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).

• TF2TG: an online resource mining the potential gene targets of transcription factors in Drosophila.

  PMID 40314147 · PMC12774851 · Genetics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TF2TG is an online resource integrating motif scan data, ChIP-seq peaks (modENCODE/modERN), Hi-C (TADs), REDfly-curated CRMs, ATAC-seq, protein-protein interaction data, and tissue-specific expression to predict TF-target gene relationships in Drosophila

  drosophila combined motif chip-seq whole-animal

• Reconstructing transcriptional regulatory networks through genomics data.

  PMID 20048387 · PMC3666560 · Statistical methods in medical research · 2009 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Location data (ChIP-chip/ChIP-seq) alone is insufficient for TRN inference because binding does not imply regulation, TF binding is dynamic across conditions/time, and TRNs involve combinatorial effects of multiple TFs not captured by single-TF ChIP experiments.

  yeast generic perturbations followed chip-chip chip-seq gene

• STAN, a computational framework for inferring spatially informed transcription factor activity.

  PMID 41521668 · PMC12784991 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  STAN, a linear mixed-effects (spatially weighted regression) model, integrates TF-target gene priors, gene expression, spatial coordinates, and histological image features to predict spot-specific TF activity in spatial transcriptomics data

  lymph glioblastoma breast dorsolateral spatial scrna-seq

• Atlas-guided discovery of transcription factors for T cell programming.

  PMID 41639465 · PMC13017511 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A multi-omics atlas (Taiji pipeline) integrating RNA-seq and ATAC-seq across nine CD8+ T cell states can predict TF activity and identify state-selective versus multi-state TFs

  cd8+ lcmv p14 c57bl rna-seq pearson crispr

• Prediction of condition-specific regulatory genes using machine learning.

  PMID 32329779 · PMC7293043 · Nucleic acids research · 2020 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  ConSReg integrates expression, DAP-seq TF-DNA binding, and ATAC-seq open chromatin data into machine learning models to predict condition-specific regulatory genes

  arabidopsis zea bulk dap-seq atac-seq

• Landscape of allele-specific transcription factor binding in the human genome.

  PMID 33980847 · PMC8115691 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A novel statistical framework (ADASTRA) calls allele-specific TF binding from existing ChIP-Seq alignments by jointly correcting for background allelic dosage (BAD, from aneuploidy/CNVs) and reference mapping bias.

  gtrd k562 mcf7 types chip-seq variant bayesian

• maxATAC: Genome-scale transcription-factor binding prediction from ATAC-seq with deep neural networks.

  PMID 36719906 · PMC9917285 · PLoS computational biology · 2023 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  maxATAC is a suite of deep neural network models enabling state-of-the-art, genome-scale TFBS prediction from ATAC-seq, with models for 127 human transcription factors

  lines hepg2 types single chip-seq omni-atac-seq atac-seq

• High-throughput chromatin information enables accurate tissue-specific prediction of transcription factor binding sites.

  PMID 18988630 · PMC2662491 · Nucleic acids research · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Incorporating H3K4me3 chromatin modification estimates greatly improves the accuracy of in silico prediction of in vivo TF binding for a wide range of TFs in human and mouse

  embryonic neural t-cells mm8 chip-seq chip-chip pwm

• A latent activated olfactory stem cell state revealed by single-cell transcriptomic and epigenomic profiling.

  PMID 41512864 · PMC12903091 · Stem cell reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  HBC-derived regeneration proceeds via three distinct lineages (rHBC, Sus, mOSN) marked by sequential, lineage-specific transcription factor (TF) expression cascades.

  lineage-traced hbcs* icam1+ scrna-seq trajectory-based seurat

• EpiXFormer: a cross-attention neural network for predicting cell type-specific transcription factor binding sites.

  PMID 41527854 · PMC12796812 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  EpiXFormer achieves high accuracy (mean AUROC ~0.99) predicting binding sites of both TFs and non-sequence-specific DBPs across 199 DBP-cell type pairs

  dbps tfs common ctcf deep comparative feature-ablation

• Histone hyperacetylation disrupts core gene regulatory architecture in rhabdomyosarcoma.

  PMID 31784732 · PMC6886578 · Nature genetics · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SOX8 is a previously unrecognized core regulatory TF in FP-RMS, co-localizing with other CR TFs at SEs and essential for tumor cell growth

  rms rh4 h3k27ac pooled chip-seq

• Short activation domains control chromatin association of transcription factors.

  PMID 41511382 · PMC12788797 · eLife · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Short activation domains (39-60 aa, only 5-7% of the synthetic TF) dominate the chromatin-bound fraction of a synthetic transcription factor.

  u2os synthetic single-molecule flow fluorescence

• RegulonDB 11.0: Comprehensive high-throughput datasets on transcriptional regulation in Escherichia coli K-12.

  PMID 35584008 · PMC9465075 · Microbial genomics · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  RegulonDB 11.0 is a radical upgrade offering access to more than 2000 high-throughput datasets on transcriptional regulation in E. coli K-12.

  coli chip-seq chip-exo gselex

• Sox8 remodels the cranial ectoderm to generate the ear.

  PMID 35867760 · PMC9282420 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Sox8 sits at the top of a core transcriptional circuit (Sox8, Pax2, Lmx1a, Zbtb16) that determines otic identity

  chick bulk single-cell chipseq

• Genetic architecture of natural variation of cardiac performance from flies to humans.

  PMID 36383075 · PMC9668334 · eLife · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Natural genetic variation significantly influences cardiac performance traits (rhythmicity and contractility) across 167 DGRP lines

  drosophila dgrp gene induced high-speed genome-wide epistasis

• 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

• Methods for proteomic analysis of transcription factors.

  PMID 19726046 · PMC2778203 · Journal of chromatography. A · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Systematic oligonucleotide 'trapping' at nM DNA concentrations allows purification of TF-RE complexes in a highly purified state, exploiting the high specific affinity vs. low non-specific affinity of TFs for DNA

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• TEAD4 and RXRA Regulate the Function of Nucleus Pulposus Cells in Intervertebral Disc Degeneration Via the TNF-α/NF-κB Pathway: An Integrated Analysis of Single-Cell RNA-Seq, Bulk RNA-Seq, and In Vitro Validation.

  PMID 41511606 · PMC12995935 · Applied biochemistry and biotechnology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TEAD4 and RXRA play critical roles in IDD progression, likely regulating NP cell behavior and ECM metabolism via the TNF-α/NF-κB pathway

  differential il-1β-induced scrna-seq bulk gsea

• Dissecting gene regulatory networks governing human cortical cell fate.

  PMID 41565813 · PMC12999477 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  ZNF219, a previously uncharacterized transcription factor, represses neural differentiation in human cortical radial glia

  cortical rhesus single-cell scrna-seq immunocytochemistry

• 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

  gm12878 embryonic mescs hi-c chip-seq chia-pet