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 …

Principles and challenges of modeling temporal and spatial omics data

B Velten, O Stegle - Nature Methods, 2023 - nature.com
Studies with temporal or spatial resolution are crucial to understand the molecular dynamics
and spatial dependencies underlying a biological process or system. With advances in high …

SCENIC+: single-cell multiomic inference of enhancers and gene regulatory networks

C Bravo González-Blas, S De Winter, G Hulselmans… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Joint profiling of chromatin accessibility and gene expression in individual cells provides an
opportunity to decipher enhancer-driven gene regulatory networks (GRNs). Here we present …

Fly Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult fruit fly

H Li, J Janssens, M De Waegeneer, SS Kolluru… - Science, 2022 - science.org
For more than 100 years, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has been one of the most
studied model organisms. Here, we present a single-cell atlas of the adult fly, Tabula …

Current challenges in understanding the role of enhancers in disease

JB Zaugg, P Sahlén, R Andersson… - Nature structural & …, 2022 - nature.com
Enhancers play a central role in the spatiotemporal control of gene expression and tend to
work in a cell-type-specific manner. In addition, they are suggested to be major contributors …

Cell-type-directed design of synthetic enhancers

II Taskiran, KI Spanier, H Dickmänken, N Kempynck… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Transcriptional enhancers act as docking stations for combinations of transcription factors
and thereby regulate spatiotemporal activation of their target genes. It has been a long …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell spatial multi-omics and deep learning dissect enhancer-driven gene regulatory networks in liver zonation

C Bravo Gonzalez-Blas, I Matetovici, H Hillen… - Nature Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
In the mammalian liver, hepatocytes exhibit diverse metabolic and functional profiles based
on their location within the liver lobule. However, it is unclear whether this spatial variation …

Single-nucleus multi-omic profiling of human placental syncytiotrophoblasts identifies cellular trajectories during pregnancy

M Wang, Y Liu, R Sun, F Liu, J Li, L Yan, J Zhang… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
The human placenta has a vital role in ensuring a successful pregnancy. Despite the
growing body of knowledge about its cellular compositions and functions, there has been …

scBasset: sequence-based modeling of single-cell ATAC-seq using convolutional neural networks

H Yuan, DR Kelley - Nature Methods, 2022 - nature.com
Single-cell assay for transposase-accessible chromatin using sequencing (scATAC) shows
great promise for studying cellular heterogeneity in epigenetic landscapes, but there remain …

Chromosome-level organization of the regulatory genome in the Drosophila nervous system

G Mohana, J Dorier, X Li, M Mouginot, RC Smith… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Previous studies have identified topologically associating domains (TADs) as basic units of
genome organization. We present evidence of a previously unreported level of genome …