Regulatory activity is the default DNA state in eukaryotes

I Luthra, C Jensen, XE Chen, AL Salaudeen… - Nature Structural & …, 2024 - nature.com
Genomes encode for genes and non-coding DNA, both capable of transcriptional activity.
However, unlike canonical genes, many transcripts from non-coding DNA have limited …

[HTML][HTML] Machine-guided design of synthetic cell type-specific cis-regulatory elements

SJ Gosai, RI Castro, N Fuentes, JC Butts, S Kales… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cis-regulatory elements (CREs) control gene expression, orchestrating tissue identity,
developmental timing, and stimulus responses, which collectively define the thousands of …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenomic insights into common human disease pathology

CG Bell - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2024 - Springer
The epigenome—the chemical modifications and chromatin-related packaging of the
genome—enables the same genetic template to be activated or repressed in different …

High-throughput data and modeling reveal insights into the mechanisms of cooperative DNA-binding by transcription factor proteins

V Martin, F Zhuang, Y Zhang, K Pinheiro… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Cooperative DNA-binding by transcription factor (TF) proteins is critical for eukaryotic gene
regulation. In the human genome, many regulatory regions contain TF-binding sites in close …

Improving the performance of supervised deep learning for regulatory genomics using phylogenetic augmentation

AG Duncan, JA Mitchell, AM Moses - Bioinformatics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Supervised deep learning is used to model the complex relationship between
genomic sequence and regulatory function. Understanding how these models make …

[HTML][HTML] Plant Synthetic Promoters

P Szymczyk, M Majewska - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
This article examines the structure and functions of the plant synthetic promoters frequently
used to precisely regulate complex regulatory routes. It details the composition of native …

[HTML][HTML] Active learning of enhancer and silencer regulatory grammar in photoreceptors

RZ Friedman, A Ramu, S Lichtarge, CA Myers… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cis-regulatory elements (CREs) direct gene expression in health and disease, and models
that can accurately predict their activities from DNA sequences are crucial for biomedicine …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation and optimization of sequence-based gene regulatory deep learning models

AM Rafi, D Nogina, D Penzar, D Lee, D Lee, N Kim… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Neural networks have emerged as immensely powerful tools in predicting functional
genomic regions, notably evidenced by recent successes in deciphering gene regulatory …

regLM: Designing realistic regulatory DNA with autoregressive language models

A Lal, D Garfield, T Biancalani, G Eraslan - International Conference on …, 2024 - Springer
We present regLM, a framework to design synthetic CREs with desired properties, such as
high, low or cell type-specific activity, using autoregressive language models in conjunction …

Characterizing uncertainty in predictions of genomic sequence-to-activity models

A Bajwa, R Rastogi, P Kathail… - Machine Learning …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
Genomic sequence-to-activity models are increasingly utilized to understand gene
regulatory syntax and probe the functional consequences of regulatory variation. Current …