DeepSTARR predicts enhancer activity from DNA sequence and enables the de novo design of synthetic enhancers

BP de Almeida, F Reiter, M Pagani, A Stark - Nature genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Enhancer sequences control gene expression and comprise binding sites (motifs) for
different transcription factors (TFs). Despite extensive genetic and computational studies, the …

Allopolyploidy expanded gene content but not pangenomic variation in the hexaploid oilseed Camelina sativa

KA Bird, JR Brock, PP Grabowski, AM Harder… - Genetics, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Myosin storage myopathy (MSM) is a rare skeletal muscle disorder caused by mutations in
the slow muscle/β-cardiac myosin heavy chain (MHC) gene. MSM missense mutations …

HEAP: a task adaptive-based explainable deep learning framework for enhancer activity prediction

Y Liu, Z Wang, H Yuan, G Zhu… - Briefings in …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Enhancers are crucial cis-regulatory elements that control gene expression in a cell-type-
specific manner. Despite extensive genetic and computational studies, accurately predicting …

Experimental approaches to investigate biophysical interactions between homeodomain transcription factors and DNA

F Mekkaoui, RA Drewell, JM Dresch… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2024 - Elsevier
Homeodomain transcription factors (TFs) bind to specific DNA sequences to regulate the
expression of target genes. Structural work has provided insight into molecular identities and …

An intrinsically interpretable neural network architecture for sequence-to-function learning

AT Balcı, MM Ebeid, PV Benos, D Kostka… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Sequence-based deep learning approaches have been shown to predict a
multitude of functional genomic readouts, including regions of open chromatin and RNA …

Two coacting shadow enhancers regulate twin of eyeless expression during early Drosophila development

JM Dresch, LL Nourie, RD Conrad, LT Carlson… - Genetics, 2025 - academic.oup.com
The Drosophila PAX6 homolog twin of eyeless (toy) sits at the pinnacle of the genetic
pathway controlling eye development, the retinal determination network. Expression of toy in …

DeepSTARR predicts enhancer activity from DNA sequence and enables the de novo design of enhancers

BP de Almeida, F Reiter, M Pagani, A Stark - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Enhancer sequences control gene expression and comprise binding sites (motifs) for
different transcription factors (TFs). Despite extensive genetic and computational studies, the …

[HTML][HTML] SEAMoD: A fully interpretable neural network for cis-regulatory analysis of differentially expressed genes

S Bhogale, C Seward, L Stubbs, S Sinha - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A common way to investigate gene regulatory mechanisms is to identify differentially
expressed genes using transcriptomics, find their candidate enhancers using epigenomics …

Transcriptional regulatory genomics: from mechanistic modeling to causal inference

P Dibaeinia - 2023 - ideals.illinois.edu
Gene transcription refers to the process in which coding regions on the genome are copied
into mRNA molecules through complex cellular mechanisms. This process is regulated …