cellular subsets including Fibro.AT2 cells, exhausted CD8+ T cells, and superactivated macrophages

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