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).

• Genome-wide analysis of the human Alu Yb-lineage.

  PMID 15588477 · PMC3525081 · Human genomics · 2004 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  1,733 Alu Yb-lineage elements are present on human autosomal chromosomes

  genome genomic non-human yb7 computational pcr-based pcr

• Continued colonization of the human genome by mitochondrial DNA.

  PMID 15361937 · PMC515365 · PLoS biology · 2004 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  NUMT insertion into nuclear chromosomes is an ongoing process shaped by double-strand-break repair (as shown in yeast) and continuing in humans.

  homo genomic chimpanzee genome genome-wide pcr sanger

• Non-EST based prediction of exon skipping and intron retention events using Pfam information.

  PMID 16204458 · PMC1243800 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  A novel ab initio method predicts exon skipping and intron retention events using only Pfam domain annotation, via a Viterbi-like dynamic programming algorithm applied to the Pfam alignment.

  refseq dbest genome pfam initio est comparative

• Comprehensive search for intra- and inter-specific sequence polymorphisms among coding envelope genes of retroviral origin found in the human genome: genes and pseudogenes.

  PMID 16150157 · PMC1236922 · BMC genomics · 2005 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  HERV-W (envW) and HERV-FRD (envFRD) envelope genes, both specifically expressed in placenta, show strong sequence conservation with only two nonsynonymous SNPs identified across 91 individuals

  genomic genotype 293t pcr-amplified pcr haplotype cell-cell

• Genome wide survey of G protein-coupled receptors in Tetraodon nigroviridis.

  PMID 16022726 · PMC1187884 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  466 Tetraodon GPCRs (Tnig-GPCRs) were identified genome-wide, of which 457 had not been previously reported

  tetraodon tnig-gpcr non-rhodopsin-like domain sequence transmembrane

• In vitro identification and in silico utilization of interspecies sequence similarities using GeneChip technology.

  PMID 15871745 · PMC1156887 · BMC genomics · 2005 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Only 14±2% of canine transcripts were detected by U133A probe sets versus 49±6% of human transcripts when hybridized to the same chip

  canine tissues hg-u133a probes microarray sequence ortholog

• Comparative gene finding in chicken indicates that we are closing in on the set of multi-exonic widely expressed human genes.

  PMID 15809229 · PMC1074396 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Comparative gene finding (SGP2) between human and chicken, followed by RT-PCR verification, adds at most ~0.2% new genes to the multi-exonic human gene catalog

  chicken predicted human-chicken cdna comparative blastp pairwise

• Evolutionary sequence analysis of complete eukaryote genomes.

  PMID 15762985 · PMC1274250 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A conservative genome-comparison method (MIA) identifies panorthologs — strict single-copy 1:1 orthologs containing only species divergences, no paralogy — to minimize errors from gene duplication in evolutionary sequence analysis.

  complete panortholog concatenated individual reciprocal sequence neighbor-joining

• Improvements to GALA and dbERGE II: databases featuring genomic sequence alignment, annotation and experimental results.

  PMID 15608239 · PMC539999 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  GALA is now a set of interlinked relational databases covering five vertebrate species: human, chimpanzee, mouse, rat and chicken.

  chromosome genomic comparative phylohmmcons conserved

• Genome-wide analyses of retrogenes derived from the human box H/ACA snoRNAs.

  PMID 17175533 · PMC1802619 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  202 novel box H/ACA RNA-related sequences were identified in the human genome

  genome chimpanzee aca flanking megablast comparative sequence

• AUGUSTUS at EGASP: using EST, protein and genomic alignments for improved gene prediction in the human genome.

  PMID 16925833 · PMC1810548 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  AUGUSTUS predicted significantly more genes correctly than any other ab initio program in EGASP

  genome human-mouse genes initio comparative extrinsic

• Strand bias in complementary single-nucleotide polymorphisms of transcribed human sequences: evidence for functional effects of synonymous polymorphisms.

  PMID 16916449 · PMC1559705 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Genome-wide, both intronic SNPs (iSNPs) and FFD SNPs show a significant excess of A→G over complementary T→C substitutions, confirming prior transcription-coupled repair (TCR) findings from a single chromosome 7 region.

  autosomal intronic chimpanzee genes comparative human-chimpanzee background

• Differences in the evolutionary history of disease genes affected by dominant or recessive mutations.

  PMID 16817963 · PMC1534034 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Dominant disease genes are more conserved at the protein level (mouse orthologues) than recessive disease genes.

  disease human-chimpanzee human-mouse-dog elegans sequence paralogue coding

• Computing Ka and Ks with a consideration of unequal transitional substitutions.

  PMID 16740169 · PMC1552089 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2006 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  MYN, a modified version of the Yang-Nielsen (YN) algorithm based on the Tamura-Nei Model, allows unequal transitional substitution rates between purines (κR) and pyrimidines (κY) plus codon frequency bias

  simulated pairs human-mouse human-dog computer comparative

• The jewels of our genome: the search for the genomic changes underlying the evolutionarily unique capacities of the human brain.

  PMID 16733552 · PMC1464830 · PLoS genetics · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Human and chimp genomes differ by ~35 million single nucleotide substitutions, corresponding to ~1.06% divergence after removing polymorphic sites

  chimpanzee chimp population non-human genome snp high-density

• Epigenetics and phenotypic variation in mammals.

  PMID 16688527 · PMC3906716 · Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Epigenetic modifications are mitotically heritable, but the fidelity of meiotic/transgenerational inheritance in mammals is poorly understood and evidence in mammals is scanty.

  mammalian mhc chromosomes embryonic methylation high-throughput chip

• A clustering property of highly-degenerate transcription factor binding sites in the mammalian genome.

  PMID 16670430 · PMC1456330 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Highly-degenerate RE1 sites are significantly enriched in promoters of validated and putative REST target genes compared to control promoters

  orthologous randomized high-score promoters pssm-based comparative motif

• Identification and evolutionary analysis of novel exons and alternative splicing events using cross-species EST-to-genome comparisons in human, mouse and rat.

  PMID 16536879 · PMC1479377 · BMC bioinformatics · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  ENACE, a cross-species EST-to-genome comparison algorithm, can identify novel cassette-on exons and retained introns for EST-scanty species and distinguish conserved vs lineage-specific exons

  presumably orthologous enace genes cross-species rt-pcr-sequencing nonsynonymous-to-synonymous

• Gene losses during human origins.

  PMID 16464126 · PMC1361800 · PLoS biology · 2006 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  A comparative genomic screen identified 67 new human-specific nonprocessed pseudogenes, bringing the total (with 13 from prior literature) to 80 human-specific pseudogenes.

  pseudogene chimpanzee human-specific population comparative phylogenetic fisher's

• Genome-wide identification of human functional DNA using a neutral indel model.

  PMID 16410828 · PMC1326222 · PLoS computational biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A neutral indel model predicting a geometric distribution of intergap segment (IGS) lengths fits human-mouse ancestral repeat (AR) alignment data excellently

  chromosome human-mouse genome individual whole-genome probabilistic comparative