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).

• RNA interference in functional genomics and medicine.

  PMID 12808314 · PMC3055057 · Journal of Korean medical science · 2003 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  RNAi is sequence-specific gene silencing induced by double-stranded RNA and is mediated by ~22-nt siRNAs generated from long dsRNA by the RNase III enzyme Dicer.

  caenorhabditis drosophila mammalian postnatal dsrna biochemical synthetic

• Genome comparison without alignment using shortest unique substrings.

  PMID 15910684 · PMC1166540 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A number of sequence comparison tasks, including detection of unique genomic regions, can be accomplished efficiently without an alignment step using shortest unique substrings.

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• Information-based methods for predicting gene function from systematic gene knock-downs.

  PMID 18959798 · PMC2596148 · BMC bioinformatics · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Information-based metrics, which incorporate a phenotype's genomic frequency, outperform non-information-based metrics for detecting gene-gene functional similarity from phenotypic knock-down profiles.

  caenorhabditis elegans saccharomyces interference computational genome-wide

• Phagosome maturation: going through the acid test.

  PMID 18813294 · PMC2908392 · Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Maturation of apoptotic cell-containing phagosomes proceeds via machinery mechanistically distinct from receptor-mediated endocytosis

  caenorhabditis elegans swiss phagosomes rnai genetic acridine

• The 21st century hepatologist and a systems biology based approach to liver diseases.

  PMID 19026013 · PMC2712824 · Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) · 2008 · 7 claims · 3 setups

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  Network models covering the majority of an organism's genes can accurately predict phenotypic effects of gene perturbations in multicellular organisms

  caenorhabditis cohorts computational genome-wide whole-genome

• Deep transcriptomics reveals cell-specific isoforms of pan-neuronal genes.

  PMID 40379625 · PMC12084633 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Pan-neuronal genes (expressed in many/all neurons) harbor highly cell-specific splice variants/isoforms restricted to single or few neuron types.

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• Age Deceleration and Reversal Gene Patterns in Dauer Diapause.

  PMID 41104926 · PMC12686545 · Aging cell · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Dauer arrest, regardless of duration, does not cause lasting functional decline in lifespan, brood size, or developmental resumption

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• MUTACLASH: identifying functional small RNA target sites using crosslinking-induced mutations.

  PMID 41330639 · PMC12810180 · RNA (New York, N.Y.) · 2026 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  CIMs are present and enriched in PIWI (piRNA) and Argonaute (miRNA) CLASH data and serve as molecular footprints of Argonaute binding on target mRNAs.

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• Inferring a spatial code of cell-cell interactions across a whole animal body.

  PMID 36395331 · PMC9714814 · PLoS computational biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  cell2cell computes cell-cell interaction (CCI) potential using a novel modified Bray-Curtis score based on complementary coexpression of ligand-receptor pairs between cells

  elegans computational single-cell random genetic

• A comparison of programmed cell death between species.

  PMID 11178240 · PMC138857 · Genome biology · 2000 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The core apoptotic pathway (CED-3/caspases, CED-4/Apaf-1, CED-9/Bcl-2, EGL-1) is conserved across C. elegans, Drosophila, and mammals.

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• Comparison of complete nuclear receptor sets from the human, Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila genomes.

  PMID 11532213 · PMC55326 · Genome biology · 2001 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  The human genome contains fewer than 50 functional nuclear receptors, far fewer than C. elegans and about twice as many as Drosophila

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• 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

• Starvation-induced transgenerational inheritance of small RNAs in C. elegans.

  PMID 25018105 · PMC4377509 · Cell · 2014 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  L1 starvation induces changes in endogenous 22G small RNAs (STGs) that are inherited for at least three generations in fed descendants.

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• Similarities and differences in genome-wide expression data of six organisms.

  PMID 14737187 · PMC300882 · PLoS biology · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Coexpression of functionally related genes is frequently conserved across evolutionarily distant organisms

  saccharomyces caenorhabditis escherichia arabidopsis genome-wide large-scale developmental

• Assembling a jigsaw puzzle with 20,000 parts.

  PMID 12801408 · PMC193613 · Genome biology · 2003 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Re-routing the intracellular interaction domains of receptor tyrosine kinases can redirect their signaling output, e.g. converting a growth signal into an apoptosis signal.

  yeast caenorhabditis escherichia proteome-wide microarray yeast rnai

• The truth about mouse, human, worms and yeast.

  PMID 15601543 · PMC3525071 · Human genomics · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Comparing genomes in pairs or larger sets (mouse-human, C. elegans-C. briggsae, multiple Saccharomyces, human-pufferfish, etc.) reveals unsuspected genes and helps eliminate false-positive gene predictions

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• Neuronal Small RNAs Control Behavior Transgenerationally.

  PMID 31178120 · PMC6579485 · Cell · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Neuron-specific synthesis of RDE-4-dependent small RNAs regulates germline amplified endogenous siRNAs and germline gene expression for multiple generations

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• Genetic analysis of pathways regulated by the von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor in Caenorhabditis elegans.

  PMID 15361934 · PMC515368 · PLoS biology · 2004 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  The HIF-1/VHL-1/EGL-9 hydroxylase pathway is tightly conserved in C. elegans

  elegans whole-genome rnase pharmacological

• Intronic alternative splicing regulators identified by comparative genomics in nematodes.

  PMID 16839192 · PMC1500816 · PLoS computational biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Conserved intronic elements flanking alternative exons occur more often than expected from total intron sequence, consistent with selective pressure for splicing regulation

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• Using ESTs to improve the accuracy of de novo gene prediction.

  PMID 16817966 · PMC1534067 · BMC bioinformatics · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TWINSCAN_EST combines EST alignments with TWINSCAN via a trainable 'ESTseq' representation and improves exact gene structure prediction accuracy on the whole C. elegans genome

  elegans genome chromosome novo gene partial