The transcription factor activity gradient (TAG) model: contemplating a contact-independent mechanism for enhancer–promoter communication

JP Karr, JJ Ferrie, R Tjian, X Darzacq - Genes & Development, 2022 - genesdev.cshlp.org
How distal cis-regulatory elements (eg, enhancers) communicate with promoters remains an
unresolved question of fundamental importance. Although transcription factors and cofactors …

Deep learning for computational biology

C Angermueller, T Pärnamaa, L Parts… - Molecular systems …, 2016 - embopress.org
Technological advances in genomics and imaging have led to an explosion of molecular
and cellular profiling data from large numbers of samples. This rapid increase in biological …

Activity-by-contact model of enhancer–promoter regulation from thousands of CRISPR perturbations

CP Fulco, J Nasser, TR Jones, G Munson… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Enhancer elements in the human genome control how genes are expressed in specific cell
types and harbor thousands of genetic variants that influence risk for common diseases …

Cistrome Data Browser: expanded datasets and new tools for gene regulatory analysis

R Zheng, C Wan, S Mei, Q Qin, Q Wu… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Cistrome Data Browser (DB) is a resource of human and mouse cis-regulatory
information derived from ChIP-seq, DNase-seq and ATAC-seq chromatin profiling assays …

Functional annotations of three domestic animal genomes provide vital resources for comparative and agricultural research

C Kern, Y Wang, X Xu, Z Pan, M Halstead… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Gene regulatory elements are central drivers of phenotypic variation and thus of critical
importance towards understanding the genetics of complex traits. The Functional Annotation …

Machine learning applications in genetics and genomics

MW Libbrecht, WS Noble - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2015 - nature.com
The field of machine learning, which aims to develop computer algorithms that improve with
experience, holds promise to enable computers to assist humans in the analysis of large …

Rapid adaptive responses to climate change in corals

G Torda, JM Donelson, M Aranda, DJ Barshis… - Nature Climate …, 2017 - nature.com
Pivotal to projecting the fate of coral reefs is the capacity of reef-building corals to
acclimatize and adapt to climate change. Transgenerational plasticity may enable some …

Acetylation of histone H2B marks active enhancers and predicts CBP/p300 target genes

T Narita, Y Higashijima, S Kilic, T Liebner, J Walter… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Chromatin features are widely used for genome-scale map** of enhancers. However,
discriminating active enhancers from other cis-regulatory elements, predicting enhancer …

Mll3 and Mll4 facilitate enhancer RNA synthesis and transcription from promoters independently of H3K4 monomethylation

KM Dorighi, T Swigut, T Henriques, NV Bhanu… - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
Monomethylation of histone H3 at lysine 4 (H3K4me1) and acetylation of histone H3 at
lysine 27 (H3K27ac) are correlated with transcriptionally engaged enhancer elements, but …

[HTML][HTML] Methods for ChIP-seq analysis: A practical workflow and advanced applications

R Nakato, T Sakata - Methods, 2021 - Elsevier
Chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-seq) is a central method in
epigenomic research. Genome-wide analysis of histone modifications, such as enhancer …