Computational methods for analysing multiscale 3D genome organization

Y Zhang, L Boninsegna, M Yang, T Misteli… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Recent progress in whole-genome mapping and imaging technologies has enabled the
characterization of the spatial organization and folding of the genome in the nucleus. In …

Enablers and challenges of spatial omics, a melting pot of technologies

T Alexandrov, J Saez‐Rodriguez… - Molecular Systems …, 2023 - embopress.org
Spatial omics has emerged as a rapidly growing and fruitful field with hundreds of
publications presenting novel methods for obtaining spatially resolved information for any …

Lifelong restructuring of 3D genome architecture in cerebellar granule cells

L Tan, J Shi, S Moghadami, B Parasar, CP Wright… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The cerebellum contains most of the neurons in the human brain and exhibits distinctive
modes of development and aging. In this work, by developing our single-cell three …

Biophysical modeling with variational autoencoders for bimodal, single-cell RNA sequencing data

M Carilli, G Gorin, Y Choi, T Chari, L Pachter - Nature Methods, 2024 - nature.com
Here we present biVI, which combines the variational autoencoder framework of scVI with
biophysical models describing the transcription and splicing kinetics of RNA molecules. We …

[HTML][HTML] Simultaneous CRISPR screening and spatial transcriptomics reveals intracellular, intercellular, and functional transcriptional circuits

L Binan, S Danquah, V Valakh, B Simonton, J Bezney… - Biorxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pooled optical screens have enabled the study of cellular interactions, morphology, or
dynamics at massive scale, but have not yet leveraged the power of highly-plexed single …

Advances in the multimodal analysis of the 3D chromatin structure and gene regulation

MH Han, J Park, M Park - Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Recent studies have demonstrated that the three-dimensional conformation of the chromatin
plays a crucial role in gene regulation, with aberrations potentially leading to various …

Histone 4 lysine 20 tri-methylation: a key epigenetic regulator in chromatin structure and disease

A Agredo, AL Kasinski - Frontiers in Genetics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Chromatin is a vital and dynamic structure that is carefully regulated to maintain proper cell
homeostasis. A great deal of this regulation is dependent on histone proteins which have the …

Spectral neural approximations for models of transcriptional dynamics

G Gorin, M Carilli, T Chari, L Pachter - Biophysical Journal, 2022 - cell.com
The advent of high-throughput transcriptomics provides an opportunity to advance
mechanistic understanding of transcriptional processes and their connections to cellular …

Genome-wide tracing to decipher nuclear organization

V Flores, I Farabella, G Nir - Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Nuclear organization impacts gene expression activity and cell phenotype. Our current
understanding is mainly derived from ensemble-level sequencing studies that reflect the 3D …

Interchromosomal Colocalization with Parental Genes Is Linked to the Function and Evolution of Mammalian Retrocopies

Y Yan, Y Tian, Z Wu, K Zhang… - Molecular Biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Retrocopies are gene duplicates arising from reverse transcription of mature mRNA
transcripts and their insertion back into the genome. While long being regarded as …