Gene regulatory network inference in the era of single-cell multi-omics

P Badia-i-Mompel, L Wessels, S Müller-Dott… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The interplay between chromatin, transcription factors and genes generates complex
regulatory circuits that can be represented as gene regulatory networks (GRNs). The study …

Deciphering the multi-scale, quantitative cis-regulatory code

S Kim, J Wysocka - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Uncovering the cis-regulatory code that governs when and how much each gene is
transcribed in a given genome and cellular state remains a central goal of biology. Here, we …

Cancer drug-tolerant persister cells: from biological questions to clinical opportunities

M Russo, M Chen, E Mariella, H Peng… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The emergence of drug resistance is the most substantial challenge to the effectiveness of
anticancer therapies. Orthogonal approaches have revealed that a subset of cells, known as …

Diffusion models in bioinformatics and computational biology

Z Guo, J Liu, Y Wang, M Chen, D Wang, D Xu… - Nature reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Denoising diffusion models embody a type of generative artificial intelligence that can be
applied in computer vision, natural language processing and bioinformatics. In this Review …

Machine-guided design of cell-type-targeting cis-regulatory elements

SJ Gosai, RI Castro, N Fuentes, JC Butts, K Mouri… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Cis-regulatory elements (CREs) control gene expression, orchestrating tissue identity,
developmental timing and stimulus responses, which collectively define the thousands of …

Symbolic recording of signalling and cis-regulatory element activity to DNA

W Chen, J Choi, X Li, JF Nathans, B Martin, W Yang… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Measurements of gene expression or signal transduction activity are conventionally
performed using methods that require either the destruction or live imaging of a biological …

Multiplexed single-cell characterization of alternative polyadenylation regulators

MH Kowalski, HH Wessels, J Linder, C Dalgarno… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Most mammalian genes have multiple polyA sites, representing a substantial source of
transcript diversity regulated by the cleavage and polyadenylation (CPA) machinery. To …

Rewiring gene circuitry for plant improvement

AT Borowsky, J Bailey-Serres - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Aspirations for high crop growth and yield, nutritional quality and bioproduction of materials
are challenged by climate change and limited adoption of new technologies. Here, we …

Multiplex profiling of developmental cis-regulatory elements with quantitative single-cell expression reporters

JB Lalanne, SG Regalado, S Domcke, D Calderon… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The inability to scalably and precisely measure the activity of developmental cis-regulatory
elements (CREs) in multicellular systems is a bottleneck in genomics. Here we develop a …

De novo genes

L Zhao, N Svetec, DJ Begun - Annual Review of Genetics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Although the majority of annotated new genes in a given genome appear to have arisen
from duplication-related mechanisms, recent studies have shown that genes can also …