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 · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 89

  SARS-CoV-2 infection induces a strong interferon-mediated antiviral response in the nasopharynx, up-regulating antiviral factors (OAS1-3, IFIT1-3, MX2, RSAD2, HERC5) and Th1 chemokines CXCL9/10/11, while down-regulating ribosomal protein transcripts.

  nasopharyngeal airway patient-matched swab shotgun bulk rt-pcr

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

  PMID 34019643 · PMC8218201 · Nucleic acids research · 2021 · 8 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 82

  eVITTA is a web-based toolbox with three modules (easyGEO, easyGSEA, easyVizR) that analyze, interpret, and compare transcriptome data from published NCBI GEO studies or new experiments

  nasopharyngeal elegans bulk 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.

  nasopharyngeal heart leukocytes blood bulk pathway machine

• 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

  sars-cov-2 lassa hiv-1 ngs-based computational comparative

• 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.

  sars-cov-2 srr illumina ont amplicon lineage cross-workflow

• 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.

  sars-cov-2 spike predicted california short-read read sequence

• 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

  frhk-4 macaques sars-cov coronavirus virus infection whole-genome

• 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.

  sars-cov extracted cdna pcr viral reverse real-time

• 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

  sars-cov x-ray nmr genome

• 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

  sars-cov x-ray gst emsa

• 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

  veroe6 cell-free small large trna

• 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

  vero caco-2 sars-cov-2 ngs nanopore northern

• Betacoronavirus-specific alternate splicing.

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

  Has reproduction · 100

  Genes showing differential alternative splicing in SARS-CoV-2 have a similar functional profile to those in SARS-CoV and MERS, affecting a diverse set of genes and biological functions related to virus biology.

  mrc5 calu-3 nasopharyngeal sars-cov-2-infected bulk clinical term

• Molecular evolution and multilocus sequence typing of 145 strains of SARS-CoV.

  PMID 16112670 · PMC7118731 · FEBS letters · 2005 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  145 SARS-CoV genomes can be divided into three groups: animal-origin viruses, first-epidemic clinical viruses, and GD03T0013

  complete mutation sars-cov spike sequence phylogenetic selection

• Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Engineered Human Tissues Using Clinical-Grade Soluble Human ACE2.

  PMID 32333836 · PMC7181998 · Cell · 2020 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 87

  Clinical-grade hrsACE2 significantly inhibits SARS-CoV-2 infection of Vero-E6 cells in a dose-dependent manner

  nasopharyngeal vero-e6 ipsc-derived embryonic viral qrt-pcr organoid

• Methylation patterns of the nasal epigenome of hospitalized SARS-CoV-2 positive patients reveal insights into molecular mechanisms of COVID-19.

  PMID 40170038 · PMC11963311 · BMC medical genomics · 2025 · 8 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction

  The nasal methylome shows differential DNA methylation in intergenic regions and low methylated regions (LMRs), highlighting distal regulatory/enhancer-like elements in COVID-19 gene regulation

  nasal aggregated severe differentially genome methylation differential

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

  PMID 33743211 · PMC7951565 · Cell · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 84

  ChIRP-MS identifies 309 host proteins that bind SARS-CoV-2 RNA during active infection across Huh7.5 and Vero E6 cells.

  huh7.5 host lung chirp-ms chirp-rna-seq sds-page

• Identification of Novel Therapeutic Candidates Against SARS-CoV-2 Infections: An Application of RNA Sequencing Toward mRNA Based Nanotherapeutics.

  PMID 35983322 · PMC9378778 · Frontiers in microbiology · 2022 · 6 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 75

  RPL29 (60S ribosomal protein L29) is highly/consistently expressed across all COVID-19 infected groups regardless of severity, suggesting it as a novel host therapeutic target for mRNA-based nanomedicines.

  pbmcs pbmc aligned bulk read transcript