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).

• H3K27 and H3K9 methylation mask potential CTCF binding sites to maintain 3D genome integrity.

  PMID 40764058 · PMC12487818 · Genome research · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  H3K9 and H3K27 methylation regulate CTCF binding at distinct genomic regions, and their simultaneous loss induces drastic changes in CTCF binding

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• CTCFBSDB: a CTCF-binding site database for characterization of vertebrate genomic insulators.

  PMID 17981843 · PMC2238977 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  CTCF is the only identified trans-acting factor in vertebrates that confers enhancer-blocking insulator activity

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• CTCF binding site classes exhibit distinct evolutionary, genomic, epigenomic and transcriptomic features.

  PMID 19922652 · PMC3091324 · Genome biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CTCF binding sites can be classified into three occupancy-based classes (LowOc, MedOc, HighOc) based on similarity to the CTCF PWM motif

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• CTCF/cohesin-binding sites are susceptible to replication-associated DNA damage and genomic instability in cancer cells.

  PMID 41630911 · PMC12860730 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CTCF and cohesin (RAD21) remain co-bound to DNA throughout interphase, including during the S (replication) phase, in HeLa cells

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• CTCF's loop-independent functions prevail over chromatin looping in the acute degradation system.

  PMID 41191909 · PMC13107559 · Protein & cell · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CTCF regulates Ppa2 and Zbtb39 expression through mechanisms independent of chromatin looping

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• MoDLE: high-performance stochastic modeling of DNA loop extrusion interactions.

  PMID 36451166 · PMC9710047 · Genome biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MoDLE is a high-performance stochastic model/software for simulating DNA-DNA contacts generated by loop extrusion genome-wide

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• Genome-wide identification of in vivo protein-DNA binding sites from ChIP-Seq data.

  PMID 18684996 · PMC2532738 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  SISSRs identifies binding sites from ChIP-Seq short reads with much higher resolution than the standard region-clustering approach

  cd4+ jurkat hela computational chip-seq novo motif

• Segzoo: a turnkey system that summarizes genome annotations.

  PMID 42087325 · PMC13189851 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Segzoo is a turnkey system that automates downloading of reference data and running of analyses to summarize SAGA genome annotations, requiring only a BED-format annotation file as input

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• Boosting the detection of enhancer-promoter loops via normalization methods for chromatin interaction data.

  PMID 41633996 · PMC12976324 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ICE and KR matrix balancing normalization methods over-correct and attenuate low-frequency enhancer-promoter loop signals despite preserving structural (CTCF-mediated) loops

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• Reactivation of a developmentally silenced embryonic globin gene.

  PMID 34290235 · PMC8295333 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  In embryonic (primitive) erythroid cells, the ζ-gene lies within a ~65 kb sub-TAD of open, acetylated chromatin and physically interacts with the α-globin super-enhancer.

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• Comprehensive enhancer-target gene assignments improve gene set level interpretation of genome-wide regulatory data.

  PMID 35473573 · PMC9044877 · Genome biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Combining multiple enhancer-definition and enhancer-gene link data sources yields 1860 genome-wide EnTDefs covering >500 cell types

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• Accurate chromatin marks peak calling with Omnipeak.

  PMID 41521664 · PMC12784980 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Omnipeak is a universal unsupervised peak-calling algorithm based on a constrained three-state hidden Markov model (zero, noise, signal states)

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• Atlas of nascent RNA transcripts reveals tissue-specific enhancer to gene linkages.

  PMID 40281430 · PMC12032694 · BMC genomics · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A large repository of nascent run-on RNA-seq samples (DBNascent) was assembled and uniformly processed to identify sites of bidirectional transcription genome-wide.

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• Chromatin architecture reprogramming reveals novel epigenetic dependencies in breast cancer.

  PMID 41412800 · PMC12849445 · Genes & development · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  H3K9 methylation and the demethylase KDM4C, through association with SWI/SNF, drive proliferation of cells fated to become endocrine-resistant via a nongenomic estrogen-mediated mechanism

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• Distinguishing benign from pathogenic duplications involving GPR101 and VGLL1-adjacent enhancers in the clinical setting with the bioinformatic tool POSTRE.

  PMID 41540017 · PMC12890961 · NPJ genomic medicine · 2026 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  POSTRE correctly classified all 34 GPR101-associated duplications (27 pathogenic X-LAG, 7 non-pathogenic) as pathogenic or benign

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• Af-CUT&Tag: a sensitive and antibody-free chromatin profiling method using genetically encoded tags and high-affinity binders fused to Tn5.

  PMID 41547832 · PMC12914055 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Af-CUT&Tag eliminates dependence on conventional target antibodies by using CRISPR-integrated HiBiT/ALFA-tags recognized by LgBiT/NbALFA-Tn5 fusion proteins

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• CLAMP: predicting specific protein-mediated chromatin loops in diverse species with a chromatin accessibility language model.

  PMID 41555433 · PMC12903630 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CLAMP, a chromatin-accessibility language model, predicts protein-mediated chromatin loops across 10 species, 18 proteins, and 24 cell types with superior performance versus existing methods.

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• Transient histone deacetylase inhibition induces cellular memory of gene expression and 3D genome folding.

  PMID 41639407 · PMC12900649 · Nature genetics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Acute HDAC inhibition (TSA pulse) induces genome-wide H3K27 hyperacetylation and reorganizes the histone modification landscape, shifting more of the genome to an active state.

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• Genome-wide kinetic properties of transcriptional bursting in mouse embryonic stem cells.

  PMID 32596448 · PMC7299619 · Science advances · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Transcriptional bursting kinetics is regulated by a combination of promoter- and gene body-binding proteins, including the polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) and transcription elongation factors

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• Predicting enhancers in mammalian genomes using supervised hidden Markov models.

  PMID 30917778 · PMC6437899 · BMC bioinformatics · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  eHMM predicts enhancers with high precision and recall comparable to state-of-the-art methods and consistently outperforms them in accuracy and resolution

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