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).

• Evaluation of classification and forecasting methods on time series gene expression data.

  PMID 33156855 · PMC7647064 · PloS one · 2020 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Deep learning based methods generally outperform traditional approaches for time series gene expression classification.

  gene gse6186 time short convolutional

• Identification of herpesvirus transcripts from genomic regions around the replication origins.

  PMID 37773348 · PMC10541914 · Scientific reports · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Herpesviruses display distinct patterns of transcriptional overlaps near or at the replication origins (Oris)

  nine same vzv prv direct cage-seq qrt-pcr

• A crowdsourced set of curated structural variants for the human genome.

  PMID 32559231 · PMC7329145 · PLoS computational biology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  1235 manually curated SVs were produced that can be used to evaluate SV callers or train machine learning models

  hg002 crowdsourced short-read mate-pair

• A temporal classifier predicts histopathology state and parses acute-chronic phasing in inflammatory bowel disease patients.

  PMID 36694043 · PMC9873918 · Communications biology · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Disease-specific temporal (dynamic) gene expression and splicing signatures, distinct from fixed timepoint differential expression, can be derived from DSS and adoptive transfer colitis models to capture acute-chronic disease dynamics

  colon blood distal ibd bulk qpcr histopathology

• Developing prognostic gene panel of survival time in lung adenocarcinoma patients using machine learning.

  PMID 35117753 · PMC8799101 · Translational cancer research · 2020 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Naïve Bayes using a 22-gene panel is the best-performing and most stable machine learning model for predicting LUAD survival time (>3 vs <3 years)

  tcga geo rna-seq methylation sequencing

• Constraints to gene flow increase the risk of genome erosion in the Ngorongoro Crater lion population.

  PMID 40258987 · PMC12012037 · Communications biology · 2025 · 8 claims · 9 setups

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  200 years of quasi-isolation and the 1962 epizootic caused a two-fold increase in inbreeding and an excess of highly deleterious mutations in Crater lions relative to other Greater Serengeti populations

  african lion crater simulated genome principal admixture

• Cell type differences in human cytomegalovirus transcription and epigenetic regulation with insights into major immediate-early enhancer-promoter control.

  PMID 40758707 · PMC12333995 · PLoS pathogens · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Six viral promoters (UL5, UL72, EP3, UL57-AS, US16-AS, US30-S) are ≥50-fold more active in D-NT2 than in HFF at 96 h post-infection and are classified as viral long promoters.

  d-nt2 hcmv-infected hcmv pro-seq dff-chip promoter

• Environmental selection overturns the decay relationship of soil prokaryotic community over geographic distance across grassland biotas.

  PMID 35073255 · PMC8828049 · eLife · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Prokaryotic community similarity follows a significant U-shape relationship over geographic distance up to 4000 km, decreasing within biotas but increasing across biotas after a tipping point of 1760-1920 km

  soil grassland 16s plant soil

• Environmental Drivers of Genetic Divergence in Two Corals From the Florida Keys.

  PMID 40589611 · PMC12206660 · Evolutionary applications · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Temperature was not the most important driver of coral genetic divergence in the Florida Keys; depth and water chemistry were more important

  agaricia agaricites coral sites 2brad population hierarchical

• Transgenerational inheritance of an acquired small RNA-based antiviral response in C. elegans.

  PMID 22119442 · PMC3250924 · Cell · 2011 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  viRNA-mediated silencing of the FR1gfp Flock House virus is transmitted to RNAi-deficient (rde-1 or rde-4 homozygous) progeny and persists for many ensuing generations, i.e. an acquired antiviral trait is inherited.

  transgenic elegans four gfp genetic template-independence

• Microarray analysis: genome-scale hypothesis scanning.

  PMID 14551912 · PMC212694 · PLoS biology · 2003 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Microarrays can be used to both test and generate hypotheses, not merely to fish for candidate genes.

  drosophila yeast diffuse breast microarray integrated gene

• Expanding the vision of environmental health at UNC-CH.

  PMID 15248304 · PMC1247395 · Environmental health perspectives · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Human breast tumors arise from at least two distinct cell types, basal and luminal epithelial, with different clinical behavior

  breast chinese carolina rodent microarray functional genetic

• The genome and development-dependent transcriptomes of Pyronema confluens: a window into fungal evolution.

  PMID 24068976 · PMC3778014 · PLoS genetics · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The 50 Mb P. confluens genome with 13,369 predicted protein-coding genes is more characteristic of higher filamentous ascomycetes than of the large, repeat-rich Tuber melanosporum genome, showing that the truffle's expanded genome is not typical of the Pezizales.

  pyronema confluens fungal whole-genome k-mer rna-seq

• Four genomic islands that mark post-1995 pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolates.

  PMID 16672049 · PMC1464126 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Seven genomic islands (VPaI-1 to VPaI-7, 10-81 kb) were identified in V. parahaemolyticus RIMD2210633 by aberrant GC content, presence of integrases/transposases, flanking direct repeats, and absence from related Vibrionaceae genomes.

  parahaemolyticus vulnificus clinical ecori-digested bioinformatic comparative pcr

• Genome-wide location analysis and expression studies reveal a role for p110 CUX1 in the activation of DNA replication genes.

  PMID 18003658 · PMC2248751 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  p110 CUX1 is recruited to promoters of cell cycle-related target genes preferentially during S phase

  hela hs578t nih3t3 genomic chap-chip conventional scanning

• HIV-1 sequence evolution in vivo after superinfection with three viral strains.

  PMID 17716368 · PMC2020475 · Retrovirology · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  gag and env-V3 nucleotide evolution follows a similar pattern in all three strains: low substitution rate in the first 2-3 years of infection, then an increase driven mainly by synonymous substitutions

  blood seminal pbmcs biological strain-specific bulk in-house

• Searching for genes underlying behavior: lessons from circadian rhythms.

  PMID 18988844 · PMC3744585 · Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Forward genetic mutagenesis screens successfully identified the molecular components of the circadian clock across Drosophila, Neurospora, cyanobacteria, Arabidopsis, and mouse.

  c57bl genomic automated contextual psychostimulant-induced

• G2Cdb: the Genes to Cognition database.

  PMID 18984621 · PMC2686544 · Nucleic acids research · 2009 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  G2Cdb integrates experimentally validated synapse proteome datasets with mouse/human genomic annotation, phenotype, and human disease data in a gene-centric database.

  brain nervous genome synaptic proteomic large-scale sequence

• A single-step sequencing method for the identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex species.

  PMID 18618024 · PMC2453075 · PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2008 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  ETR-D sequencing allows accurate, single-step identification of MTC species, circumventing the expensive polyphasic approach.

  mtc tuberculosis phenotypic pcr mptr

• Improving melanoma classification by integrating genetic and morphologic features.

  PMID 18532874 · PMC2408611 · PLoS medicine · 2008 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  BRAF-mutant melanomas show distinct morphological features (upward migration and nesting of intraepidermal melanocytes, epidermal thickening, sharper lateral demarcation, larger/rounder/more pigmented tumor cells) compared to non-mutant melanomas

  archival same subset patients histopathological mutation quantitative