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).

• In vivo antiviral host transcriptional response to SARS-CoV-2 by viral load, sex, and age.

  PMID 32898168 · PMC7478592 · PLoS biology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 89

  SARS-CoV-2 infection induces a strong interferon-driven antiviral response in the nasopharynx, with up-regulation of viral sensors, T cell/NK chemokines, and antiviral effectors

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• eVITTA: a web-based visualization and inference toolbox for transcriptome analysis.

  PMID 34019643 · PMC8218201 · Nucleic acids research · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 82

  eVITTA is a web-based toolbox with three integrated modules (easyGEO, easyGSEA, easyVizR) for GEO data access, functional profiling, and multi-dataset comparison

  nasopharyngeal elegans bulk pre-ranked microarray

• Transcriptome and machine learning analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on mitochondria and multiorgan damage.

  PMID 38295140 · PMC10830027 · PloS one · 2024 · 6 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 71

  Potential cardiac, hepatic, and renal impairments in COVID-19 are associated with ACE2, inflammatory cytokine storms, and mitochondrial pathways.

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• Discovery and functional interrogation of SARS-CoV-2 RNA-host protein interactions.

  PMID 33743211 · PMC7951565 · Cell · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 84

  ChIRP-MS of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in infected Huh7.5 and Vero E6 cells identifies a comprehensive set of 309 host proteins that bind the viral RNA during active infection

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• VGEA: an RNA viral assembly toolkit.

  PMID 34567846 · PMC8428259 · PeerJ · 2021 · 8 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 80

  VGEA is a Snakemake workflow that chains existing tools (fastp, BWA, SAMtools, IVA, shiver, SeqKit, QUAST, MultiQC) into an all-in-one RNA viral genome assembly pipeline

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• EDGE COVID-19: a web platform to generate submission-ready genomes from SARS-CoV-2 sequencing efforts.

  PMID 35561186 · PMC9113274 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2022 · 7 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 49

  EDGE COVID-19 (EC-19) is a web-based platform that automates QC, reference-based variant/consensus calling, lineage determination, and submission of SARS-CoV-2 genomes and metadata to GenBank, GISAID and INSDC for both Illumina and ONT data.

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• Intra-Host Co-Existing Strains of SARS-CoV-2 Reference Genome Uncovered by Exhaustive Computational Search.

  PMID 37243151 · PMC10224212 · Viruses · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 100

  An exhaustive-search workflow can recover intra-host co-existing SARS-CoV-2 strains from the reference-genome read set (SRR11092062) that de Bruijn-graph assemblers discard.

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• SARS-CoV genome polymorphism: a bioinformatics study.

  PMID 16144519 · PMC5172477 · Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2005 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  SARS-CoV isolates can be classified into groups/subgroups based on the number and distribution of SNVs and INDELs relative to a 'profile' sequence, and this classification aligns with phylogenetic tree relationships and epidemiological spread.

  sars-cov annotated spike whole-genome positional codon

• Genomic sequencing of the severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus.

  PMID 16916263 · PMC7121524 · Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2006 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  PCR-based amplification and direct sequencing of SARS-CoV genome fragments is feasible from uncultured clinical specimens (serum, nasopharyngeal aspirate, stool), avoiding culture-derived artifacts and biohazard risk.

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• International research networks in viral structural proteomics: again, lessons from SARS.

  PMID 18054092 · PMC2793675 · Antiviral research · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  International research networks (SPINE, VIZIER, FSPS, SEPSDA, SARS-DTV) coordinated a global effort to structurally characterize the SARS-CoV proteome

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• Structural proteomics of the SARS coronavirus: a model response to emerging infectious diseases.

  PMID 17680348 · PMC7088133 · Journal of structural and functional genomics · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Structures of 16 SARS-CoV proteins or functional domains have been determined, and 8 of these have novel folds

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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

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

• WEPP: Phylogenetic placement achieves near-haplotype resolution in wastewater-based epidemiology.

  PMID 41911220 · PMC13048486 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  WEPP is a pathogen-agnostic pipeline that uses phylogenetic placement of sequencing reads onto mutation-annotated trees (MATs) to identify candidate haplotypes and estimate their abundances

  sars-cov-2 mutation-annotated simulated synthetic real-world

• Profiling Selective Packaging of Host RNA and Viral RNA Modification in SARS-CoV-2 Viral Preparations.

  PMID 35186917 · PMC8851031 · Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 3 setups

  Has reproduction · 56

  SARS-CoV-2 viral preparations show selective enrichment of specific host tRNAs, tRNA fragments, and SRP RNA compared to uninfected VeroE6 cells

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• Addressing pandemic-wide systematic errors in the SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny.

  PMID 41663577 · PMC12982125 · Nature methods · 2026 · 6 claims · 3 setups

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  Most SARS-CoV-2 genomes were sequenced using tiled amplicon methods, which introduce systematic errors unless assembly software is aware of the amplicon scheme and the error modes of amplicon sequencing

  sars-cov-2 amplicon-aware simulation global

• 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

• SARS--beginning to understand a new virus.

  PMID 15035025 · PMC7097337 · Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2003 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A previously unknown coronavirus (SARS-CoV) was isolated from FRhK-4 and Vero E6 cells inoculated with clinical specimens from SARS patients and identified as the causative agent of SARS

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• Single-cell RNA-sequencing highlights a curtailed NK cell function in convalescent COVID-19 pregnant women.

  PMID 40661959 · PMC12257036 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 7 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 87

  NK cells show a sustained reduction during active SARS-CoV-2 infection and persisting after recovery in pregnant women

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• The SARS-CoV-2 subgenome landscape and its novel regulatory features.

  PMID 33713597 · PMC7927579 · Molecular cell · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 84

  Template switching in SARS-CoV-2 can occur bidirectionally, generating diverse subgenomes through successive template-switching events

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• Betacoronavirus-specific alternate splicing.

  PMID 35074468 · PMC8782732 · Genomics · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 100

  Genes differentially spliced during SARS-CoV-2 infection show a similar functional (GO) profile to those differentially spliced in SARS-CoV and MERS infection, affecting a diverse set of genes tied to virus biology.

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