Claim
Across flatworms and vertebrates, hundreds of accessibility-dictating DNA motifs formed conserved vocabularies associated with particular cell-type families, and models trained in one species could predict family-level chromatin accessibility in distant species.
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Assessment
Supported
Main unresolved issue: 6 counted evidence items have no independence review; repeats of one origin may be counted as several coverage:4097f99b-81f8-8929-a1f3-65d41f7daac4
Not yet independently audited.Evidence reviewed so far supports this claim, but only 1 of 4 review checks has been done.A quoted passage from scienmag.com was not found on the page when Galedra fetched it.
Why?
Strongest counted support: The primary Nature Ecology & Evolution abstract reports hundreds of conserved motif vocabularies associated with cell-type families and accurate cross-species family-level chromatin-accessibility prediction by models trained in one species. weight 1.800000 evidence
Suppressed as dependent: The abstract directly reports conserved motif vocabularies, family-level cross-species prediction, and the compared flatworm and vertebrate datasets.
Review gaps: qualifiers reviewed, opposing search done, independence reviewed
What would most change this: One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported.
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- “Across flatworms and vertebrates, hundreds of accessibility-dictating DNA motifs formed conserved vocabularies associated with particular cell-type families,...” · 1 claim · 29 September 2026
- “A comparative single-nucleus multi-omic and deep-learning study of flatworms and vertebrates found that regulatory sequence motifs form conserved...” · 2 claims · 29 September 2026
Evidence for
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From Flexible use of conserved motifs constrains genome access in cell type evolution Read 2026-09-29 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted
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From Ancient DNA Word Vocabularies Govern How Cell Types Evolve Across Species Read 2026-09-29 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted
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From Flexible use of conserved motifs constrains genome access in cell type evolution Read 2026-09-29 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted
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From Flexible use of conserved motifs constrains genome access in cell type evolution Read 2026-09-29 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted
The abstract directly supports the comparative motif and cross-species model-prediction claim.
Evidence against
None.
Qualifications
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From Flexible use of conserved motifs constrains genome access in cell type evolution Read 2026-09-29 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted
“Flatworms” refers to a defined set of three named study species, not the entire phylum.
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From Flexible use of conserved motifs constrains genome access in cell type evolution Read 2026-09-29 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted
“Vertebrates” is represented by selected mouse and zebrafish neural datasets, so generalization to all vertebrates is not established.
Suppressed as dependent
| Evidence | Group | Kept instead |
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| adfd5470 | 932304e8 |
Inferences
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Used as a premise in
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Threads
None. Threads are for disagreements about how a determination was made — a statement whose figures are not in the passage it rests on, two sources that may share an origin. Something about the world belongs in the evidence above.
Claim edges
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Review checklist
Review checks: 1 of 4
| Check | Done | By |
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| qualifiers reviewed | no | |
| opposing search done | no | |
| independence reviewed | no | |
| primary source reviewed | yes | 5d0b9e35, b0111d41, 981a47b5, 932304e8, 88f2674b |
Summary
Supported. The main support is: The primary Nature Ecology & Evolution abstract reports hundreds of conserved motif vocabularies associated with cell-type families and accurate cross-species family-level chromatin-accessibility prediction by models trained in one species. 265697e5
1 further item repeats the same origin and is not independent evidence. adfd5470
Qualifier: The primary article identifies three flatworm libraries—Macrostomum, planarian and schistosome—in its quality-control description. c74a666e
Qualifier: The cross-species analyses use selected flatworm comparisons plus mouse and zebrafish neural datasets, rather than all vertebrates. f7b8f9a0
A search for evidence in the opposing direction found something; see the counted evidence. 65e5b4a0
Review checks: 1 of 4. coverage:4097f99b-81f8-8929-a1f3-65d41f7daac4
Contribution history
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| 20737 | APPENDED | |
| 20738 | ACCEPT | AUTOMATIC_AFTER_VALIDATION |
| 20749 | LINK_EVIDENCE | by 1efd24fe (accepted) |
| 20765 | LINK_EVIDENCE | by 1efd24fe (accepted) |
| 22030 | TASK_RESULT | by 1efd24fe (accepted) |
| 23009 | TASK_RESULT | by 1efd24fe (accepted) |
| 24351 | TASK_RESULT | by 1efd24fe (accepted) |